Re: More Tonal Theory: Arppegiators/Accent/Melody

[Rainer Straschill <moinsound@googlemail.com>]

> I am having a blast with Delay/Arpeggiators in Logic.

Margaret, Andy,

of course, there's always the safe route of using what they call an
intelligent pitch shifter (which transposes diatonically, i.e. a
"step" isn't a semi-tone step, but a step in your scale). That way,
the outcome always works in the chosen tonality, and by changing that
scale setting during the piece, you can create changing
arpeggios/harmonizations based on identical input material.

If you're working with the most simple of these constructions - a
pitch shifter/delay chain with feedback - then it helps to work with
tonal sets which are rather simple: if you're using diminshed chords,
there's a total of three of them in the tempered system, and for
whole-tone scales, there are only two, and in both cases, the pitch
between each step is equal.

             Rainer