Posted by: NoteBender
Simulating Acoustic Piano Comping - 07/26/14 08:46 AM
When I simulate a regular acoustic piano doing accompaniment with a walking bass line with my left hand and chords with my right hand on my 61 key board; I select the Sound I want, turn off the Split, and drop the sound by one octave so the voicing I want is right of center.
Now if I want to see if I can get similar comping using the Split with some of the auto accompaniment features, I see a few hurdles. First the simplest, to be able to play the root note and its octave from the farthest most left key on the board “C” with an octave C up to and including B and its upper octave B; I need to move my split point so the Upper board starts at C4 (or the 3rd C from the left on a standard 61 key board).
After this I see choosing a suitable piano Sound, lowering the Lower section by 3 octaves from +2 to -1, and initially turning off most if not all the accomp so that I have Drum/Perc only.
Since I'm new at this, I just wondered what others may have experienced in simulating an acoustic piano doing comping.
Now if I want to see if I can get similar comping using the Split with some of the auto accompaniment features, I see a few hurdles. First the simplest, to be able to play the root note and its octave from the farthest most left key on the board “C” with an octave C up to and including B and its upper octave B; I need to move my split point so the Upper board starts at C4 (or the 3rd C from the left on a standard 61 key board).
After this I see choosing a suitable piano Sound, lowering the Lower section by 3 octaves from +2 to -1, and initially turning off most if not all the accomp so that I have Drum/Perc only.
Since I'm new at this, I just wondered what others may have experienced in simulating an acoustic piano doing comping.