When Note Display is set to nA (Name), notes which aren’t in the current scale that Zaquencer is set to are shown in the display – though the closest note within the scale is what is being sent through MIDI. Would it be possible to have the display “latch” (for lack of a better term) to the actual note being played?

I’m hoping I was able to communicate this request clearly. Also, I have a feeling the firmware is no longer being updated?

Matthew

This PDF contains an overview of the 33 scales presented in this NewJazz lesson: https://youtu.be/Vq2xt2D3e3E

The scales are organized in 7 families.

Each family has a specific interval pattern and the scales can be defined by the degree/starting-point on that interval pattern.

The 33 scales are derived by complying with some very simple rules:
1) The scales may only contain half, whole and whole-and-a-half steps.
2) Half steps may not be neighbors.
3) Whole and Whole-and-a-half steps may not be neighbors.
4) Whole-and-a-half steps may not be neighbors.

If we comply with these simple rules we limit our total number of scales to 33 AND we make sure
that all our scales are well suited for building up straightforward and evident harmonies.

That may also be why these 33 “scales of harmonies” have been so popular throughout western music history!!!

thanks for taking the time to write and for your feedback!

I can´t promise anything, but I´ll keep it in the back of my mind, in case I get around to doing a redesign of the overlay again.

Best,
Christian

Thanks for this amazing development you did back in the day.

Just want to suggest, if you ever do another run of overlays… For me, the global functions do not have enough contrast to see in night-time. You might consider darkening the Global grey levels a bit, to create more contrast for the white text. Personally I just currently find them hard to read under lighting, no doubt in part because of 50 yr old eyes.

Cheers!

Maybe this will help you:
It’s possible to recall a single track from a pattern into RAM.
To do so, in LOAD menu, hold the track button which you want to recall, while pressing a pattern button that you want to recall the track from (also see Manual page 25).

Unfortunately this doesn’t work for storing patterns (you always store all 4 tracks), but maybe it still helps you in the way you want to work.

Cheers,
Christian

In this condition, you will have the same behavior as the historic Rebirth :
4 fully independant instruments in which you can choose in between the 192 patterns already stored.

In this case, you keep the memory organization that you have today : no more pattern have to be saved, but you only load in RAM the part of the pattern you have choosen.

I do Believe this is not a big change in the way it is programmed : I have built my own sequencer in the past (on ATMEGA 2560) and each pattern was stored in a table. When Calling a pattern, it was just a change in the pointer to the address where to read the data which where transfered to the RAM at the time when I need them.