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Chromatic Shift

You can use a preset scale based on a C tonic as a starting point, and click the left or right Chrom Shift button to move the preset scale up or down the keyboard. Click the button to use a mode from a preset scale in the tonic C position.

For example, to use the C Lydian mode as the underlying scale, click the Major button, producing C major as shown in the following figure.

C Major scale

Then click the left or right Chrom Shift button until the F Lydian scale moves up or down to arrive on C in the keyboard, as shown in the following figure.

C Lydian mode


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