01-10-2020, 11:09 AM
(01-10-2020, 05:48 AM)rob-ant Wrote: Thanks Mark, you were right. However, when I change to chromatic or scale, the notes drop in pitch significantly and I'm not sure why. Also, and I may be missing something again, but is it possible to swap note value for note itself I
the editor? Value of say '15' means nothing to me but if the value displayed the actual note, based on the root note, it would be much more helpful.
I have seen anomalies in how the scale and chromatic patterns are saved, which I have raised in another post. However, I think the pitch changes you describe are something else. Darryl posted a response to one of my other messages saying that all NDLR's notes are relative values, not absolute notes, and so I am guessing when you change between Scale, Chromatic and Chord modes those values relate to different reference points. I can't be more specific as I don't know a lot about either music theory or the NDLR internals!
But I agree, the use of note numbers is not intuitive. I have found, as I think is intended, that the only real way to design a sequence in the pattern editor is to fiddle with the note values while the pattern is running until you get something you like. For Scale and Chromatic patterns the actual notes don't matter as you can transpose the sequence later by changing the position. For chromatic sequences it is helpful to use a keyboard to input the notes, although again you will need to transpose the pattern to get it into the key you need. I posted a message about this too.