Hey everyone.  Looking for some reasons why YOU use the 5 available Scenes.  I understand how they work and a couple times when I was just familiarizing myself with them, I used them to to illustrate octave shifts in different scenes

However, I really cannot conceptualize how they are used in music production.  Up til now, I compose my songs in pattern mode, chain them when done, and then convert to a song.  I do not use a DAW.  It’s all Motif sequencing and editing. 

Hoping II can get a few ideas how scene use may help me..... Could not find any YouTube videos on this.  Many thanks. 

Rich

Well, being honest, neither have I!

I have used Motif extensively in a variety of professional settings - songwriting, creation of bed music for video (all of the background music in Alan Parsons’ Art & Science Of Sound Recording videos, amongst others). mood music libraries, and I too have yet to find a reason - for me - to use the Scenes.

This may indicate some deep musical flaw too, of course, but really it demonstrates that there are a great many ways to use this instrument and you are most certainly not compelled to know or use everything.

So, chacun à son goût I think.

It seems to me that scenes are there for live performance, letting you “rearrange” song playback on the fly.

I’ve seen similar features on so-called grooveboxes used for performing electronic dance music live.

Scenes are used to take memory of time and event related pictures if you will.
Let’s say in a composition I’m working on with pattern mode,
I then wish to transpose to a 4 and then 5 from the original 1 blues pattern.
The 1-4-5 blues sequence we’re all aware of.
I can record the 4 and the 5 into two scenes so with a push of a button,
the transpositions occur.

I agree with most posting on this topic and this is as far as I’ve gotten as well with Scenes.
In a nut shell,
and I use this term loosely,
Scenes take a snap shot memory
of how ever many bars/measures of music one wishes to memorize.
In songwriting it’s most useful.
Here’s some more about it at Motifator
Support.

This is a video I had to find where I stored it!
...about 2:20 into THIS video,
he speaks about Scenes.
The Bad One!  :)