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Pre-/Post -FTS Transpose
To complicate matters a little, there are two ways part transpose can be applied. These are pre- and
post-FTS (Force to scale).
To toggle the pre-/post-FTS setting:
hold the FUNC key
•
• press the "PXPos" soft-key, F3
A letter "F" will appear in the display after the value of PXPos to indicate that pre-FTS transpose is
enabled. If there is no "F", transposition is post-FTS.
There are two reasons why you may want to transpose a part.
It may be because you are moving patterns to a different chord root in the same key, or because you
are transposing to a different key.
For example, say you have a pattern that is playing a C major arpeggio.
You want to transpose that pattern, and all the other patterns in your part, to E major. Your FTS
setting is currently C Major.
If you use part transpose to shift the part up by 4 semitones, and you have pre-FTS transpose enabled,
then your major arpeggio will become minor.
This is because the E, shifted up by 4 semitones, becomes G#.
G#, the major third in an E major arpeggio is not in the C Major scale, so the transposed note will be
FTS'd to G – a minor third.
If the part transpose were set to post-FTS, then the arpeggio remains major. This is because E is in C
Major, and the FTS happens before the transposition.
By setting part transpose to post-FTS, in effect you are also transposing the FTS root note as well.
Don't worry too much if this seems complicated.
In practice, you can just try both options, and go with whichever one sounds best.
P3 Sequencer User Manual
Sequentix Music Systems
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