#Tessitura pro mac manual#
I’ve checked the manual and it just says it tunes things to ‘ the closest whole-semitone value to the unquantized V/octave pitch CV X’. the Disting is a complete nuisance, because it uses modal/scale names with no obvious point of reference.
The uScale wouldn’t care about the mode, though - it’s just another way of describing notes.
So: ‘all the white notes’ would correspond (presuming a Braids was correctly in tune) to C major, or D dorian, or E phrygian, or A aeolian. The catch is going to be translating ‘absolute’ quantizers into this. This would just let you push some buttons you like. (Ie: the Pentatonic scale is a five note scale, but sometimes I like to quantise just to I-II-IV-V and that’s not really describable as a mode). The advantage compared to the above is it’s much more intuitive to pick non-eight-note scales, and more to the point, non-contiguous scales. “just-select-notes” quantising: like a uScale or a Penrose, basically: you’re given a 12-semitone keyboard and you pick notes to quantise to.By specifying a mode and a starting point, you’re really just selecting a list of notes across the keyboard. “absolute quantising”: give me a scale and a note to start it on, and I’ll quantise to that.But there are three basic schools of quantising thought, which I’ve given crappy names: Yeah, the Attack piece does what I would have done - explain them all as ‘white note’ scales starting on different notes.Īll a scale is, really, is a list of intervals Tone-Tone-Semitone-Tone-Tone-Tone-Semitone for the major scale, for instance. God, I hope the people who paid for this gig think this is experimental rather than just crap.”
Where I am currently: “Right, that sounds nice, now let’s tentatively hit random notes to see which ones sound right, then try to memorise them, then twiddle the knobs on Braids and Disting like a tone-deaf safecracker, until I find something which sounds like it’s vaguely in tune. What I want: “Right, my Push is in Dorian mode in C, so I’ll set Braids’ quantiser to Phrygian in A, the Disting’s quantiser to Minor Triad + 7th, and play these notes on my MIDI keyboard”
#Tessitura pro mac how to#
I want to learn how to translate between them on the fly, so that I can dial in the right settings and get everything working harmoniously without reverting to guesswork or trial and error. I’m coming at this from a specific practical angle: I’ve got a number of different tools in my studio setup for quantising pitch, all of which use slightly different terminologies and underlying theories which I don’t really understand. Can anyone recommend any super-simple online resources for learning about keys, scales, modes and chords, ideally written from a practical rather than purely theoretical perspective, and suitable for noobz / electronic geeks rather than formally-trained musicians? I have a beginner’s grasp of music theory, but really not much more than that.
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