Tips & Tricks

Generating scale-correct arpeggios from single notes

By chaining a Scales & Chords device with a Dual Arpeggio device you will be able to generate scale-correct arpeggios by playing single notes.

1.	Create an Instrument device.

In this example we create an ID8.

2.	Select the ID8 device in the rack and double-click a Scales & Chords device.

The Scales and Chords device is automatically attached to the ID8.

3.	Select the ID8 device in the rack and double-click a Dual Arpeggio device.

The Dual Arpeggio device is attached between the Scales & Chords device and the ID8 device:

4.	On the Scales & Chords device, select Key and Scale, then switch on the Chords function set the Notes knob to 4.

5.	Play single notes on your MIDI Control Keyboard (or On-screen Piano Keys) and hear how four-note scale-correct arpeggios are now generated.

Generating chord arpeggios

By chaining a Dual Arpeggio device with a Scales & Chords device you will be able to generate arpeggiated chords.

1.	Create an Instrument device.

In this example we create an ID8.

2.	Select the ID8 device in the rack and double-click a Dual Arpeggio device.

The Dual Arpeggio device is automatically attached to the ID8.

3.	Select the ID8 device in the rack and double-click a Scales & Chords device.

The Scales and Chords device is attached between the Dual Arpeggio device and the ID8 device:

4.	On the Scales & Chords device, select Key and Scale, then switch on the Chords function set the Notes knob to 3.

5.	Play chords on your MIDI Control Keyboard (or On-screen Piano Keys) and hear how arpeggiated three-note chords are now generated.

Creating parallel chords

The Scales & Chords Player is great for generating chords that stay within a set scale, but sometimes you may want chords that keep their form when you play different notes. For example, you might want a minor 9th chord that is transposed with the notes you play, but stays a minor 9th chords (like with the Chord Memory function of some synthesizers, for example). This can be called “parallel chords”, and is actually best done with the Note Echo device:

1.	Set Step Length to 0.

2.	Raise the Repeats value to maximum.

3.	Set the Pitch to +1 semitone.

This means that each repeat is 1 semitone higher than the previous - and since Step Length is 0, they are all played at the same time. If you play a note now, you get a dense cluster of notes - not very musical or useful, but let’s continue:

4.	Click the Repeat circles in the display to turn off the notes you don't want.

This is how you would set up a minor 9th chord for example:

5.	Play different (single) notes on your MIDI Control Keyboard/On-screen Piano Keys to get parallel, transposed chords.

You could also add a Dual Arpeggio Player after the Note Echo for cool arpeggios!

The Note Echo device comes with a number of ready-made chord patches. You find them by clicking the Browse Patch button on the Note Echo device and opening the “Chords” sub-folder in the browser.

Using a Scales & Chords device as a “MIDI Note monitor”

Sometimes it might be interesting to see in real-time what notes/chords a Player or “Player chain” actually generates.

1.	Add a Chords & Scales device last (at the bottom) in the Player chain.

2.	Make sure Scale is set to “Chromatic” and that Filter Notes and Chords are Off.

When you play through your Player(s) the generated notes/chords are now displayed in the Scales & Chords keyboard display:

The “Creating parallel chords” example monitored in a Scales & Chords device when playing the note C.