Plug-In Automation Question: Set Sequencer Scale in PALLAS?
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2025 7:16 pm
Hello!
I'm using the OSCiLLOT / Bengal / Pallas suite and I seem to notice something in Pallas:
I can't automate Pallas's sequencer scale root note. This means that I must double check that one particular setting before every performance and switch the scale root to match the Live set's scale. The Scale "type" can be automated (Major, Relative Minor and so forth) -- but not the Root Note.
I'm not sure that selecting a Root Note and a Scale together forces the sequencer to conform to that scale, but once I set the notes on the various interval controllers, those seem to stay as they are when the set is closed and re-opened.
Since many other aspects of the plugin can be either automated or assigned to a macro, it seemed very strange to me that this one detail would not be -- it makes me think that I must be wrong about it somehow! But I still can't figure out a way to set the sequencer "Root" and have it stay there after the set is closed.
I wrote to the Max For Cats developers quite a long time ago to ask about this but have heard nothing from them -- can any of you suggest how I can force the sequencer Root to either conform to the Live set's key, or automate that one control in some other way?
If the MFC folks are seeing this, boy would it ever be great just to have Live's little purple "Scale Mode" toggle in there!
I'm using the OSCiLLOT / Bengal / Pallas suite and I seem to notice something in Pallas:
I can't automate Pallas's sequencer scale root note. This means that I must double check that one particular setting before every performance and switch the scale root to match the Live set's scale. The Scale "type" can be automated (Major, Relative Minor and so forth) -- but not the Root Note.
I'm not sure that selecting a Root Note and a Scale together forces the sequencer to conform to that scale, but once I set the notes on the various interval controllers, those seem to stay as they are when the set is closed and re-opened.
Since many other aspects of the plugin can be either automated or assigned to a macro, it seemed very strange to me that this one detail would not be -- it makes me think that I must be wrong about it somehow! But I still can't figure out a way to set the sequencer "Root" and have it stay there after the set is closed.
I wrote to the Max For Cats developers quite a long time ago to ask about this but have heard nothing from them -- can any of you suggest how I can force the sequencer Root to either conform to the Live set's key, or automate that one control in some other way?
If the MFC folks are seeing this, boy would it ever be great just to have Live's little purple "Scale Mode" toggle in there!