In the Arpeggio Pane, you can customize the play order, volume, and gate settings of individual notes, create rests, and experiment with different patterns, with indicators showing active notes.

Now that you are comfortable using a single Arp, we will add more Arpeggiators to give your creations depth, variety, and color. To open a new Arpeggiator, click the + button labelled "Open New Arp."

Creators need the ability to play the notes of a selected chord along with the arpeggiated notes and chord patterns in real time. This feature, called Playthrough, combines harmony chords with the melodies and solos created using arpeggios.

We will now explore the advanced controls and settings for individual notes within an Arpeggiator. Click the expand icon next to the note area labeled “Note Pattern Settings.”

The Pattern Sequencer enables you to arrange and customize individual notes of a chord into rhythmic patterns and sequences for arpeggiation. You can adjust the controls and settings of these individual note patterns and sequences in real-time.

Two mode selections are available, allowing you to change the playing cycles for the individual note flavors. The first mode is Chain Mode. When a note has the Chain/Alternate icon selected, the Arpeggiator will play all active notes within the pane before moving to the next Note Order position.

The second mode is Alternate Mode. When the Chain/Alternate icon is deselected, the arpeggiator will play only one note step within the expanded note area in descending order, before moving to the next higher note order position.

You can take selected notes in an arpeggio and play them simultaneously in multiple patterns and orders, adding another layer of variety and color to your creative work. You can toggle between arpeggiations and full chord patterns in real-time.

For full chord playing, the note value in the first pattern defaults to the value set in the parent pane. Deactivated or muted notes will not be played as part of the full chord.

Transposition generally means shifting the pitch of a note by a specific interval value. Previously, we played single-pitch arpeggios where individual notes were played in patterns and sequences within the pitch range selected in the Arpeggiator.

Remember, it is the arpeggio that is being transposed. If you want to add energy, movement, and variety to your arpeggio, follow these steps.

GarageBand or any quality DAW will have drums, percussion and effect sounds mapped to specific MIDI notes in the lower octave ranges. In most cases, these DAWs conform to the General Midi Standard for mapping drums, percussion, and effect sounds

Playing all the notes, or a selection of notes of a chord, simultaneously allows you to play multiple Drum instrument sounds simultaneously. This also applies to any individual instrument supported in your DAW. Remember: You can toggle between Arpeggio and Full Chord selection for Beat creation in real-time.

Drum and percussion instrument sounds are triggered by playing the individual notes that are mapped to each sound. To complement Arpeggios and Full chords generating your beats, you may also trigger, in real time, any drum or percussive sound, or combination of sounds, by selecting a key or keys on the virtual piano keyboard as shown below.

We will now look at a simple set up to create inspiring drum and percussion beats with a single arpeggiator using transpositions.

Arpeggios have been used extensively throughout the history of music. All the classic composers used them in their music. In the modern era, arpeggios are ubiquitous across all genres of music. Great pianists, guitarists, and wind and string instrumentalists incorporated arpeggios into their performances to demonstrate solo virtuosity.

In most instances, the whole band will play the same "chord" together. The melody can be played by a single instrument or sung by one or more singers. Even though all instruments are generally playing the same chords together, it doesn't mean that all the chords sound the same for all instruments.

The setup process is straightforward for a Windows PC running a DAW such as Cubase, Ableton, PreSonus Studio One, FL Studio, Pro Tools, Reason, MOTU, Reaper, Mixcraft, Bitwig, Magix Samplitude, and others.

We will show how to configure loopMIDI to enable you to route individual Arpeggiators, Chord selections, and virtual instruments in ChordWalk to individual virtual instrument channels of your DAW.

When “MIDI From” is selected on an individual track in Live, the Virtual loopback ports will be displayed for selection and assignment.