11-01-2020, 12:35 PM
Just to chime in here, I wish there was a way to allow chromatic (black key) notes to be transposed. In other words, keep the NDLR key, but turn the NDLR scale/mode off. Could be as simple as a setting making the transpose channel 'scale' or 'chromatic.'
Chromatic transposition would make C on the keyboard the root of whatever key was selected on the NDLR. Incoming notes would transpose intervallicly only.
Say the NDLR key was Ab. Incoming notes would be transposed -4 semitones (or +8 - how to pick is a digression).
This would not prevent certain 'mistakes,' but frees up musical expression. Plenty of melodies use notes outside the scale. The way transposition works now is described perfectly in the manual, but is not musically intuitive. I find it useless, because I know the exact note I want to play in relation to the root, regardless of the scale. Or at least willing to chance it. The machine better not contradict me!
The mistake that still gets prevented is playing notes in the wrong place relatively in the scale. I can take the NDLR to any key and still play as if the root was C. Also this helps when using small keyboards, the same playing keys are always available.
I had a previous post asking to do transposition by interval on multiple channels, called it a 'transposition matrix' I think. That may have been overkill. A midi event processor could also do this, but now I'm outside the NDLR. The NDLR already does so much to manage key and scale that I keep wanting more.
Chromatic transposition would make C on the keyboard the root of whatever key was selected on the NDLR. Incoming notes would transpose intervallicly only.
Say the NDLR key was Ab. Incoming notes would be transposed -4 semitones (or +8 - how to pick is a digression).
This would not prevent certain 'mistakes,' but frees up musical expression. Plenty of melodies use notes outside the scale. The way transposition works now is described perfectly in the manual, but is not musically intuitive. I find it useless, because I know the exact note I want to play in relation to the root, regardless of the scale. Or at least willing to chance it. The machine better not contradict me!
The mistake that still gets prevented is playing notes in the wrong place relatively in the scale. I can take the NDLR to any key and still play as if the root was C. Also this helps when using small keyboards, the same playing keys are always available.
I had a previous post asking to do transposition by interval on multiple channels, called it a 'transposition matrix' I think. That may have been overkill. A midi event processor could also do this, but now I'm outside the NDLR. The NDLR already does so much to manage key and scale that I keep wanting more.