Mario,

This is great. Super tips. I think midi is under-explored for a lot of people.

As one tip, I like to click the "other" drop down on style picker and sort by styles with midi super tracks. There is gold in them there hills for folks who like to roll their own.

Your idea on markers is solid.

In "producer-think" there is an X axis and a Y axis. It is a lot like "Agile" thinking in programming sprints.

Along the X axis you think progression (literally) but also progression in the sense of time, when does V 2 come in for example, and is it, for example, only half as long as V1?

See screenshot 1.

On the Y axis, you have all the rows of parts that will attach to the X axis.

When does that guitar fill come in? And why? Do you need it? Should it be a mandolin instead?

The X axis and Y axis decision are equally important and lie at the heart of arrangement.

I hope we can have more pros on board here share their tricks for building the house, so to speak, brick by brick.

I am glad we started this.

First Screenshot is X axis, second is Y axis.


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