EMX Chord Oscilator and Arp Question

phillwilson · Post by **phillwilson** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:56 pm

I notice that in the "Chord Oscilator" part of the manual it says to pick "major , Minor, Minr7th etc etc" and it will play multilple occilators as a chord............

I also know from the manal that it has the ability to play the arp slider in a scale .......

what I would like to know therefore is

If I pick the "Chord Osc" and specify "Major"

then pick "C - Major " for instance for the Arp slider......

when I reach a part using Chords ... C , G, ( A )............when it hits the A...does it go to A minor.....as it should if the "Scale" setting is being understood correctly......or does it stay on "Major" .which would make the chord osc all but useless for someone who plays live from a blank canvas without stopping to go back over data.

thanks

Phill MyOneManBand

P-E · Post by **P-E** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:40 am

I'm not in front of the machine now... but as far as I understand how Mr. Chord works, it will generate a basic waveform, to which it will add sub-oscillators (just like the Additive synth). The difference between Additive and Chord is that Chord places the sub-oscillat ors at specific tuned frequencies (10:12:15 in the case of a minor chord).
So if it's set to Major, it will play major chords on every note that you hit.

phillwilson · Post by **phillwilson** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:05 am

ah...

considering the fairly ubiquitous use of both major and minor chords within almost every song in popular music thats a bit ....well.......s**t

unless you're Status Quo i guess ?

P-E · Post by **P-E** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 2:01 am

How about using motion sequence to arrange your chord progression?