Hi Guys, I was wondering if anyone could tell me if I’m doing something wrong. When I select a major scale, the last two notes sound flat. For example if I pick C Major, playing up the scale left to right with button 5 defaulted as the Root (c), 6 (d), 7 (e), 8 (f), 1 (g), 2 (a)… BUT 3 and 4 are flat (out of key). So the scale sounds like: c,d,e,f,g,a,ab,b (or something like that) instead of c,d,e,f,g,a,b,c. The exact same thing happens if I start an octave lower with buttons 13, 14, 15, 16, 9, 10 … 12 and 13 sound flat. Thoughts? I tried factory reset and that didn’t help. Thanks!
I don’t know the POs, but are you sure that you’re starting with C?
Pretty sure.
It sounds exactly as you describe on my unit as well. Will try tomorrow with the PO-137 as well to check if there is any difference there
I found out from another forum that in order to keep the scale within the physical 8 buttons on the grid and to be able to continue the scale in the next octave on the first button of the next 8 note grid, they add an additional note on the 7th button (buttons 3 and 11) which completely threw me off. Why there is absolutely no disclaimer of this anywhere is beyond me.
So, if you choose, say, C Major for example, button 5 is the root C, 6 D, 7 E, 8 F, 1 G, 2 A, 3 (A#/Bb?!), 4 B. Same for 13-16, 9-12 (with 11 being A#/Bb?!). Ugh.
I just made the test using sound 5 from PO-35 factory sound (“Vámonos”, which means “let’s go” in Spanish) on itself and PO-137, and it seems completely normal
The tuner shows C-D-E-F-G-A-A#-B on the expected positions (C is button 5 and 13) so you have two octaves
Indeed, the choice of A# is quite weird, since the PO-28 has G# instead. This gives it the ability to use both C major as well as A harmonic minor. The palette is much wider here, though
harmonic minor is a very usefully useful scale to have ! i didn’t know that about Pocket Operator-28