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Odesi by Mixed In Key. Anyone else try it out?
« on: January 09, 2016, 12:58:48 am »
I have recently purchased Odesi by Mixed In Key to help me learn chord progressions better. I've never had schooling for music or anything so I'm thinking this will help.

I was curious what others, maybe more experienced users, think about it. I like how easy and quick it is to bounce something down to MIDI and throw it in my DAW.

Post your likes and dislikes please. Thanks.

**Here is a link if anyone hasn't heard of it yet.**
http://odesi.mixedinkey.com/

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Re: Odesi by Mixed In Key. Anyone else try it out?
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2016, 10:20:14 am »
It seems like a good tool for beginners who don't have a complete grasp of diatonic chord progressions and roman numeral notation.

It does however look like it's highly limiting if you're planning to rely on it as your primary source for creating chord progressions. The reason why is because a I-IV-V chord can be played in many different inversions and while this doesn't necessarily change the roman numerals it DOES change the sound and the voice leading. All the chords in the overview video are in your basic root position which sounds incredibly formulaic and boring. There is no voice leading at all whatsoever or use of inversions.

When the bassline gets added in the video it is once again simply following the root position of every chord. This is limiting your ability to create melodic basslines because you don't need to have just one note playing per chord.

It also doesn't take into account (at least from the video I saw) more advanced composition concepts such as modal interchange, modulations, counterpoint and undiatonic chord progressions. It's impossible to create counterpoint using all root chords.

Overall I would say use it as a tool to get familiar with very basic diatonic chord progressions. Once you're done playing with it and are ready to move on I would ditch it ASAP.
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Re: Odesi by Mixed In Key. Anyone else try it out?
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2016, 03:25:38 pm »
I think the video was just showing us something basic and popular. To me it seems like there are a ton of possibilities, but im also a beginner in this category. I agree this wont be something I will use further down the road, but for now I think it will help me. Appreciate the review. Thanks
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Re: Odesi by Mixed In Key. Anyone else try it out?
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2016, 06:22:07 pm »
Well, I don't know what to think about this software, I've seen the video but unfortunately there's no a trial version available, but until now I'm fine with the possibilities of the Xfer Cthulhu and Ezkeys.

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Re: Odesi by Mixed In Key. Anyone else try it out?
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2016, 11:34:05 pm »
It's kinda neat to mess around with, but if you have an understanding of music theory it really doesn't do anything besides give you ideas for various rhythms (which you could also do on your own by making those chords and experimenting). If you don't ever plan on really going deep into theory and live in the piano roll, I can see it as a good buy but I don't see myself using it in the future except as an educational tool for teaching theory or helping with ear training.

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Re: Odesi by Mixed In Key. Anyone else try it out?
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2016, 12:37:52 am »
Does this kind of miss the whole point of producing your own music? Seems a little like painting by numbers if you get my point.

Although saying that looks like a useful tool for newbs like me to get their head around chords progressions etc  ;)


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Re: Odesi by Mixed In Key. Anyone else try it out?
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2016, 05:40:48 pm »
Does this kind of miss the whole point of producing your own music? Seems a little like painting by numbers if you get my point.

Although saying that looks like a useful tool for newbs like me to get their head around chords progressions etc  ;)

Im using it more as a starting point. Ive made a few chord progressions so far and once I get the MIDI file into Ableton I usually change some of it up. Could be helpful if you hit that producer wall.

And I agree with another user, it needs a trial version. However for me, $49 wasn't a whole lot of money for what I feel I can learn from it. Remember, I've never taken music lessons or anything so, from my perspective its cheap.

Thx for all input.
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