The Light Guide indicates the selected root note via fully lit LEDs, while other active
keys are half-lit.
The Root Note setting includes the following values:
• C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B
Scale Bank and Type
The second and third SCALE parameters from the left are Bank and Type. Use them to decide the
scale pattern according to which the notes will be mapped onto the keys of the keyboard. Each
Bank consists of 15 thematically related scales, which can be selected by using the Type control.
For example, using the default Root Note value C combined with the default Type Major from
the default Bank Main, you get the scale C major, which spans over one octave and contains the
notes C, D, E, F, G, A, and B (followed by C again). If instead you select G as your Root Note, the
G major scale contains the notes G, A, B, C, D, E, and F♯ (followed by G again). You will notice that
the distance between each note follows the same pattern of “whole step–whole step–half step–
whole step–whole step–whole step–half step,” which is the pattern of the Major scale.
If you are triggering an Instrument via an incoming MIDI pattern from the DAW, the notes of the
MIDI pattern will be mapped onto the closest keys belonging to the selected Type. This means
that, for example (with Root Note set to C) a MIDI pattern consisting of the notes C-D-D♯ will be
played back as such if Type is set to Chromatic from Bank Main, but instead as C-D-E if Type is
set to Major.
The Light Guide indicates the active keys in the selected Type via lit LEDs, while
inactive keys are unlit.
The actual keys triggering the scale notes, as well as the behavior of inactive keys
(unlit LEDs) depend on the KEY MODE Mode parameter (Knob 4).
The following scales are available:
Main Scales
Scale Bank Type Degrees
Chromatic Main Chrom 1 ♭2 2 ♭3 3 4 ♭5 5 ♭6 6 ♭7 7
Major Main Major 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Minor Main Minor 1 2 ♭3 4 5 ♭6 ♭7
Harm Min Main Harm Min 1 2 ♭3 4 5 ♭6 7
Maj Pent Main Maj Pent 1 2 3 5 6
Min Pent Main Min Pent 1 ♭3 4 5 ♭7
Blues Main Blues 1 ♭3 4 ♯4 5 ♭7
Japanese Main Japanese 1 2 ♭3 5 ♭6
Freygish Main Freygish 1 ♭2 3 4 5 ♭6 ♭7
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