Music Examples
The examples on this page are provided in MP3 streaming format (M3U), most of them use a 128kbit/s bandwith. They should work fine with iTunes, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player and most other popular audio plug-ins. As our products do not produce audio directly, the sound quality depends on the audio equipment you will be using. Most examples were rendered using NI Akoustik Piano, Garritan Personal Orchestra (GPO) and the internal software synthesizers of MacOS X and Windows.
1. Virtual Musicians |
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Harmony Navigator introduces an all-new and exciting technology: It simulates "Virtual Musicians" playing for you. Musical phrases are interpreted in real-time as realistic as possible (not a simple playback). This has nothing to do anymore with good old "accompaniment" software. The resulting quality is superior to everything else currently in existence.
Listen how it sounds when playing "live" on a palette with the mouse. Of course, you will need to click only once for each chord: D C# | C#aug F#sus4 | C#sus4 D | Fdim F#m | G D | A Bm | G A | D Bm | |
2. Fluid Performance within Seconds |
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When playing continous melodic runs, it becomes obvious that harmony is much more than just chords. Scales contribute to the sound by providing additional tones "between" the chords.
Fm Eb | Ab Bb | Db Ab | Eb7 C | Db Eb | Ab Gb | Dbmaj7 Eb7 | Ab Same phrase with different chords:Dm Bb7 | Dm Bb7 | Dm | Em7(b5) A7 | Dm Bb7 | Dm Bb7 | Dm A7(#5) | Dm A7 | (Examples rendered on Native Instruments "Acoustik Piano") |
3. Pattern Rendering Examples |
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Music is not just chords. You can bring progressions to real life by having them interpreted by a couple of virtual musicians playing together. Listen how pattern rendering may sound like (please apologize for the cheap Microsoft Windows Synth, however):
Party! BTW the same chords as above ... Ballad Song with a touch of Folk Heavy 9th chords resemble a dark and dense atmosphere (Examples rendered on Native Instruments "Acoustik Piano" + Microsoft Windows Synthesizer) |
4. Alternative Palettes |
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Palettes based on horizontal scales other than traditional major and minor bring up fresh and unusual connections between scales and chords. This way one achieves compelling and very personal sounding results, without the need to struggle with complicated theory anymore - What You See Is What You Get!
This example uses halftone-wholetone (primary) and harmonic-minor (secondary) scales as its horizontal basis. This leads to interesting chromatic chord movements, while the key A Minor is not too seriously affected: |
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