#306

I think it would be helpful if pitch quantization worked in a similar way to how pitch quantization works in other eurorack modules.

Here’s one approach:
http://intellijel.com/manuals/uScale_manual_1.0.pdf

#307

I think he was walking into a BAR

(sorry bad programmer humour)

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#308

I think the point about quantizing already quantized pitches as N opposed to CV is always a problem that causes instable output voltages in modular quantizers.

#309

But the uScale only deals with “continuous” CV, the Teletype has to deal with that, and to deal with quantising discrete integers too. If we only limited ourselves to external CV I feel that we’d be missing a lot. There is much fun to be had “in the box” so to speak.

#310

I’m sorry, I’m not following you at all. I was reacting to this bit:

And what I was pointing out is that these questions have already been resolved by multiple modules, and some consistency is desirable from my point of view.

#311

W is a while() loop. It continues executing until the condition becomes false.

FOO is half of FOOBAR and one third of FOOBARBAZ. :wink:

Wikipedia has you covered.

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#312

I’m not understanding why quantizing discrete integers is harder than quantizing continuous analog values. I’d have thought it would actually be more straightforward.

#313

Let’s do it with numbers instead. You need to quantise an input to 0 or 4, your input is 2. What do you choose? 0 or 4?

#314

I’d prefer a musical example. (This is one of those rare times when theory kind of matters)

#315

Okay, quantise to C or E, the input is D.

#316
#317

The answer is really quite lengthy and it depends on your musical goal. I recommend reading page 2-3 under the “shifting” heading of the uScale manual to understand why this isn’t such a simple question to answer.

#318

Then how am I supposed to write an OP to do it? And wasn’t that the point I was trying to make?

#319

That’s the point - a quantizing function is always the same and does not know about your momentary musical goals. Shifting quantized notes up and down a scale is a different thing though. As shifting the quantizing scale up and down before applying it is.

#320

That wasn’t clear to me, but I agree it’s a bit complex for an OP.

#321

If we’re just talking about a ROUND function, let’s call it that. “Quantizing” implies a more complex musical operation.

#322

When you feed the uScale with already quantized CV, say to whole tones that you want to fit into a scale it gets unstable and jumps between different notes.

#323

Uh, I thought quantizing means fitting random pitches into a given scale format - what is complex about this, apart from choosing a scale that makes musical sense?

#324

Rounding would be a bit tricky if you wanted a scale other than chromatic, surely?

What I want to be able to do is type the following:

X QNT5 0 2 4 7 9 Y

or

X QNT5 0 2 4 7 9 IN

And get X quantised to a pentatonic scale. But the post I was originally making, was saying that it’s not straightforward, as there are lots of edge cases. (Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try though!)

#325

Which is why I was suggesting referring to prior art.

But I’m going to drop out of this thread now. Not sure my comments were actually helpful.