How do I set things up to play in a particular scale from Midi In?
If you want to retune to a twelve note scale, enter your scale in the scale box in FTS, and choose diatonic as the arpeggio – the other notes get played as accidentals of the arpeggio. If you want to play some other mode of the twelve note scale, say an Indian Raga, on the white notes, just choose it as the Arpeggio, and keep the original twelve note scale. For instance, modern Indian Ragas are probably best played with the Modern Indian Gamut. In this case, if the mode you are playing has say six notes, they still play from consecutive white keys so the octaves then play at c, b, a’, g” etc. The black keys will play accidentals if there are any in-between notes to play – otherwise they just play the same note as a neighbouring white key. This is an especially convenient layout if you want to frequently change betweeen various modes and find them instantly because they will always just lie on the white keys of the keyboard. So for that reason it is the standard setting when you run FT
