FR: Scale Folding

[sdv]

I'm wondering if this idea from way back is on the table any more? It would be nice to create a scale for a track and then "fold" - basically eliminate - all other non-scale notes. I can do something similar to what is posted below where you get the visual of the notes but it's still not optimal.

For me, it´s mainly about visualizing, where I am in the scale...

But I found, that the same trick (or nearly the same) from Ableton works in Mulab as well:

- Make an empty sequence on one track
- paint in the notes from the scale (over the most used octaves) 1 bar long
- Right click Bar 2 and choose "Set Part Start"
- if you want the sequence to be looped, set at the same point the loop start (i set the loop 1 bar long)
PR.jpg

From the composer it´s looking like this (so the "scale notes" are ignored)
Compose.jpg
(ignore the missing line at bar 2...it´s just an error in the image)

You can save the created sequence as a muclip to the browser and reinsert it whenever you want

In my case it´s a C-Major scale... simply select all the "scale notes" and transpose them to which key you like for having D major or whatever...
I did the same here for different scales like minor, arabic etc...

It´s a neat workaround, but Jo, if you here me , make please a note on the wishlist for implementing something like this (scale highlighting) natively... I think it´s a great help for many newbies...

Cheers

[MuTools]

I think that when such feature would be implemented it should go hand in hand with a dynamic scale = chord progressions = chord track. Definitely an interesting topic, but not yet planned on short term atm.

[sdv]

I think that when such feature would be implemented it should go hand in hand with a dynamic scale = chord progressions = chord track. Definitely an interesting topic, but not yet planned on short term atm.

Yes, that would be great for an integrated top-down (is that the right phrase) composition structure.