> Thanks Nick for the information. By 'quantize', i was more thinkingWell you can definitely program each touch plate to output a value
> of a situation where you program voltages of different increments
> over 10 parts of the touchplate, and that way you could play a
> 'quantized' chord (if i'm understanding it correctly). This would
> be very powerful, in that one could experiment with all kinds of
> exotic tunings.
you want and there are 4 channels of CV suitable for pitch.
When I brought up "quantitized" I'm meaning the ability to take an
ordinarily smoothly variable output and have it jump to (typically)
the steps of the scale. It's a great use if you want to change values
live and some of the touchplates do put out smoothly variable outputs
besides simply triggering an event.
For what it's worth, Buchla's 250e, their circular laid out sequencer
can quantitize to 0.1 volt increments. Since it's a 1.2v/oct
instrument you get scale half steps if the feature is turned on.
As for experimenting with other tunings, yes, when you can define the
output voltage values of a key or several touch controllers you can
create a custom scale.
While even more expensive than the 222e, it's worth noting that the
Haken Continuum is polyphonic and has user definable quantitizing
scales and mapping of voltages over the surface.
http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/
You can do things like quantitize the initial touch on the surface to
a user defined scale then have it go unquantitized for fingered
vibrato and bends. You can also optionally have it smoothly round to
the nearest note after x amount of mililseconds after stopping some
kind of manual pitch movement too.
nick