freeze block

[Clean Reals]

if, for example, in EZKEYS the key in the verse key is Dm and the chorus key is Gm.

I have EZ set to Dm > I create a bunch of blocks > Paste from the browser > and I see the chords are based on Dm. So now in the chorus I want the same type of chord changes but in Gm > I chage EZKeys to Gm and it works. But how do i freeze just that block? becuz as soon as I chage Key back to Dm that block also changes. I need to preserve the key changes of that block in Gm while song is in Dm

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[jazzmandan]

I think this is on the wish list for EZKeys 2. Otherwise, you have to do it in your DAW with separate tracks. Unless someone can tell us both something else.

[Henrik Ekblom]

What you can do is to have the song to be in dm, but the chord blocks can be transposed to gm. Select all chord blocks, select Properties… and Transpose the blocks to the wanted key. If you decide to change the entire song (on the main Key selector below the track), say to E minor, the entire song will be transposed, and the chorus will be changed to A minor.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Clean Reals]

am i missing something? it seems the key choices in Set Properties is dictated by the main key set in transport ???

[Henrik Ekblom]

The general idea is that you transpose a certain part of the song from the other. Say the chorus is going to be 2 notes higher than the verse. You have the main Key set to C, and your verse and chorus is therefore in C to start with. You select the chorus blocks and raise them +2 (they will now be in D).
If you now change the project key to E for example, the chorus will maintain the state that it should be raised +2 from the rest of the song, and will now be set to F#.

Does that answer your question?

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Clean Reals]

Does this approach work for every possible combination of keys or a limited set of related keys

[Henrik Ekblom]

You can transpose up to +6 or down to -5. With combination of the transpose functionality (found in the same properties box) you can transpose the block to all notes.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Clean Reals]

what if i am using a blues scale ? what would i choose in ezkeys for key + major minor?

[Henrik Ekblom]

The key of the song doesn’t have anything to do with what scale you are using. Generally – if you song is written in C major for example, it doesn’t imply if it’s a blues scale, a diatonic scale etc. It just states that the “home” of your chord progression is in C. The key selector is used to transpose all notes to the correct chord – it doesn’t alter any chords (turn a 3 note chord to a 7th chord for example).

EZkeys doesn’t have an option to set the scale. If you drop a blues MIDI block on the song track and add a 7 to a chord – it will try to play that chord as a 7th chord…

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

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