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Re: [xl7] Re: Tuning tables and arps: electribe style automatic arpeggio solos

2011-01-29 by Matt

Korg also does this on many of their kaoss products. Pitch will be. Horizontal and gate will be vertical and then you can modify it in options.

On Jan 29, 2011 9:24 AM, "Matt" <somatt@...> wrote:
> 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?<<
>>
>> 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. :-)
>>
>> duncan.
>>

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