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I just got a midi keyboard right now, but I love the big wall of seasick strumming chord sound. How do i do this without guitar.

I figure I can use the pitch bend wheel for the umm well pitch bending, but as far as getting the rhytmic strumming sound, IDK how to do that with just a keyboard. I was curious to know how ya'll would approach it.

Play fast?

you can mimic it kinda similarly if you just roll your hand(s) from left to right when playing chords, sweeping across to build the chord from one note to many notes, it won't be difficult to do slowly at the least.
plus yeah if you can configure your pitch wheel to bend within the range of just one or two semitones it'd do cool tremolo bar tonez.
so if you like have your right hand rolling from left to right playing chords and using the left hand to pitch bend them slowly as they're coming in it would probably gaze pretty hard depending on what kinda patch you're running it into.
and of course add some delays and verbs to make it sound more frantic as the chords come in.

^If you can make it fast enough, an arpeggiator would work better than the hand rolling, no?

When I'm playing keys I start my chain with a tremolo type of effect.

I used to be just a straight up trem but I've started setting up an EHX 8-Step Program to control the dry mix on my Walrus Audio Descent. The reverb signal continues unaffected but the dry signal can get a nice choppy rhythmic element going on. and using the 8-Step I can get rhythms that are a little sore complex than the on-off chop of a tremolo.

futuresailors wrote:^If you can make it fast enough, an arpeggiator would work better than the hand rolling, no?

yeah, it sort of depends what you're going for though, an arpeggiator will probably sound a little mechanical for gaze, and i meant rolling so that the number of notes is increasing rather than them being cycled through so i dunno if an arp would cop that. it's worth just experimenting i guess.

super fast decay times with an arpeggio and maybe some tremolo ?

Rolling from low to high/high to low does a pretty good job of emulating the way you play guitar but if you just play the individual notes of a chord slighty out of time you can get a similar sound/feel but some interesting changes to the sound that you'd struggle to get on guitar.

Le Strum: https://www.tindie.com/products/hotchk1 ... oller-kit/

i would recommend going into the midi piano roll view, selecting only the notes you want and strumming using the mouse

Talk to Brian from ss/BS. He works the keys pretty spectacularly in Cymbals Eat Guitars.

nevada wrote:Le Strum: https://www.tindie.com/products/hotchk1 ... oller-kit/

wow

nevada wrote:Le Strum: https://www.tindie.com/products/hotchk1 ... oller-kit/

That's neat. Thanks! Might actually use that FB01 for something now.

Lymbyc System does this really well. Dude uses some old Horner Clavinet that sound a lot like guitar.

jrmy wrote:Talk to Brian from ss/BS. He works the keys pretty spectacularly in Cymbals Eat Guitars.

this. watch their kexp performance and take notes.