User defined chord structures

[Jesse Johannesen]

Hi there.

I have a deep, deep yearning to be able to enter a chord structure, say A B C E, an AmAdd2 with a tasty semitone clash in it then as I press the other chord buttons, the chord will change but maintain my chord structure in a modally appropriate manner, so if I pressed the VI key in the key of Dm I would get the notes F G A C and so on. I would like to be able to send these chords from the PAD section to an arpeggiator but at the moment the basic major, minor etc chords sound a bit unsatisfying. Maybe the scale pattern editor could be made to transform in this manner according to the scale degree?

So my initial response was "probably not", but after thinking about it for a minute, I think you could:
1. open the pattern editor
2. set it to scale
3. make a pattern with the note values above based on the degrees of the scale

this would arpeggiate your chord, but wouldn't transpose it with the chord changes, but if you change the key it will transpose. Holding shift while selecting a key (or making any other changes) will allow you to make non-destructive changes and releasing shift will cause those changes to go into effect, so you could try messing with that and see if it does what you want. You could also use the CHORD SEQ to set any key changes you like in time with the clock.

I'd be interested to hear whether or not this works for you.
Jesse