Echo FX : do you use the Note +/-?

Although I find the way the note +/- works is an interesting concept, I find it a bit of a “niche” usage.

I’d love a “simple” mode where you can set up a transposition amount for each repeat. Which is impossible unless I’m wrong.

What are your thoughts about it ?

Tried a Scale or Harmonizer after it?

Can help to tame it.

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Not sure how it would help to add transposition for each repeat. Would you care to explain ?

It wouldn’t - I just meant, for example, running a Scale after it forces the notes into the scale, therefore helping make it more musical etc.

Not a specific answer to your question, just a thought.

Wouldn’t mind a specific amount for each repeat, not sure how musical it would be either though, good for some uses I guess, diminished, octaves, whole-tone etc.

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I have the “Note Echo” of Live as a reference.

I absolutely love the note+/-!!!
As mentioned above, apply scaler afterwards to keep the transposed delay echos in scale.

In my opinion it is one of the core tools for shaping/generating lush polyphonic sequences from fx

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love the scaler trick

Thanks for the replies, but…

That was my original question. I guess it’s just not possible.

So I was playing with the echo feature, Is this what you are trying to do?

However many repeats you have set, set the note+ to the same amount.

eg:
if you have repeat = 1, note+ = 1
if you have repeat = 2, note+ = 2
etc.

You will get 1 semitone per repeat.

If you want larger jumps, set note+ to number of semitones desired per repeat, multiplied by number of repeats.
eg for 1 octave per repeat:
repeat = 1, note+ = 12
repeat = 2, note+ = 24
etc.

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This !
Damn you are either a genius, or I’m stupid !

One thing that I noticed (now I’ve got it working) is that if the same note is repeated before the last echo, it resets the echo pattern.

Example :
set a note on first step in a 16 step pattern.
set an Echo FX (Rate = 1/4, Repeats = X > 4, Note + = X)
the Echo is reset after 3 repetitions.

are you essentially retriggering the note after the third repeat with only 1 bar :person_shrugging: don’t know if that overrides the echo but try a longer seq and see if it still manifests

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I wish the two “sequences” would overlap, that’s all.

Does changing the number of voices help? I haven’t tried it myself because I’m not set up to, but thats what I thought it was for. Maybe it treats the same note differently.

Honestly I had the same problem for a while… it wasn’t until I looked at it again because of your question. I think the thing that threw me is initially I was counting the initial hit, not just the repeats. Dumb in hindsight but yeh… caught me out too

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