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Bounce the chords to audio and chop them
Is panning hard left on one midi and hard right on one midi different than just taking ozone imager and putting it to max width?
From my experience messing around with panning and ozone imager, yes. You can easily determine this too by grouping the tracks you are panning and throwing ozone on (without any changes to width / stereo, just for visualization) and then comparing it to the visualization when a single track is set to max width.
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One thing that I haven't really been able to get a grasp on is chopping / processing vocals to use as a new element for a song. Here's an example of chopping and effects that I would like to know how to do. I haven't been able to find any plugins to make this "easy" - I have Little Alterboy and VocalSynth2 but they are only useful for adding extra voices (VocalSynth2 has a lot of other features but they all sound like shit in my honest opinion).
For chopping, I have seen the techniques of putting into a sampler and cutting to MIDI / drum pad, using a gate sidechained to another midi channel to determine when to open & close the gate (play the vocals or not) and the auto pan "trick", but none of these really sound great. There are also other effects besides just chopping that I would like to know (but having actual clean, good sounding chops is mostly what I am looking for).
Take some to do a sound design session where you are just going through acapellas and make chops that you can sample. Then when composing drop an auto tune + alterboy on there and experiment
So, I know I suppose a moderate? amount of music theory, and I like to create Progressive House music inspired by the likes of Deadmau5 and John Dahlback. I'm working in Logic Pro with Alchemy set to some nice plucky sounding synths, or a more brassy, long decay sounding harmonies.
I'll write a chord progression, like say something simple like I, iv, V but replace the V with something from modal interchange on the second loop of it. But I still hate it. It ends up sounding uninspired, or goofy, and does not get the emotional response I'm aiming for, and it all lands flat. I've tried inverting the chords or revoking them, and it helps, but...not enough--it's still missing something.
What can I do here? For a workable example, I really like the dark mysteriousness that Phrygian tends to have, and would like to create a progression that captures that sense--dark, but not dreadful or scary, just wondrously mysterious.