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scale midi effect

Post by atom heart » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:28 am

I would like some more information about the midi scale effect..
I need to fully understand it 100% :)

plz help me out
thanks in advance

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Re: scale midi effect

Post by pepezabala » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:53 am

probably better explained in the manual, but let me try:

All notes come in at the bottom, rise up and then leave on the right side. They make their turn to the right side at the light and reset their value according to their absolute height.

Hmm, better I make a drawing so you can understand:

This makes that all notes played will get converted to the root note

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err, rtfm

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Re: scale midi effect

Post by atom heart » Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:00 am

lol
thanks for your time..
the manual is attempting to explain in ONE page!

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Re: scale midi effect

Post by Aequitas123 » Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:25 pm

try out the presets to get an idea as to how it works.

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Re: scale midi effect

Post by Tone Deft » Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:23 pm

x-axis - notes come in
y-axis - notes go out

undo all the dots in the matrix
draw a vertical bar with dots
only one note will pass through and it will trigger all the notes
undo all the dots in the matrix
draw a horizontal bar with the dots
all your keyboard notes will play but they will only trigger one note

simple, just play with it
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Re: scale midi effect

Post by Lephrenic » Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:56 pm

I didn't think you could draw a vertical bar in Scale.
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Re: scale midi effect

Post by atom heart » Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:31 pm

Tone Deft wrote:x-axis - notes come in
y-axis - notes go out

undo all the dots in the matrix
draw a vertical bar with dots
only one note will pass through and it will trigger all the notes
undo all the dots in the matrix
draw a horizontal bar with the dots
all your keyboard notes will play but they will only trigger one note

simple, just play with it
thank you !
just one question ..
if you count from the lower left square to the highest left , there are 13 squares.
i just can t figure out what these are

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Re: scale midi effect

Post by Tone Deft » Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:38 pm

the pattern matches the notes on a piano keyboard, black keys intermixed with white keys.
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Re: scale midi effect

Post by atom heart » Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:29 pm

Tone Deft wrote:the pattern matches the notes on a piano keyboard, black keys intermixed with white keys.
shouldn t it be 12?

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Re: scale midi effect

Post by ReasonliveUSER » Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:06 am

do worry about that 13th box, it just the root note repeating again. don't even worry about the 12 notes (unless your in the chromatic scale (all 12 notes). only worry about the 7 notes/boxes of the scale you want to use typically a Major or minor. to set each one up is simple. the easiest major scale is C. use C as you root and count 7 white keys or steps to to the next C. the easiest minor is an "a natural" start from a then count 7 steps to the next a(I use lower case "a" bcuz its a minor scale) now each time you change the root key it will form the harder scales (the ones with black keys) you can go to http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/ to get the notes of scales and chord pulled up in an interactive keyboard. I use this one on my OS X dash board some I don't have to be online to do this. http://www.mudcube.com/widget/
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Re: scale midi effect

Post by atom heart » Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:34 am

ReasonliveUSER wrote:do worry about that 13th box, it just the root note repeating again. don't even worry about the 12 notes (unless your in the chromatic scale (all 12 notes). only worry about the 7 notes/boxes of the scale you want to use typically a Major or minor. to set each one up is simple. the easiest major scale is C. use C as you root and count 7 white keys or steps to to the next C. the easiest minor is an "a natural" start from a then count 7 steps to the next a(I use lower case "a" bcuz its a minor scale) now each time you change the root key it will form the harder scales (the ones with black keys) you can go to http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/ to get the notes of scales and chord pulled up in an interactive keyboard. I use this one on my OS X dash board some I don't have to be online to do this. http://www.mudcube.com/widget/

allright now i got it!
thanks a lot

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