Can the Hapax do something similar to what the oxi one is doing here?
Yes, if you set your transpose track to match chord mode.
Match Chord is a fun and musical feature, opening the way to live scale changes and new harmonization possibilities.
Once Match Chord is set on Track 16, it will listen for a note or a chord. Every other tracks (1 to 15) will have their own notes quantized accordingly. This allows you to transpose everything to a new scale, a new chord or even a single note and thus change your entire project harmony in real-time.
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Yes it can, but it’s a small difference, it doesn’t follow octaves, just the harmony. I really like the way Oxi can also follow the octaves and it’s one thing that I miss from the oxi, I think I will post It as a feature request, to be able to turn octave follow on, hmm
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Thanks for the replies. Ended up buying one and I’m really enjoying it, though yes I agree it would be really nice if it could follow octaves too.
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Good point. I think the Oxi implementation is more musical most of the times because of the octave following. Hopefully Squarp will add this option in the future.
I’d also love to be able to make the tracks in Project B with pTRSP set to on follow the transpose track of Project A (and vice versa), so you can make harmonic transitions between Project A and Project B, even when the melodies are in a completely different scale or root note.
Then after you muted Project A, you try to find a good moment to turn off the setting again, so all melodies of Project B revert back to their original forms.
You can sort of do this by just copying and pasting the patterns of track 16 in Project A to track 16 of Project B, but this is rather cumbersome, especially if you have multiple patterns in Project A. It will also get more complicated and confusing if you already use the pTRSP feature in Project B for its own tracks..
Couldn’t you just make track 16 a solid block of all the notes in an octave in a scale and just have clips for octaves?
Does anyone know of this was updated on the hapax similar to oxi chord harmonizer?
It would be great if octaves were considered
Anyway one know if the chords available on hapax are similarto oxi ? I guess they would be the same.
Im about to buy either oxi or hapax … hapax is first choice at the moment, but the oxi has some things like the chords follow implementation that I would favour
Im.gusssing you used to have the oxi ,
Was it a good move to the hapax after …
I didn’t have the oxi before but I was debating between the hapax and the oxi. I did enjoy the hapax a lot but I haven’t touched it since I got in to tidal cycles a few months back. Still might use it for some live stuff in the future though
Well im I.the market to buy one if your in the UK?
Continuing the discussion from Does hapax have a harmonizer/chord follow mode for melodies?:
Hello, I really like Hapax, but it’s a matter of taste. I think Hapax is superior in UI, very easy to see what you are doing. And I really like the midi EFx and also that you can rout different sequencers to the same midi channel or cv for experimental stuff etc.
But OXI has some things that I would really like to have on Hapax. Harmonizer that follows octaves, bouncing ball/ automatable not synced gate repeats, saving chords, different leingth on drum tracks/automation tracks, maby something more, I don’t remember. Some may exist, just haven’t figured it out yet. Somehow I had more happy accidents with oxi, but the downside of that is that I didn’t really know what I was doing
But the downsides for me on OXI is the UI, shift clicks, menu diving and not clearly seeing what’s happening is a major downside for me. Hapax is more a real piano roll than oxi I think.
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Hi ,
Im keen on the hapax but was also niggling about the chord / harmonizer follow.
I haven’t used it so cant really know if its good or not , but I saw demos of the oxi harmonizer and it seemed better , again I don’t know for sure.
Also picking chords of the oxi seem to be logical and more straight forward?? More chord variations at hand ??
I decided to pick up a 2nd hand oxi one for now to test out [I haven’t given it a run yet]. I will look at the hapax again in the new year.