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Scales
Circuit Mono Station is extremely flexible in how it lets you configure the note pads in the
playing grid to suit many musical genres in key or scale. There are two aspects to specifying
how the note pads are laid out: the scale and the root note.
Up to 16 musical scales are available: these include those common in western musical styles
such as major, natural minor, pentatonic and chromatic as well as more unusual scales (or
modes) such as Dorian, Lydian and Mixolydian. Not all these scales contain eight notes, though
the only one that has more than eight is Chromatic, with 12.
You don’t need to understand musical theory to make use of different scales.
Because Circuit Mono Station lets you alter the scale in use after you’ve
created a pattern, it’s easy to get an idea of their effect and their differences.
Record a simple pattern of synth notes, and then play it back using different scales.
You’ll notice that with some scales certain notes shift up or down a semitone, and that
this gives the “melody” you’ve composed quite distinct “moods” or “feels”, some of
which will be more suited to what you’re trying to achieve than others.
Furthermore, although the default keyboard is based on a note of C (as described in the
previous section), it is possible to redefine the lowest sounding note to be any note of the
chosen scale.
Both scale and root note are set using the
Scales View
, accessed by pressing the
Scales
button
8
. The
Scales View
will look similar to that shown below:
C
D
C#
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4
5
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7
8
9
10
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12
13
14
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Eb
F#
Ab
Bb
E
F
G
A
B
Keynote Selection
Scale Selection
Currently-selected
starting note
Currently-selected
scale
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