This section provides a hands-on introduction to the use of scales and chords from your con-
troller. The corresponding parameters will be described in detail in section ↑5.5.3, Scale and
Chord Parameters.
Let’s choose a particular scale, say, minor pentatonic. On your controller, do the following:
1. Switch the focus to a Sound slot containing a polyphonic instrument, or load one into the
desired Sound slot.
2. Hold the PAD MODE button to enter Pad Mode (or press PAD MODE + Button 1 to pin it).
3. Press Button 2 (KEYBOARD) to enable Keyboard mode.
4. Check that the first page of parameters are selected (1/2 displayed at the bottom right of
the left display), if it’s not the case press the dimmed left Page button to select it.
5. Turn Knob 1 (Scale TYPE) to select Minor Pentatonic.
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Hit a few pads: They trigger only notes from the selected scale. The right display shows
the particular note played by each pad. Furthermore the root note (C3 by default) and its
octaves are highlighted and the corresponding pads on your controller are fully lit.
Now let’s start the scale on D3 instead of C3:
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Press Button 8 (SEMITONE+) twice.
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Hit a few pads: They trigger the notes from the minor pentatonic scale based on D. Fur-
thermore all your pads were shifted two semitones up so that pad 1 still triggers the root
note of the selected scale.
Now we want the pads to trigger chords instead of single notes. First we want chords based on
the minor pentatonic scale currently selected:
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