Push 2: How to get out of scale mode?

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The Derelict
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Push 2: How to get out of scale mode?

Post by The Derelict » Thu Jun 15, 2023 3:34 am

Hi all, I bought a used Push 2 yesterday and I'm trying to figure out how to get out of scale mode.
I loaded up a Battery kit but the Push still displays the scale I set for the instrument on the other track and I have to select the correct octave to play the drum sounds and then it skips every other sound, i.e. pad 1 sound 1, pad 2 sound 3, pad 3 sound 5 and so on and I can't get it to hit at full velocity no matter how hard I hit the pads. How do I change this?

Thanks.

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Re: Push 2: How to get out of scale mode?

Post by Tarekith » Thu Jun 15, 2023 5:03 am

Just press the Scale button again?

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Re: Push 2: How to get out of scale mode?

Post by The Derelict » Thu Jun 15, 2023 5:26 am

No I tried that already but that just switches between "track view" (not sure if that's what it's called) and the scale selection screen. I did figure out that setting the layout to Sequent and changing from In Key to Chromatic makes things a little more workable but I'm hoping there's a far better way than this.

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Re: Push 2: How to get out of scale mode?

Post by dest4b » Thu Jun 15, 2023 12:10 pm

Press scale.. and look on the display where you can select the scales .. and specially look to the left lower corner on your push screen ;) And Push da button !
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Re: Push 2: How to get out of scale mode?

Post by hellnegative_ » Thu Jun 15, 2023 1:52 pm

Build a drum rack with external instrument plug-ins directed at battery. Save that with battery into a group to save as a template.

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Re: Push 2: How to get out of scale mode?

Post by Tarekith » Thu Jun 15, 2023 2:32 pm

dest4b wrote:
Thu Jun 15, 2023 12:10 pm
Press scale.. and look on the display where you can select the scales .. and specially look to the left lower corner on your push screen ;) And Push da button !
Doh, I misunderstood what the OP is asking. Yes, this is the way, just press the Chromatic button in the lower left corner.

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Re: Push 2: How to get out of scale mode?

Post by The Derelict » Thu Jun 15, 2023 3:51 pm

So I came across a video that explained how to set it up. You open a drum rack and drag Battery onto the C1 pad then open the I/O section and set Receive to all notes. From there it's like Hellnegative wrote, group it and save as a preset. This way it's just a drum rack and uses the 16 pads on the bottom left of the Push. For some reason if you just drag Battery onto a MIDI track Ableton treats it like a melodic instrument, perhaps that's because you can also use a MIDI keyboard to play the drum notes but that didn't really register until now :D

Thanks for the help all.

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