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Quick Transpose BW

by synthesizerwriter

So what is it? It's a completely over-the-top transposer, w...

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Type
MIDI Effect
Author
synthesizerwriter
Version
0.03
License
None
Live version
10.0.5
Max version
8.0.0
Downloads
593
Updated
2018-11-18

Description

So what is it? It's a completely over-the-top transposer, with many ways to transpose, including a counter mode that you may well have never seen before and will likely never see again. Like many of my devices, it is a bit of an experiment (ProbablyLFO and LFOLFO are good examples). Enjoy!

Just imagine the plain ordinary 'Quick Transpose', but turn up the transposition options to 11! So you get:

- Octaves

- Fifths

- User-selectable

- Semitones

- Counter mode (up and down (loops at +/- 12 semitones)

All transpositions can be accessed using my 'mouse-user centric' preference: a single mouse click.

Like any simple MIDI 'transpose', device, you may get stuck notes if you transpose whilst a note is playing (the Note Off message tries to turn off the untransposed Note On!). I use two different methods to try and fix this, but they aren't 100% effective in all cases. I use this for transposing layers in Racks, and so this problem doesn't occur. If you really want to do real-time transposition, then try my 'Quick Transpose Audio BW' device, which does the transposition in the audio-domain, and has extra features designed for live performance (plus a different set of glitches and artefacts!)

And grateful thanks to 'brucewayne247' for the inspiration for the 'Counter' section... This latest version adds a quick 'zero' function when you click on the blue transpose value in between the + and - buttons.

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