Ah, didn't know about the Control+Right keyboard shortcut -- I guess I need to read the manual again to familiarize myself with things I don't use often.
Here are a few useful Transforms for basic tonal melody and harmony conversion: Natural Minor should be changed to this - C -> C, C# -> D, D-> D, D#-> D#, E-> D#, F-> F, F#-> G, G-> G, G# -> G#, A->G#, A#-> A#, B-> A#. Harmonic Minor - C -> C, C# -> D, D-> D, D#-> D#, E-> D#, F-> F, F#-> G, G-> G, G# -> G#, A->G#, A#-> B, B-> B. Melodic Minor - C -> C, C# -> D, D-> D, D#-> D#, E-> D#, F-> F, F#-> G, G-> G, G# -> A, A->A, A#-> B, B-> B. Also, a conversion to minor as a "generic minor" should be as follows, as in common practice all three minor scales are in use at once by most composers - C -> C, C# -> D, D-> D, D#-> D#, E-> D#, F-> F, F#-> G, G-> G, G# -> G#, A->A, A#-> A#, B-> B. Converting to the various modes then means just changing the root key value to reflect the mode in question. If it'd help for me to write something up about making things conform to modes other then the major (Ionian) and natural minor (Aeolian) modes then I can probably do that before long. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > James Bowden > Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2014 10:53 AM > To: QWS list > Subject: Re: QWS List Whole Tone Scale Transform > > Hi Nicole, > > Thanks for your email. > > Please let me know if you'd like me to add any new transforms, it's > fairly straightforward to do, just let me have a simple list of where > you'd like the 12 notes to go. e.g. C -> C; C# -> C, ... B -> Ab. etc > > Regarding you question about finding the next point where there's data, > Home, as you correctly state, takes you to the first beat where there's > data. The correct key to move to next is Ctrl+Right, just like moving > to the start of the next word in a wordprocessor. > > Hope this helps and I look forward to receiving some interesting note > transforms from you to add. > > With best regards, > > James. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nicole Massey" <[email protected]> > To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 10:39 PM > Subject: RE: QWS List Whole Tone Scale Transform > > > >B is correct, in that it should probably be lowered, but the rest > should > > probably be raised a half step so they still function in their > positions. > > One of the main factors in a whole tone scale sounding alien is the > > removal > > of the leading tone, which is also a factor in most unaltered modes - > - > > only > > the Major/Ionian and Lydian modes have this half step to the tonic of > the > > scale relationship, and doubling the tonic is probably not optimum as > > it'll > > alter the shape of the melody and also make some fundamental changes > in > > the > > harmonic structure of the piece too. > > D#, or Eb is the third scale degree, as a flatted note is far more > common > > than an augmented supertonic note, and the lowered third is common in > the > > minor/Aeolian, Dorian, Phrygian, and Locrian modes. Moreover, > lowering it > > instead of raising it results in a missing tone in the scale, and > since > > the > > third is one of the key color tones in any chord (in fact, the single > most > > common) it should be present. Lowering this removes some of the > character > > of > > the whole tone scale and changes the fundamental melodic shape of the > > line. > > C#/Db is most often encountered in tonal music as either the > Neopolitan > > chord root or as a altered chord extension, and it's never a sharped > tonic > > and always a lowered supertonic. > > F, G, and A are all raised to turn a normal scale into a whole tone > scale, > > so raising them makes clear theoretical sense. > > So, to recap, only the B should be lowered, while the rest should be > > raised. > > And by the way, QWS is an interesting tool for doing score work. > Since it > > functions to some extent as a beat based instead of measure based > MIDI > > player you can do interesting things with it for scoring, especially > if > > you > > know how to calculate the number of beats you need for a particular > sound > > cue. (Excel is wonderful for this) There are a couple of things that > would > > make it easier, like SMPTE support and a way to create a marker list > set > > at > > particular points in a sequence, but it does the job right now fairly > > well. > > The one thing that I found myself wishing for was that pressing the > home > > key > > on a track always takes you to the first note of a track, and there > were > > times when it'd have been nice that subsequent pressings of that key > would > > take me to where music starts up again after a period of no musical > data > > on > > the track. > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of > >> James Bowden > >> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 3:22 PM > >> To: QWS list > >> Subject: Re: QWS List Whole Tone Scale Transform > >> > >> Hello Nicole, > >> > >> I've just checked the whole tone transform and the data looks > correct. > >> Basically, it transforms the following notes unchanged: > >> C, D, E, F#, G#, A#. > >> The other six notes: C#, D#, F, G, A, B, are lowered one semitone to > >> give only wholetones remaining. > >> > >> How would you like to alter this? > >> > >> Hope this helps. > >> > >> With best regards, > >> > >> James. > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Nicole Massey" <[email protected]> > >> To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> > >> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 3:08 AM > >> Subject: QWS List Whole Tone Scale Transform > >> > >> > >> > Hello, folks. > >> > While scoring a short film this week I needed the transforms to > >> convert > >> > one > >> > of my melodies into other scales, and I found what may be a bit of > an > >> > error > >> > with the whole tone scale transform. > >> > A flatted third is converted to a second instead of the third when > >> this > >> > transform is run. I worked around the problem by doing a note > replace > >> to > >> > fix > >> > the note before running the transform again, but this probably > needs > >> > fixing. > >> > This becomes a problem when converting minor or other minor mode > >> melodies > >> > into a whole tone scale, which should be a fairly common problem. > >> > Also, does anyone have a good transform for the harmonic and > melodic > >> minor > >> > scales? Being able to convert something into a Hajaz scale, (also > >> called > >> > the > >> > Egyptian minor or Hungarian minor) which is the 4th mode of the > >> harmonic > >> > minor scale, with a single transform, would be handy. > >> > > >> > To unsubscribe or change list options, see > >> http://lists.andrelouis.com > >> > > >> > for archived list posts, see > >> > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > >> > >> To unsubscribe or change list options, see > http://lists.andrelouis.com > >> > >> for archived list posts, see http://www.mail- > >> archive.com/[email protected] > > > > To unsubscribe or change list options, see > http://lists.andrelouis.com > > > > for archived list posts, see > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com > > for archived list posts, see http://www.mail- > archive.com/[email protected] To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
