TB-303 Chord Wheel

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Hello,

I had found a Picture from TB-303 Chord Wheel! It is nice.
How does one use this wheel? Me can someone show that?
Can thank you make an example for me?

pic of the wheel: http://www.getobject.com/303chord.jpg

thank you

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You're going to need at least 3 TBs to actually play a chord though. :hihi:
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This is pretty simple. Each wheel just goes chromatically upwards as you go clockwise. Comparing one wheel to the other gives you a transposed key vs. the original key. On a synth, you have some control that does the pitch shifting automatically, and then the outside wheel represents the original note while the inside wheel represents the shifted one. For a non-synth example, say you wrote a score in concert pitch, and wanted to convert one part for an Eb horn. You'd set the wheel to D#/Eb. Find the note from your concert score on the inside wheel, and the note on the outside would be the correct note to write for the horn part.

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