Electribe does this out of the box
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=Dtwk2ouGz-U
Notice the pitch strip being used for soloing and freestyle melodies
On Jan 29, 2011 7:38 AM, "duncan" <ferrograph@...> wrote:
>>>(2) How can you force pitch bend to play only notes in a particular mode/scale, specificially, the same one as the arp?<<
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> I've only ever been able to achieve this in the analogue domain, by routing the pitch-bend wheel (of any keyboard, but the control must be analogue CV, so a midi keyboard would have to be sent to a midi>cv converter) through a quantiser or "scale generator" such as the doepfer a-156.
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> I'm part-way through modifying a moog rogue so that it has an internal 8-step sequencer routed through one of these modules; the second channel will be applied to the PB wheel if I ever get finished.
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> I don't know of a midi event processor that can impose a scale on PB data, nor can I think of a simple way to do this within the proteus architecture, but there may be some combination of multiple wheel>switch>pitch patchings that will get you there.
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> prob'ly use up all the patchcords.... :-)
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> another way would be to use layers that are tuned differently & use the wheel to switch amongst them; if you combine these two approaches, you might get close to what you need.
> the use of user tuning tables is a given, anyway, if you want the arp to stay in one key. :-)
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> duncan.
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>>>(2) How can you force pitch bend to play only notes in a particular mode/scale, specificially, the same one as the arp?<<
>
> I've only ever been able to achieve this in the analogue domain, by routing the pitch-bend wheel (of any keyboard, but the control must be analogue CV, so a midi keyboard would have to be sent to a midi>cv converter) through a quantiser or "scale generator" such as the doepfer a-156.
>
> I'm part-way through modifying a moog rogue so that it has an internal 8-step sequencer routed through one of these modules; the second channel will be applied to the PB wheel if I ever get finished.
>
> I don't know of a midi event processor that can impose a scale on PB data, nor can I think of a simple way to do this within the proteus architecture, but there may be some combination of multiple wheel>switch>pitch patchings that will get you there.
>
> prob'ly use up all the patchcords.... :-)
>
> another way would be to use layers that are tuned differently & use the wheel to switch amongst them; if you combine these two approaches, you might get close to what you need.
> the use of user tuning tables is a given, anyway, if you want the arp to stay in one key. :-)
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> duncan.
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