This motif is built around a 12 Bar Blues Progression with a Walking Bass Accompaniment Style. It also uses a Chromatic Melody Constraint so that the melody can have non-scale (non diatonic) notes. The Randomize Velocity Setting (AUv3 Only) is used to randomly vary the dynamics of the notes being played. Try changing the Swing Rhythm for a more Jazzy feel. Also try using Melody Triplets or Melody 16th Notes, for different melody rhythms. Send the accompaniment to a bass instrument, the melody to a piano or guitar, and the 3rd track (if enabled) to a rhythm guitar or a pad. 

Walking Bass 

This is an example motif that can be used for an EDM (Electronic Dance Music) track. In this motif the Bass Accomp Style with the Even option is used. This will generate a bass rhythm on the even beats of the bar. The odd beats can be filled with a bass drum beat. The Melody Harmony is set to Root for more richness in the melody. The Root option is selected which means that the harmony note generated will be the root note for the chord of the bar. The Melody Frequency is high so there are more melody notes in the track. Try it with the melody going to a synth lead instrument, the accompaniment going to a synth bass instrument and the 3rd track (if enabled) going to a pad.

EDM 

This is an example motif that can be used for a New Age style track. In this motif the Arpeggio w/Bass Accomp Style is used. This accompaniment is an arpeggio that has a bass note (the root note of the chord) on the first beat of the bar and lasts for the whole bar, providing an anchor for the bar. The Melody Constraint is an Every Other Arp, which means that on one bar there will be an arpeggio and in another bar there will not. The Melody Rest Every N Bars is set to 4, for a certain phrasing in the melody. Randomize Velocity is On to enhance the dynamics of the track. Make sure you turn on the 3rd track and send it to a Pad instrument to complement the Piano.

New Age  

This is an example motif that can be used to create Ambient tracks. In this motif the Note Sustain Mult Bar Accomp Style  is used with the Tonic Drone 1-5 option selected. Let's cut through this jargon. The Note Sustain Mult Bar generates chord accompaniments that sustain notes for one or more bars until the note of the chord changes. The Tonic Drone 1-5 option, replaces the root note and the fifth note of the chord by the Tonic root and fifth of the scale. This results in a very slow changing chord which is only varying the third note. The Accomp Voice Leading option is set to On, so that contiguous chords use the same notes as possible. The Melody is constrained to be a Chord Triad note, for a harmonic and stable melody. The Melody Note Frequency is set low. The BPM is set to 40 to establish a relaxing mood.  Send the Melody to a piano instrument  and the Accompaniment to a warm pad instrument, or all the channels to a pad instrument. Try the different settings of the Note Sustain Mult Bar Accomp Style for different results. Make sure you loop the motif several times and just relax and float with the music.

Ambient 

This is an example motif that can be used for a soundtrack. In this motif the Chord Sustain Accomp Style is used. For the Melody Constraint the Voice Lead Arp option is used. In a Voice Leading Arpeggio  different inversions of an arpeggio are used so that consecutive arpeggiated chords play as many of the same notes as possible. Melody Triplets are turned on so the arpeggio is now triplets and not 1/8 notes. A chord progression in Dminor is programmed. This motif sounds great using a violin instrument for the melody, a piano for the accompaniment and a string section for the third track.

Classical 

This is an example motif that can be used for playing guitar instruments. In this motif the Accomp Style is the Chord Accompaniment with the All option selected, meaning a chord will be played on every 1/8 beat of the motif. The Accomp Guitar Voicing is turned On. With this option On, the chord notes that are selected resemble the ones that you play when playing the chord on the guitar. The Melody is constrained to User Defined notes, which in this case are 1,3,6,7. These are the relative notes of the scale of the motif (in CMaj they would be C, E, A, B). Sometimes constraining the melody to a few notes can create some very nice melodies. Play this motif sending the melody and accompaniment to 2 different guitar instruments (acoustic, electric or electric with distortion). Try constraining the melody to fewer notes or different notes to get different results. 

Guitar 

This is an example motif that uses 2 Accompaniment Sequences. They are programmed in the Accomp Seq Accomp Style: Seq 0 and Seq 1. Seq 0 is played on the odd bars and Seq 1 is played on the even bars. The Melody is programmed to be a Voice Leading Arpeggio.  Since this specific motif was meant to be played by guitars, the Accomp Guitar Voicing is turned On.  With this option On, the chord notes that are selected resemble the ones that you play when playing the chord on the guitar.  A simple programmed chord progression is used, which gets transformed by the Accompaniment Sequences to produce a tune that takes you to a summer a long time ago 🎸. 

Accompaniment Sequences 

This is an example of a motif created with an Arpeggio Seq Accomp Style. This arpeggio sequence has the Tonic option turned Off.  When the Tonic option is turned Off, the sequence numbers of the arpeggio represent the notes relative to the chord that's being played on a bar. The Accompaniment will be the highlighted part in this track. For the Melody not to be too intrusive, a Melody Seq with one note per bar with a Melody Constraint of Chord Triad and a Melody Rest Every 4 Bars is used. Also, the velocity of the Melody is brought down. Play the Accompaniment on a fast string ensemble instrument, the melody on a violin or flute and the third track on a string ensemble instrument.  A familiar chord progression is used:  Winter is Coming!

Arpeggio 

This is an example of a motif created with a Tonic Arpeggio Seq Accomp Style. This arpeggio sequence has the Tonic option turned On.  When the Tonic option is turned On, the sequence numbers of the arpeggio represent the notes relative to the tonic chord of the motif, in this case Db Mixolydian. The Accompaniment will be the highlighted part in this track. The Melody will be the background, so a User Defined Melody constraint with only the root note of the chord is used and then 5th Harmony is added at 100%. The Melody Seq is set to only play on the 1st beat of the bar and hold for the whole bar. The result is a Power Chord (1-5) that is held through the bar. Play this motif sending the Accompaniment to a lead distortion guitar instrument, and the Melody and the 3rd Track to a guitar instrument. The chord progression is from a well known rock song:  Rock On 🤘🔥🎸!

Tonic Arpeggio 

This is an example of a motif created with the Voice Lead Arp Melody Constraint.  In a Voice Leading Arpeggio, different inversions of an arpeggio are used so that consecutive arpeggiated chords play as many of the same notes as possible. For the accompaniment a Chord & Bass Accomp Style with an Extra Bass every bar is used. The accompaniment can be played on a piano or guitar instrument, so the Guitar Voicing option is used. A famous rock band's hit chord progression was picked to better illustrate the effect. Did you feel the temperature drop when you played it  ❄️▶️? 🙃

Voice Leading Arpeggio 

This motif uses the Chord & Bass Accomp Style with the Vary option selected to generate an impressionist piano piece. In this accompaniment, the chords have variations from the basic chord. The Melody Frequency is set low, to 20%. You might want to turn on Randomize Velocity if you want to add dynamics to the piece. Piano Motifs makes it easy to channel your inner Satie .

Impressionism 

This motif uses the Chromatic Melody Constraint. When you use this setting  the melody can have non-diatonic notes, notes that aren't in the scale of the motif. In this motif a Chord Syncopated Accomp Style, Melody 16th Notes, and Melody Root Harmony are used. The Melody Note Frequency is set to 80% to get a good number of melody notes. Add some jazz drums to enhance that jazzy feel 🎹 👐

Chromatic 

This motif creates a track that uses polyrhythm. The melody will have groups of 3 notes (triplets) and the accompaniment will have groups of 2 notes (1/8 notes) . The melody uses a Voice Leading Arpeggio. In Voice Leading, different inversions of an arpeggio are used so that consecutive arpeggiated chords play as many of the same notes as possible. Melody Triplets are turned  On, so that you get the groups of 3 notes for the polyrythm. For the Accompaniment an arpeggio sequence is used to obtain a repetitive 2 note pattern. A programmed chord progression with borrowed chords (using the Alt Scale Chord option) is also used.  And there it is, your own Philip Glass style composition.

Polyrhythm 

In this motif the Hemiola rhythm is present in the melody. Even though the Time Signature for the motif is 3/4, the melody alternates between a 6/8 rhythm and a 3/4 rhythm. This is obtained by programming 2 different Melody Sequences. The first one (Seq0) consists of 2 groups of 3 1/8 notes and the second one (Seq1) consists of 3 1/4 notes. The Accomp Style is a Chord Syncopated Accomp Style, where some chords are played in the off (weak) beats. The Melody is constrained to be just notes of the Chord Triad. Also Open Voicing is used for the Accompaniment for a fuller and richer chord sound. The chord progression used comes from a famous musical, do you recognize it?

Hemiola 

This motif is based on a very simple and common chord progression (I-vi-IV-V) played at a slow tempo with a simple accompaniment which is just relaxing and pleasant. The accompaniment is a Syncopated Chord Accomp Style (Chord Syncop) using the Power Chord setting On (only the root and fifth notes of the chord are played). An Accomp Extra Bass every 2 bars is used to improve the chord depth. The melody is constrained with the User Defined setting using the Chord option: the notes are constrained to  be the root, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 7th of the chord being played. Third and Sixth Harmony is set at 50% to add melody texture. 

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