doing chords & progressions the bitwig way

yo, im back bringing some tips and tricks for how you can utilize some bitwig tools to approach chord progressions in a different way. got any tips to share? drop it in the comments!
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Hi, I'm Polarity and do music at home in my small bedroom studio. I record regularly sessions and publish them here. I also broadcast live on twitch from time to time. // Hallo ich heiße Polarity und mache Musik hier in Berlin in meinem kleinen Schlafzimmer. Ich zeichne regelmässig Sessions auf und veröffentliche sie hier. Wer möchte kann das auch live auf Twitch verfolgen, wo ich öfters Live sende!

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[technoisbeautiful]

HOLY....I watched literally until 0:35 and had to rewind. I never used the + to add anything else on a new track than some VST. Those presets are extremely helpful! xD Thank you for making my life better in such a short time hahaha

[berniehcc]

Wow 😳so many new ideas 🥰🥳🚀thanks Polarity 🙏

[hrrld]

You are doing so many great things recently. Thank you, it's all very inspiring and thought provoking. Here is my thought after watching this video: Many of these techniques lead to a lot of parallel voicings, which have their appeal, but are not always what you want. I think a cool follow-on here would be to record the notes generated by these techniques onto a separate track, and then to adjust the voicings (by inversion, or spreading/condensing the notes for more or less open voicings). Any progression can create many different feelings with different voicings.

A more challenging open question is how to generate nice inverted voicings automatically. Would love to know your thoughts on doing this (!)

Thanks again, stay rad.

[StefanSchlott]

Packed! 15 minutes of video, and I'll spend hours of testing (and digesting 😉) all the infos... Thanks!

[Neumah]

Apart from the drums I'm getting serious 80's commercial vibes from those first chords.

[mudia]

Great video as usual!! I have some music theory plugins but using Bitwig integrated devices often is more natural as handling them is easier (saving, editing, etc)

[marcelfrehse]

one of the greatest tutorials ever about chords. there is one question, the pitch-12 chords penultimate tutorial. you say it creates minor chords on the black keys only. but when i look on the multi note in which you entered the steps of 0, +16, +7, -24 and +11, for me this means the following: it is a major 7th chord plus bass. because : 0 = root, +16 = major 3rd one oct higher, +7 = regular 7th, -24 = bass and then the +11 .. = that is a major 7th, isn't it? because 0-4-7-11 = 4 steps = major. otherwise the minor 7th would be 0-4-7-10. so what you do in my opinion is a maj/min7th instead of a true minor 7th, because the minor 7th is 0-3-7-10. i am sure you understand what i mean and i just want to be sure i got you with what you doing in this tutorial?

[benhughes]

When using the Strum, is there a way to adjust track delay, so that last note of strum lands on the beat?

[ИванНикитин-чб]

Why Bitwig just have no chord painter in piano roll?

[sygboe]

Great tutorial, did you get your new haircut in the end?