hi to everyone, can i find this updated QWS at the websight? with the new
improved transforms?
-----Original Message-----
From: James Bowden
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2014 11:53 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.
>
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