Hi list,

To be honest I think the respons to my suggestion of an alternative
quantizing module is not very promising yet. However the basic idea
could be made more attractive and usable by adding the possibility
to work with scales and arpeggios both in standard and 'weird'
tunings.

For this the 'masking' of certain values/steps of the active tuning
would be needed.

E.g. n=12 (regular 12 tone tuning)

Masking the 2nd, 4th, 7th, 9th and 11th step would result in only
outputting values that are in the regular major scale we are all
familiar with. But of course with this masking principle you could
make every possible scale in the 12 tone tuning. And for other
values of n you could create even more unusual scales and
arpeggios.

As user interface for masking I would suggest using midi note
messages. Pressing a certain key on a midi-keyboard to realtime
toggle on/off the masking of a corresponding step in a tuning. This
way a new scale or arpeggio could be created in a split second, and
even playing the quantiser would be possible. Presets of favorite
scales or arpeggio's could be stored in a midi-sequencer.

And while I'm thinking up more features: a three way switch that
decides if the mask is 1, 2 or 3 octaves wide would enable even
more creative scales and arpeggios.

Personally speaking I would be quite content with the basic idea as I
posted it a few days ago, but maybe combined with this extra idea
more people get interested

greetz

Anton