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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 arpeg-
gios 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-cor-
rect 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 syn-
thesizers, 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: