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Re: FTS user-scale quirk-around

2005-10-04 by ferrograph632

>>I see where the confusion comes from... The scale editor always
shows the note numbers relative to C, but these are transposed to the
current root when the scale is applied.
Maybe it would make more sense to show the note names relative to the
current root.<<

I pondered some more, after I'd had some coffee, & wondered htf one is
supposed to enter a //scale// based on one's requirement for a
particular //key//, without having to do the transposing in one's
head, up-front... so to speak.... but that's the way life is sometimes.

e.g. if I want the machine to play in a key with no C's in it (which,
astonishingly for anyone who's heard our stuff, we do need to do
occasionally... "geiger" is in E flat minor, for example), I have to
think to myself "ignore the C, & sort it out afterwards... erm...
tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, semitone.... ah f*ck, it says A...
does that mean A# or....?"

but to be fair, the distinction is clearly made & the tools are there
to achieve the required end. if it had said "force to key" or "user
key editor" then there might be a problem.

>>IIRC the SYNC output on your second unit is a clock-only MIDI output.<<

sync output? erm.... there are five (I think) midi outputs... none of
them say "sync" & so far, all of them have played notes. are you sure?

d.

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