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9. CHANGE THE KEY AND SCALE Set FUNCTION to any value from 1 to 4. Now turn the KEY
knob slowly to the right while playing notes with your right hand. The display will move through
the twelve root notes of the Western scale, with a decimal indicating Sharp:
Turn the SCALE knob slowly to the right while playing notes. The display will show
numbers are keyed to the label on the bottom of your Altura. The Altura plays a wide variety of
scales and modes. See the Reference Manual for more details.
Playing your scales was never so easy!
10. TRANSPOSE THE OCTAVE Turn the OCTAvE NEAR knob just enough to cause the display to
appear. You should see
a range of 1 – 8), and far from the sensor, you are still playing in Octave 5 – a range of one
octave, probably descending as you move from near to far.
a. Turn the OCTAvE FAR knob left until the display shows
octaves descending: Octave 5 near the sensor, Octave 4 far from the sensor.
b. Turn the OCTAvE FAR knob right until the display shows
octaves ascending: Octave 5 near the sensor, Octave 6 far from the sensor.
c. Turn the OCTAvE FAR knob left until the display shows
range is ascending! Remember it used to be descending? Whenever you set the Altura to
cover one octave, that one octave will ascend if the previous range was ascending, and
descend if the previous range was descending.
11. ARTICULATION It is possible to adjust the minimum time between notes, somewhat similar to the
Quantize function in a sequencer. This serves to strike a balance between responsiveness and
stability. See the Reference Manual for details.
C C. D D. E F F. G G. A A. B
. This means near the sensor, you are playing in Octave 5 (out of
5 5
7
1 - 12
. Now your hand covers two
5 4
. Now your hand covers two
5 6
again. Now this one-octave
5 5
. These
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