AW: [sdiy] scales for a pitch voltage quantizer

[Czech Martin]

I don't understand exactly what you need, but what about modes?

ionian, dorian, lydian, phrygian, mixolydian,  aeolian, locrian etc.
(sp??)

Of course, ionian and aeolian is uncool.

Also the enigmatic scale (Joe Satriani, track "The Enigmatic" 
can yield good results.

The motto is : 7 monotoic rising tones out of 12. experiment. very soon you
will
come up with exotic scales...

I mean I'm really dumb as guitar player. But you can beef up
by just avoiding the most common three scales...


OTOH: this can be done using existing midi technology.
There are so many possibilities...

in order to have working modes you must emphasize the fundamental,
otherwise the western trained ear will snap to the 
related ionic scale with some other fundamental
and the thrill is gone...

m.c.

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Wilfried Dietrich [mailto:wilfried.dietrich at sse-erfurt.de]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. November 2001 15:50
> An: 'synth-diy'
> Betreff: [sdiy] scales for a pitch voltage quantizer
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm new to this list so I like to introduce myself
> in short before asking my first question.
> 
> I'm from germany and I have (re)started synth diy a year 
> ago on the basis of the renewed Formant Pro project.
> I say restarted because I had already an modular project 
> running during the early 80s. Due to several reasons its
> progression slowed down more and more and then at one point in
> history anything of interest had to be digital. So I forgot
> the whole story and putted the rests into the waste basket :(
> I was always faszinated by electronic sounds and instruments 
> but I never had a musical education, so (beside the above short
> story) my interest in sythesizers remained "platonic" for 
> years. But when my daugther was old enough to take piano
> lessons I thought "why not - now or never" and since then we are 
> sharing the same piano teacher. You see at this point it couldn't 
> last very long until I had bought my first synth ;) 
> Now while owning a number of beautiful digital synths (K5000,
> Nord Modular) I found myself still wishing to have a real analog
> modular, with real knobs and real patches and a real wood case.
> I just had started to search for an appropriate project when the
> Formant Pro book was issued, so this was the way to go for me.
> 
> Now to my question. Because the Formant system is lacking
> a pitch voltage quantizer I designed one based on an Atmel
> ATtiny15 controller. The module is already working. The required code 
> is very small so I have room for up to 12 different output scales.
> But which ones are the most useful ? At the moment I plan to 
> implement the following scales:
> 
> chromatic
> major
> major chord
> major chord + 6th
> major chord + 7th
> minor
> minor chord
> minor chord + 6th
> minor chord + 7th
> pentatonic
> 
> There are two options left (at the moment called Exotic I and II). 
> Any suggestions ? 
> Or is someone voting for a completely other selection ?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Wilfried
>