Glad to hear you got it working!

By that 7 notes spanning, do you mean you would like the arpeggiator to raise/lower the pitch by semitones rather than full octave?

If that’s what you mean, that’s not possible using the arpeggiator breaks because they doesn’t actually define the pitch of the note. With arpeggiator breaks you just set the points where the arpeggiator happens in time and in what order it should arpeggiate the chord notes you send to Harmor via MIDI. The notes you send to Harmor defines the pitch.

Best regards!

Great response, thank you for taking the time to answer this so comprehensively. Both techniques work and are useful additions to my toolbox. I managed to create both versions you describe from your descriptions alone without reference to the files you provided, so great instructions, thank you. I then compared my arpeggiator breaks version with yours – and was pleased we both used the solution of wrapping around the bottom of the arpeggio to get to the top octave. Out of curiosity, if I had an arpeggio that spanned say 7 notes would there be a way to skip around, say the equivalent of “next two steps” or is that getting too clever? Should one just stick to midi input at that point?

I found that on the arpeggiator breaks version there’s definitely still clicking when it’s on the top octave (at the end of the second bar) but was able to get rid of it with a few ms smoothing so great to know about that function.

Of course I then realised that part b no longer sounds the same since it’s getting chords as the input… but for me the purpose here was not to recreate any particular sound but rather to understand and learn how all this stuff works and definitely mission accomplished, so thank you again!

Hi and many thanks, Hugo!

About that clicking: that’s a bit problematic yeah. Pure sine wave is really sensitive for abrupt changes.

I have two ideas: use the ‘Articulator output smoothing’ -knob to smoothen those sharp envelope shapes. You can find it just above the Envelope editor box, right beside that Articulator part selection menu. Set it to 40ms or more.

The downside though is that it makes the pitch changes kind of slide from one octave to another and that changes the character of this sound quite a bit.

Another idea is to forget using the Pitch envelope for arpeggio and use the Volume envelope and Arpeggiator breaks instead (check Harmor manual what are ‘Arpeggiator breaks’). This is a completely click-free method. The downside is that the arpeggio now only happens when you play CHORDS so you can’t play those ‘one-finger’ arpeggiator sounds anymore.

Here’s a Harmor preset for this. Download it and load it to your Harmor:

https://howtomakeelectronicmusic.com/downloads/arp-using-volume-envelope-arp-breaks.fst

Next, go to Harmor’s Piano Roll and draw following notes there: C5, C6, C7 (or import the score below):

https://howtomakeelectronicmusic.com/downloads/arp-score.fsc

You should hear exactly the same arpeggiator sequence as with using the Pitch envelope. But with no clicks.

Let me know if it worked!

Question: there’s a very strong click caused by the arpeggio in sound 1 when I emulate it – it’s also present in your recording. I tried removing it by changing the slope of the pitch shift rather than the snapped transitions, but that didn’t work. I tried using the volume envelope to scoop out the volume at the moment of transition but that didn’t work either (improved it but didn’t remove it). Do you have any ideas?

I’m so glad to hear that, many thanks! 😎

Hello Grand, and thanks for your feedback! I’m glad to hear your finding my tutorials useful! 😎

I’ll look into the drum/melody loops tutorial at some point for sure.

Also, there’s definitely no any age limit on music so go for it!

Best regards