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2012/04/08 22:02:57 (permalink)

how to set scale and key of arpeggiator? sonar 8.5

I feel like this should be an easy one, but I'm not getting very far.

Im using dim pro with an acoustic guitar sound.    I want to use the arpeggiator to make some nice basic arpeggios in C major.  Sounds easy right?

So I turn on the arpeggiator and I can't get the darned thing to follow any sort of scale.  I see under the midi controls that I can select a scale and key, but that doesn't seem to have any effect on the notes that are played.     For example, in the midi controls I set the key to C major Ionian,   but when I hold the C on my midi controller (lpk25) and use an acoustic guitar arpeggio I get what sound like some sort of diminished arpeggio.   

I'm sure there is something simple I am missing.   Any ideas?

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    Re:how to set scale and key of arpeggiator? sonar 8.5 2012/04/09 08:19:01 (permalink)
    The arpeggiator is a strange beast at time, infact in some cases its more of a pattern sequencer, these acoustic guitar arpeggios being a case in point. 

    I had not considered the possibility that the guitar arpeggios may follow the key selected in the midi track so I dont know the answer to your question but I will try later and see if I can get anything to work. If it does I may actually have a use for the arpeggiator.
     
    Of course there is a possibility that the chord pattern you have chosen is a diminished chord IIRC they are not all major or minor chords. did you try other patterns.
    post edited by Glyn Barnes - 2012/04/09 08:22:13

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    Re:how to set scale and key of arpeggiator? sonar 8.5 2012/04/09 12:01:31 (permalink) ☄ Helpful
    Well, I have had a play about and it looks to me like the scale settings have no effect on the arpeggiator patterns at all. I tried the first pattern in "Acoustic Guitar" AccGt 01. Regardless of the scale setting it plays the same set of notes when you hit C. (C D Eb G Bb  & high C.)
     
    The function of the scale setting seems to be to set the snap options in PRV, with a scale selected notes enterd in PRV snap to the selected scale. So that is something new I learned.
     
    You can bounce the Arp to a clip and then edit the notes as required in PRV but that somewhat defeats the point.
    post edited by Glyn Barnes - 2012/04/09 12:13:29

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    Re:how to set scale and key of arpeggiator? sonar 8.5 2012/04/09 18:14:52 (permalink)
    Shoot.
    Whats the point of arpeggiating if it doesn't follow a key?  Thanks for your information,   glad to hear it wasn't just me.


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    Re:how to set scale and key of arpeggiator? sonar 8.5 2012/04/09 22:43:06 (permalink)
    AFAIK, the arpeggiator follows the keys you play on the keyboard. So if you want it to play in F, hold down F on your keyboard and it will play the pattern in F. 
    post edited by daveny5 - 2012/04/09 22:45:25

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