Doepfer

Hi list,

To be honest I think the respons to my suggestion of an alternative 
quantizing module is not very promising yet. However the basic idea 
could be made more attractive and usable by adding the possibility 
to work with scales and arpeggios both in standard and 'weird' 
tunings.  

For this the 'masking' of certain values/steps of the active tuning 
would be needed. 

E.g. n=12 (regular 12 tone tuning)

Masking the 2nd, 4th, 7th, 9th and 11th step would result in only 
outputting values that are in the regular major scale we are all 
familiar with. But of course with this masking principle you could 
make every possible scale in the 12 tone tuning. And for other 
values of n you could create even more unusual scales and 
arpeggios.

As user interface for masking I would suggest using midi note 
messages. Pressing a certain key on a midi-keyboard to realtime 
toggle on/off the masking of a corresponding step in a tuning. This 
way a new scale or arpeggio could be created in a split second, and 
even playing the quantiser would be possible. Presets of favorite 
scales or arpeggio's could be stored in a midi-sequencer. 

And while I'm thinking up more features: a three way switch that 
decides if the mask is 1, 2 or 3 octaves wide would enable even 
more creative scales and arpeggios.

Personally speaking I would be quite content with the basic idea as I 
posted it a few days ago, but maybe combined with this extra idea 
more people get interested?

greetz

Anton