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The Edit Scale Display
The Edit Scale Display is used to create custom
scales or to modify any of the preset scales
selected in the Scale popup. Edits made using
this display are associated with each scale. That
is, each scale retains its own edits independent
of the other scales. For example, if you select
C Major in the Key and Scale popups and
Remove or Bypass certain notes and then
change to C Minor and make other edits,
when you return to C Major your previous edits
associated with C Major will be restored.
The Edit Scale window displays each note of
the currently selected scale in the currently
selected key. If the selected scale includes
more than twelve notes, Up and Down arrows
will appear to allow scrolling through all of the
available notes.
Beside each note name are two buttons: a
Bypass button and a Remove button. Click on
a button to toggle its state. The button will light
to indicate that its mode is active.
If neither of these buttons are lit, Auto-Tune
7 treats this note as a normal scale note, i.e.,
when the input pitch is close to this note, Auto-
Tune 7 will correct the pitch to this note at the
rate set by the Retune Speed control.
If the scale selected in the Scale popup
contains exactly 12 notes (e.g., Chromatic,
Pythagorean, Meantone Chromatic, Just, etc.),
the Virtual Keyboard (see below) will be active
and any edits to the scale notes made in the
Edit Scale Display will also be reflected on the
Virtual Keyboard.
NOTE: Although Auto-Tune 7
allows setting scale note behaviors
in individual octaves, any edits
made via the Edit Scale Display will affect
all octaves. To edit notes in individual
octaves, use the Virtual Keyboard.
Bypass
If the Bypass button is lit, when the input pitch
is close to this note the input will be passed
through with no correction.
Why set Scale notes to “Bypass”?
There are two main reasons to set one or more
scale notes to “Bypass.”
1. If a performance includes pitch gestures
around one or more specific notes that
you want to preserve with no modification
whatsoever, you can set just those notes to
Bypass. This lets Auto-Tune 7 correct any
pitch problems elsewhere in the scale but
passes everything near the bypassed notes
completely unprocessed.