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Posted on: February 22, 2009 @ 06:58 AM
ajm786
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In song mode. I am trying to transpose some notes, but I can only do it by full tones. Is there any way to transpose half a tone, or anything other than full tones (0,1,2,3, so on)? For instance, what if I want to transpose to the middle of 0 and 1?

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Posted on: February 22, 2009 @ 07:05 AM
jan bruijn
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ajm

Half tones? one octave has 13 halftones. You can select transpose 1 and you transpose one half tone, so step 13 is one octave higher.

Anyway, every step is one half tone. TRansposing between 0-1 is not possable I think, that means you want to transpose 1/4 tone. LOL.

Jan

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Posted on: February 22, 2009 @ 01:35 PM
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RE “one octave has 13 halftones”

Hi Jan - I think you’ll find it’s 12.

Otherwise that nice Mr Schoenberg had the wrong name for his radical system of composition!

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B

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Posted on: February 22, 2009 @ 02:59 PM
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Boulez,

Yes, silly me. What I ment if you choose 13 for transpose you are one octave higher.

Jan

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Posted on: February 22, 2009 @ 03:09 PM
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jan bruijn - 22 February 2009 02:59 PM

.... if you choose 13 for transpose you are one octave higher.

Ehh....no, it is: if you choose 12 for transpose you are one octave higher.

Marcel

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Posted on: February 22, 2009 @ 03:12 PM
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“Yes, silly me. What I ment if you choose 13 for transpose you are one octave higher.”

No, I still think you’ll find it is still 12… although C to C is thirteen notes, it takes 12 steps to get there. A transpose of 0 is an oxymoron (meaning: it does not exist)

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Posted on: February 22, 2009 @ 08:32 PM
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Bad Mister,

Thanks for correcting me. Ofcourse you are right. Frankly I should know it, because I did use these transpose settings some time ago to get something two octave highers and I remember I used +24.

Jan

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