Directional Scale
A clone of Live's Scale MIDI effect, modified to allow diff...
- Type
- MIDI Effect
- Author
- dennisdesantis
- Version
- 1.0.1
- License
- None
- Live version
- 10.0.6
- Max version
- 8.0.2
- Downloads
- 2,313
- Updated
- 2019-04-13
Directional Scale is a MIDI Effect for Ableton Live by dennisdesantis, distributed as freeware, with no license specified by the author. It targets Live 10.0.6 and Max 8.0.2. On maxforlive.com it has 2,313 downloads. First published 2015-05-10, last updated 2019-04-13. 1 user comment below.
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Description
A clone of Live's Scale MIDI effect, modified to allow different scales to be used when ascending and descending.
The most common real-world example of this is the melodic minor scale, which is the same as natural minor when descending but uses a raised 6th and 7th scale degree when ascending. In this device the choice of scales is arbitrary for each direction.
version 1.01
Dennis DeSantis
April 13, 2019
Known issues:
- chords don't have a notion of "direction," so you will get unpredictable results. This isn't a bug; it's just the nature of this musical situation.
Credits:
- the Max PitchScaler device from the M4L Building Tools Pack provided most of the transposition logic.
- Chris Muir's NoOverlap abstraction solved the issue of multiple identical notes cutting each other off.
- the solution for hung notes when changing transpositions is a modified version of a patch provided by Bill Canty
Changelog:
0.6
- added info texts
- parameters are now automatable
- input display now ignores note-offs. Result: doesn't jump around so much, and is more useful.
0.61
- tiny optimizations
1.0
- hung notes should now be prevented
- output also ignores note-offs
1.01
- fixed a bug in which hung notes could occur when using multiple instances of the device
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