Good morning everybody!
First of all I'm a total noob, I know it already so there's no need you tell me that

anyway, I was watching a vid on youtube about soundtracks scoring and I noticed a producer who used a pre-registrated scale of notes I mean how can I call that, is that a loop or what?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AyswacaFd0

here's the video, at minute about 2:10, take a look at that harp scale, how is that called? Loop? I mean he's not pressing every single note on the midi keyboard to get that scale, with a single click he got an entire scale. Another example of what I'm talking about is at minute about 12:34 , there's a lovely percussion sound that he gets by pressing 1 button only of his midi keyboard, all of my samples don't have this "magical" 1 click scale lol this is why I wondered what is it exactly... where can I find some of those, or did he just recorded it by himself so that he can use them whenever he wants/needed?

Thanks for any help!

Regards,
Musicalista

 

Are you referring to a sequence? If so then a lot of VSTs incorporate sequencers which you can use to quickly put together a melody. Basically you set the value of the note by specifying a set number of semitones up or down for each step and some other details such as the velocity (intensity), etc. There's also something called an arpeggio which divides a note or chord into smaller note values and plays them in a sequence either down, up, up/down, etc. Or are you talking about glissando which is a glide from pitch to another pitch? If it's glissando then he's using an articulation from a library.

 

Uhm, not sure I mean I wrote the exact minute of what I'm talking about in that video, anyway he presses "harp gliss Dmaj" so "gliss" makes me think about:

so as you stated it must be an articulation. Do you or someone else know what libraries have got this kind of articulation? The harp one is great!