SETTING SCALES
On the DB-01, you can choose from 8 factory preset musical scales and design up to 16 of
your own scales, including microtonal scales. To set the scale push and hold the SHIFT
button and push the SCALE button! The first 12 step buttons will lit 50% and 70% dimmed,
emulating one octave on the piano keyboard. In order to select scales, rotate the
SELECT/GATE encoder to navigate through scales. Rotate the BACK/NOTE encoder to set
the root note. Factory preset scales are: Chromatic, Major, Minor, Major Pentatonic, Minor
Pentatonic, Whole-tone, Major Blues, Minor Blues. The selected scale is automatically
applied. When designing the sequence, only notes present in the scale are available.
To design your own scale, navigate to the user defined scales U-1, U-2, etc., and simply
engage or disengage notes on the “keyboard” by pushing the relevant step buttons. In
order to save the scale, push and hold the RECORD button. The user-defined scales are
saved after the factory preset scales, and you can recall those in the same way as the
factory preset ones.
To design the microtonal scales, push and hold one of the step buttons on the “keyboard”
and rotate the SELECT/GATE encoder. This will transpose the note on the relevant step by
-+50 cents. To return to the step enter menu, push the BACK/NOTE encoder.
To design the scale that is NOT tied to any notes and is completely microtonal (for
example, you may want to have a scale that consists of 5 pitches so that the first one is
C4, the second one is C4+10cents, third one is C4+20cents, etc.), rotate the SELECT/NOTE
encoder counterclockwise (OFF will appear on the indicator). Now you can use the
keyboard to enter desired amount of pitch steps (5 in our example) and rotate the
BACK/NOTE encoder to navigate through semitones across some notes. To advance to
higher pitches faster use the OCTAVE buttons or push and rotate the BACK/NOTE encoder
(notes from the chromatic scale will appear on the indicator for reference).
The selected Scale is saved with the Pattern, and next time you recall the relevant pattern,
it automatically stets the scale, as well.
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