Antares ATR-1a manual #D E F#G a B, Why set Scale notes to Blank?

This page allows you to specify the scale notes to which the ATR-1a tunes the input sound. If you have used the Make Scale From MIDI function described above, the notes input via MIDI will already appear on the page and can be further edited here. There are 12 notes in this scale, i.e. C, C#, …etc. Each note in the scale can be set to one of three states:

Tune (i.e., the note name appears in the display, but the “By:” field under

the note is blank): When the input is near a note set to Tune, the ATR-1a will retune the input to that note.

Bypass (i.e., the note name appears in the display and an “*” appears in the “By:” field under the note): When the input pitch is close to a note set to Bypass, the output remains uncorrected.

Blank (i.e., the note name disappears from the display): A note set to Blank will be omitted from the scale. For example, setting C , D , F , G ,

Ato Blank causes a C Major scale to remain. In that case the ATR-1a would always retune the input to the closest note of the C Major scale.

As an example, the following settings result in a D Major scale with no pitch corrections applied to F and C :

23:	C#D E F#G A B
By:	*	*

Why set Scale notes to “Blank”?

To understand why it is sometimes necessary to set even correct scale notes to ”Blank,“ let’s look again at the example from Chapter 1.

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