Raft Sound have released Motif as a plugin. Motif is said to be the fastest way to create a unique melody, build progressions. It’s available at the intro price of €59.00, increasing to €99.00 after the promotion. The offer ends September 30th.
Creating melodies for different scales is fancy, what about emotions? Motif lets you select either a scale or an emotion for any key and uses a smart algorithm within that scale to create a unique melodic idea. You can re-click on the scale or emotion until you like a melody and call it a day or create a progression to further build on the melody into a song.
Motif includes one main (center) and two side layers (low-left & hi-right octaves).
One layer may seem enough when creating melodies but the harmonic possibilities available with more voices in addition to time variances delivers sonics far greater than the parts alone. The time variation allows differing step lengths between the main melody and lower or higher step lengths, for example allowing for faster melody with slower lower octave part – just like different parts in a piece of music.
All layer generators are powered with cascade probability algorithms where you can adjust how frequently each layer “should” play. New version brings smart randomisation with knob control to create countless varieties of the root melody. With smart randomisation, all results are more musical and natural. You can even riff with Motif for hours now utilising real time-randomisation.
Rast Sound super-charged the new version with the versatile compose section, ready to flourish your ideas. It comes with intelligent musical modes, smart persistence and proximity parameters, degree and length control on each progression slot.
Motif comes with 3 different intelligent macro modes to trigger different melody/music generation processes.
- Harmonic Mode will create a unique melody for the main layer and adjust other layers to the essential harmonies of the main layer, designed for creating more streamlined multi voice music.
- Multi Mode creates unique melodies for each layer, great for complex sounding tunes.
- Solo Mode lets only one layer play at a given time, just like a virtuoso.
Motif is highly flexible with lengths and offers two different length numbers; you can adjust a loop length and a total length for each progression slot. You can select shorter loops to create more dancey melodies or longer lengths for more cinematic/performative melodies (up to 16 measures).
You can extend the progression by sliding right up to 6 slots, assign separate degrees for each slot. Persistence will help you define how similar each slot is and proximity will increase the stability of the melody.
New version comes with a full blown scale editor. Now you can customize your scale, edit all notes, select a unique base triad and adjust triad percentage. This percentage defines the probability of these notes to appear in generated musical ideas. You can also shrink the scale with the slider.
Adjust all parameters, dive into details to shape the sound to your taste. We added a unique 2 way filter and speed control to juice up the possibilities.
Empower your own sounds with Motif, just drag and drop the current idea to your DAW. Anywhere from the midi screen that display the notes, click, drag and drop.
Motif will play in sync with your DAW, locked to project bpm. Just play your DAW and you will see the engine start playing and going through the melodic progression.
Motif is available to PC and Mac users (VST3 and AU). An AAX version will be available in October.
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