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Hey guys

I'm having difficulty transposing on the fly - I can obviously switch whole octaves using the lever, but I can't make smaller changes (for example detuning so that playing C5 will give me B5) without going into the Global Transpose option (which is obviously a pain in the neck when I'm playing live and changing key for each song).

The manual says that holding the SHIFT key and using the shift octave lever will transpose the note in steps of one, but on mine that just shifts the BPM in increments of one.

Thanks in advance.

Melonbread

That trick will work... if you are on the transpose parameter in the Global Mode.

Ah... I see.

Cheers screaminkeys.

In the "PITCH" page, there's a transpose setting that only applies to the program you're using. That goes in semitones. You could assign that to one of the assign knobs on the "KNOB" page, to work quickly.

Hi 30three,

would you mind explaining the process of assigning this to a knob, I have tried everything I can think of and I cant find it as an option, alll i can find are options to tune each occilator, this isnt what i want.

your explaination is giving me a little hope on a subject that is a deal breaker for me as I use it with guitar and Capo a lot and i dont want to thave ot learn each song in C on guitar and then G on migrokorg or whatever.

thanks a lot.

Phill

Well, most people would use a different program for each song in that case, each with a different transpose value saved.

And AFAIK there is no tune control for Oscillator 1, instead routing a knob or modulating pitch with something will affect both oscillators - having the same result as transposing. then osc2 is detuned relative to the transpose/pitch setting.

thats exactly what i am doing, but it sucks.

i tend to jam sounds out as a one man looping show and i capo anywhere from 0 to 7th fret.... at the moment i have had it set up so transposed versions exist on the second knob. but that limits me to only having 16 sounds transposed 7 times each.......all for just the lack of a direct button.

whats even more annoying is thatthe shift and octave would be perfect for tis for me, but it only adjusts like that in edit mode, not performance. damn annoying.

Im not much of a programmer so i dont really understand your alternative solution?? would this give me "transpose" setting mapped to one of the assignable knobs? by patching pitch to the tuning of osc1 to osc2 then contolling the pich in semitone steps of osc 2 from a knob assign? am I on the right lines?

any chance , if you have the time you could run thoguth the button presses from a normal patch that would accomplish this?

sorry if Im a noob. im very very interested in learning if anyone can teach me.

thanks again

Phill

Sorry, what I was trying to say was that, in normal operation, the basic setup is the following:

Osc1 Pitch = Pitch
Osc2 Pitch = Pitch + Osc2 Tune

I don't have an XL, I used to have a normal Micro, now I have a Radias (which the XL is based off), but you said you found tune parameters for both oscillators. What I was trying to say was that tuning osc1 should affect osc2 too because they are linked, there is no independent tune for osc1. I'm not suggesting you set up anything at all, just trying to explain how the tuning works, so if you found a way to supposedly tune osc1, it should affect osc2 too effectively being a transpose.


but obviously you could route for example the modwheel to pitch using the virtual patch slots, that would let you transpose using the modwheel.