Reply To: on diatonic transposition

hi SomaLabs,

sorry, I may have worded poorly, as I’m not English native speaker.

It’s not “playing completely different tunings that rapidly change each other”, it’s literally the opposite: having the exact same scale whilst pitch shifting.
E.g. to keep it simple, I have keyboard sensors 1-12 set to
C2-E2-F2-G2-C3-D3-E3-F3-G3-A3-B3-C4
and that’s in C major scale.

Now if I want to keep the C major scale I can only transpose by octaves, since if I chromatically transpose by +7 I get a G major scale, as a perfect fifth above B3 is F#4, and the same occurs with +5 which gives me Bb4 and Bb3 as a perfect fourth above F is Bb and I get an F major scale; these (and their negatives) are the nearest (that is to say with the least accidentals) transpositions on the circle of fifths.

What I meant is that if I’m to save a preset with keyboard sensor tunings set to
C2-E2-F2-G2-G3-A3-B3-C4-D4-E4-F4-G4
that it’s the same C major just a perfect fifth higher, by recalling it by means of the pitch shifter, I could smoothly (and by smoothly I mean keeping the upper part of the lower octave and the lower part of the upper octave) lift the melody (or the harmony) upward whilst keeping all the sensors in scale.
The aim to which it’s directed makes perfect musical sense: it’s diatonic transposition and it would made playing easier indeed.

Hope I made my points clearer to the developer that kindly replied, so that he/she may be willing to better consider my thoughts.

In any case, thank you very much for your attention. Much appreciated.