Scale-O-Mat - User Manual
Scale-O-Mat is a M4L Scale Device for Ableton Live, where you can change a scale over your whole Live Project and do some more little Tricks ;-)
Overview
- A: All Scale Effects are listed here
Here you can find all Scale Midi Effects inside your Live project where you can assign, the Scales to the individual Scale Device.
It’s also possible to assign the Parameter Mappings to multiple Devices.
You can store up to 128 assignments inside the Presets. - B: here you can mange all your Scales
Here you have all your Scales. On the Top you can store up to four Scales inside 128 Presets. Below you have a Live Input, where you match your scales in realtime while playing the keyboard.And last but not least you can assign the Scale Effects to Chord-O-mat, also here the Scales matches in realtime, when playing a Chord in Chord-O-Mat. - C: Assign & Control the Scale Settings
How to detect the Ableton Scale Effects?
First we need to scan all Scale Effects inside the Live Project.
If you click on the “Refresh” Button you can Scan all Scale Midi Effects inside your Live Project.
You can select also an Scale Device and it’s highlighted inside Ableton Live.
Scale Presets / Clipboard
You can paste a Scale from the Clipboard into one of the four Scale Presets from the Clipboard, by clicking one of the yellow buttons.
The Clipboard stores the last scale you set or played, whether selected from the Scale Selection in the top-left corner, the Live Input, or from Chord-O-Mat. This scale can then be pasted & stored inside one of the four Scales.
Assign the Scales to the Scale Midi Effects
To assign a Scale to a Scale Midi Effect, just select the Scale Device inside the browser and hit the ”+” of the Scale.
You can assign
- one of the four preset Scales
- one of the two Live inputs
- the Chord-O-Mat Chords or Scales
How to Control the Scale Midi Effect?
Independent from the assignment of the Scales, you can assign, one of the four Control Sections to any of the Scale Devices inside your Ableton Live Project.
That means you can build up two four different groups to control or modulate certain Scale Midi Effects.
the Presets
& how to get creative with your musical scales
Inside Scale-O-Mat you find two Preset Controls, one for the Scale Mappings and one for the Scales. You can store up to 128 Presets to each, which means you have endless possibilities to modify, experiment and play with your Scale Settings.