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Appreciate what you’re doing and willingness to share but it’s hard to get a real sense because your kitchen acoustics are not doing you any favours. What I was able to hear sounded decent.
 
For the outro there are some wrong notes in what you're playing, as well as the harmony. Measures 5 & 6 need different shifts for the D note (-3 then -5) so a single scale won't work there, and E has B (not C#) as harmony in meas. 7. One scale can instead be used for meas. 5 & 8 while another covers meas. 6 & 7.

Also it sounds like B had the wrong shift (-3) in the first measure. I'm not sure if that's from a wrong value (your listed scale shows the correct B -5 shift) or the previous D note ringing and interfering with pitch detection.

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mtripp said:
Bakerman, I think there is a discrepancy in what you wrote about the D note for measures 5/6. Measure 6 should be -4 if I'm not mistaken? I'm going through this now...
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It's -5 semitones, A. Chord is D major there and the harmony is all chord tones, triads except for the F#7 and E7 in measures 2 & 4.
 
Thanks for all the work you’ve put In on this preset. Quick question, this is set up for playing the lower or upper register on the solo?
 
mtripp said:
Sorry for the delayed response, been cooking :D. It is sep up to play the higher parts, hence the negative numbers for all notes in the custom scales. Please let me know how it works out for you!
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What if I want to play the lower notes, do I just do reverse it?
 
mtripp said:
They should be all set up. Are you looking at the custom scales directly on the FM3, or in the Edit? If in the Editor, it will all show the same until you click into one and it will update...

And, you're welcome :D
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I was looking at the gblscale files themselves (using notepad) - they are all showing the same values - I've loaded it and couldn't understand why the harmonies weren't working - I'll try and re-edit the scales myself and fix it but just to let you know really.
 
Post #7 has a link to a thread with block and presets. They are for the last gen hardware (Axe-Fx II and AX8) so they likely will not work.
 
After reading this and our band starting to do this again, I wanted to take a crack at it on my FM3. My requirements were to catch the outro solo arpeggio harmony and I didn't want to have to relearn what I already play. And the less tap dancing the better(fail!).

Hope this helps someone and maybe they can improve on it! I have very little theory background, so I just kept feeling around till I got a note that was the best it could be to my ears while keeping the scene use to a minimum(fail again!) And selfishly, it will also help keep this in posterity for me...

Leveraging all the information from the threads above, I made a new preset(attached):

Scene 1: Rhythm for the song - add drive for the solo
Scene 2: Harmony before the arpeggios - global scale 9
Scene 3: ARP 1(tab pic)/ARP 1(scene name) - global scale 10
Scene 4: ARP 2(tab pic)/ARP 1A(scene name) - global scale 11
Scene 5: ARP 3(tab pic)/ARP 2(scene name) - global scale 12
Scene 6: ARP 4(tab pic)/ARP 2A(scene name) - global scale 13
Scene 7: ARP 5 and 6(tab pic)/ARP 3 - ALL(scene name) - global scale 14
Scene 8: ARP 7 and 8(tab pic)/ARP 4 - ALL(scene name) - global scale 15

Sorry, realized that I shouldn't have used 1-x for the tab pics and scene names, it makes it more confusing.

I did a quick and dirty tab write up as not everyone plays it the same - it's simplified, but if you know the solo, you'll figure it out, it's pretty repetitive.

I'm using 7 global scales(Scene 2 -> ARP 8), also attached. I start at global 9 and go to 15. I think(?) if you import the patch, and import the global scales in the right order, it should just...work?

I have mine set up for the far right scribble script to cycle through each scene - Besides timing the changes, the kicker is when you go around the second time, I have to stomp it twice to get to scene 3 as it's programed to cycle from scene 2 - 8(Scene 2 only gets played one time).

Hope it works and helps someone out there!

Edit: Added global scales if you play it half step down(we do).
 

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