Deluge Synthstrom Audible Instruction Manual page 16

and down - this may be even more necessary now that the "working area" has expanded
vertically. You can press the "scale" button again at any time to re-enter ​ s cale ​ mode.
To change to a different scale, press shift+scale. The Deluge will cycle through the 7
Western-music "modes", displaying the name of each on the text display: major, minor (aeolian),
dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian, and locrian. If the Deluge instead displays the error
message "CAN'T", this is because the current scale has more than 7 notes. See below for how
to create a custom scale - perhaps you did so accidentally.
When re-entering ​ s cale ​ mode (pressing the "scale" button when it was not previously
illuminated), the Deluge will examine the notes that are present, and make an educated guess
as to their scale and the scale's root note. For instance, if the Deluge detects the presence of a
minor third note relative to the root note, it will be likely to conclude that the scale is minor.
Scales on the Deluge will usually contain seven different notes (eight if you count the octave -
the same as most Western scales). However, sometimes there will be more notes - for instance,
if both a major 3rd and a minor 3rd are present when entering ​ s cale ​ mode, both will be added to
the scale.
The rote note (at every octave) is indicated, anytime that a track is in ​ s cale ​ mode, with its
audition pad permanently illuminated. If you wish to change the root note (e.g. if the Deluge
guessed incorrectly what root note you intended), simply hold down the "scale" button and press
the audition pad for the note that you intend. You may do this whether or not you were already
in ​ s cale ​ mode.
The other way that the scale may be altered and customized is by sharpening or flattening the
notes present in an existing scale. So long as you are already in ​ s cale ​ mode, you may do this
as follows: Hold down the audition pad for a given row / note. The note will sound, and the text
display will indicate the name of the note (a full-stop means "sharp"). While holding the audition
pad, additionally hold down the select knob and turn it to sharpen or flatten the note. Most times,
you can move a note just one semitone in either direction - any further and it would become the
same as the next note in the scale, which is not allowed. If you wish to perform this function
without the note sounding as you press the audition pad (e.g. because you're in the middle of a
performance), this can be achieved by holding down the shift button before pressing the
audition pad.
For songs with multiple tracks, all tracks that are in ​ s cale ​ mode are always locked to the same
scale, for convenience. Any change that you make to the scale while editing one track will affect
all others that are also in ​ s cale ​ mode. Correspondingly, when the Deluge guesses the scale and
root note when re-entering ​ s cale ​ mode, the contents of all ​ s cale ​ tracks will be considered. So if
you're wondering why the Deluge threw some extra notes into your scale that you didn't expect,
it's likely because you have a different track which contains those notes.