CreamWare Noah Arpeggiator, Manual

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Octave Extend
Produces cyclical upward transposition of
the arpeggiator output by one or more
octaves. The transpose amount is
automatically "stepped" by one octave
each time the arpeggiator completes a
scan of the captured chord in the current
scan direction. The captured chord is thus
effectively extended into additional higher
octaves as if the actual notes in the
captured chord had been duplicated in
those octaves. Setting Octave Extend to
zero disables it.
"Stepping" of the Octave Extend
transpose amount is always done in a
manner which is consistent with the
selected scan pattern. Assuming that
Octave Extend is enabled (i.e, it is set to
1 or higher):
- With Scan Pattern set to Forward,
output transpose is stepped upward by
one octave following each pass through
the captured chord until the until the scan
in the highest octave (as specified by
the Octave Extend setting) is complete.
Transpose is then reset to 0 and the
cycle repeats.
- With Scan Pattern set to Reverse,
output transpose is stepped downward
by one octave following each pass until
a scan with a transpose of 0 is complete.
Transpose is then reset to the highest
octave (as specified by the Octave
Extend setting) and the cycle repeats.
- With Scan Pattern set to Fwd-Rev,
the scan direction is not reversed upon
completion of a single forward scan of
the captured chord, as would normally
occur. Instead, output transpose is
stepped upward by one octave and
another forward scan is done. This
repeats until the forward scan in the
highest octave is complete – at this
point, the scan direction reverses and
the reverse scan is done, still in the
highest octave. Subsequently, output
Max Velocity: Adjustable between 1 and
127. This setting is effective only when
Velocity:Replace is selected (see
above).
- When LFO Modulation (see below) is
set to zero, this setting
directly specifies
the velocity of output notes, which is then
constant.
- Otherwise, it sets the maximum velocity
value which modulated output notes may
have. Modulation by the LFO results in
time-varying velocity values which are
lower than this maximum.
(By the way – the Max Velocity control is
another excellent candidate for
assignment to a MIDI controller.)