[sdiy] The ideal quantizer, was: Music

[Ingo Debus]

Am 24.02.2011 um 23:26 schrieb David G. Dixon:

> Tthe Intellijel Designs "uScale" does pretty much exactly what  
> you're after
> and costs less than $200.  It has a little keyboard on the front  
> with all 12
> chromatic tones represented by little black and white buttons, and  
> you can
> select whatever chord or scale you desire.

As I understand it, this looks more like the "12 toggle switches"  
approach I mentioned.

> It's not that hard: musically useful scales have lots of 1- and 2- 
> semitone
> intervals.
[...tons of interesting stuff snipped..]
> I could go on and on about this, but I think I'll stop there.

Thanks for that comprehensive info! Lots of things to try now.


>> The goal is, finding nice scales without having to know a lot about
>> music theory. Any ideas?
>
> Yeah: learn the theory!  As I said, there aren't really that many  
> truly
> useful scales (in Western music, anyway), and really understanding  
> how to
> use them is an extremely rewarding thing.

Does everyone using a synthesizer VCF have to know everything about  
filter theory? ;-)

Ingo