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on the notes you played exactly (and then extrapolated, shifted, and
rearranged), or can be based on a scale determined by chord analysis of
the notes played (and then extrapolated, shifted, and rearranged). All of
this can allow for notes in the resulting phrase that were not in the notes
that you provided.
The Note Series itself is indexed according to the settings of the Index
Group of parameters, which means that by clever use of one of the Scalic
Modes (Note Type) and the Index Pattern, you can specify a nearly exact
melody to be produced, that can then be varied in real-time to something
else.
If the GE Type is “Generated-Drum”, you can use the 3 concurrent Drum
Patterns in the Drum Group to specify musical pitches instead of drum
sounds, and create exact melodies, chords, bass lines etc., that can also
be varied in real-time if desired.
If the GE Type is “Real-time”, chord recognition is generally used to
determine a key and tonality, and then the Index Pattern controls the
directions of movement away from a starting note, which under certain
circumstances can also be used to specify an exact melody.
This will become a lot clearer when the KARMA software is released.
4. Is there a way to program the GEs note by note ?
Yes, to a certain degree, but only with the software. In the keyboard, you
are limited to the many different variations on a GE that can be created
by either manipulating the knobs and switches, or changing the up to 16
RT Parms that are available for each GE at:
(6.3-1/2/3/4) [Menu]-[K GE]-[GE P..4/8/12/16]
☞ Parameter Guide, Page 32.
5. I’m trying to audition GEs using Program A001 Acoustic Piano,
and it seems I have to manually keep hitting Switch 2 to hear
them.
The problem with just picking a program arbitrarily as a place to start
auditioning GEs is that you don’t know what other kind of tricky stuff
the programmer has set up in that program. A001, for example, is set
up to do some pretty tricky stuff, such as triggering the riff via aftertouch
(in scene 1; KARMA switch 2 turns the manual triggering on/off).