Liquid Notes

Creating a musical composition and making it sound right involves a lot of creativity. Liquid Notes can help you come up with new ideas for your composition, without tampering with your final product. The software can integrate in any digital audio workstations and it can route through the software instruments of your preferred sequencer, but it can also work as a standalone solution. It encourages you to experiment with chords and scales, to substitute them and alter their functions, add tensions and more, to boost the effect of your music.

The software is compatible with all modern Windows and Mac OS X platforms. Besides its core components, the setup wizard will install a series of third party tools and you must allow these changes, if you want Liquid Notes to work. The good news is that it takes up to a minute to complete the entire installation process.

The user interface displays a large number of knobs and vertical sliders, but its layout is quite simple and it should not take long to get used to it. You can use the software's sample composition, load your own MIDI files or work with a loaded composition, from your sequencer. Each set of knobs and sliders corresponds to a certain chord. You can rotate the knobs to substitute chords with new ones and to increase or decrease tension.

Liquid Notes will substitute chords with conventional or unconventional ones, depending on the direction in which you turn the knobs. The same will happen with tension knobs. The farther you turn a knob in a certain direction, the more notes will be added and vice versa. The vertical sliders can be used to change the basic cadence of the chords. You can set them to Tonic, Subdominant and Dominant. All chords are color coded, based on your changes. You can also reset individual chords to their original state with a single click.

Although there is not much to be said about Liquid Notes in terms of appearance, there is more than enough to be said about its functionality. Assuming you know a few things about editing musical compositions, you will find that Liquid Notes can be very helpful and that it can make your work easier. You can use it to analyze your compositions and manipulate multi-track arrangements, without affecting your musical style. The software can be used in a studio, to reharmonize compositions, in live performances, to correct any wrong notes, played with a MIDI keyboard or it can be used in standalone mode, on a computer or laptop.