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

2011-01-29 by Matt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=DNBwOycN3MU
Here is me doing this on the korg game boy DS game. If I can only get the command station to do something similar.

On Jan 29, 2011 9:27 AM, "Matt" <;somatt@...> wrote:
> 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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