SECONDARY FUNCTIONS
TEMPO
Tempo affects all the Sequencers. To modify it, press Shift + turn the 1st encoder. The default tempo
value can be modified in the config menu. It only works when the OXI One is in INT (internal)
synchronization mode (see Synchronization section).
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Press SHIFT + Play repeatedly to TAP the tempo to the desired beat.
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SWING
Press SHIFT and turn the 2nd encoder to modify Swing. Every sequencer has its own Swing value.
Since every sequencer may have its own, different time signature or time division, the Swing value
must be set carefully to get musical results. By pressing SHIFT and the encoder 2 button, Swing is
reset to its default value of 50 (no swing!).
SCALE
Press SHIFT and turn the 3rd encoder to choose among different scales.
There are two ways of working with scales that depend on the scale quantization setting.
- When scale quantization is disabled, the new scale will be automatically applied after
turning the encoder. The steps present in the pattern will preserve their position but the resulting notes
may be completely different from one scale to another. For example switching from a C Chromatic (12
notes) to a C Major scale (7 notes), an E note would be translated into a G note. The intervals don’t
change but the resulting notes may differ. In this case, pressing SHIFT + click encoder 3, the scale is
set to the default value which is Chromatic.
- When scale quantization is enabled, the new scale is not automatically set and it has to be
confirmed by holding SHIFT + 3rd encoder click. When a new scale is applied, the existing steps are
adjusted so the resulting notes are the closest as possible as they were before the scale change, this
is the scale quantization. So for example a G note in C Major, 5th interval and 5th grid row, would be
quantized to a G note in C Chromatic which is actually the 8th interval, 8th grid row.
Scale quantization is useful when you need to keep your melody as similar as possible between
scales or when you are looking for a specific scale and you don’t want to listen to all the scales in the
middle. On the other hand, keeping scale quantization OFF provides a more direct access to the
different scales and interesting results when listening to the same set of steps through them.
There’s a very nice feature that we will cover in the HARMONIZER mode section, in which notes in a
Sequencer follow harmonically the notes of the chord played on another Sequencer. This ensures that
all your instruments stay in key and follow your chord progression. The HARMO scale setting is found
one CCW encoder turn before the Chromatic scale. It is only supported in Mono, Poly, Multitrack and
Stochastic modes.
Input notes from the OXI One keyboard or coming from external MIDI sources can be quantized to the
scale depending on the Scale note quantizing setting.
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