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I'm currently learning to play a song that's in 7/4 time (Estimated Prophet, by the Grateful Dead). This weird time signature is not easy for me, but it's an enjoyable challenge.
I have my Cubase project set up in 7/4 time, and at the right zoom level I can watch the cursor move along the bars and see where I am in the count. This has been pretty helpful.
Can the Super Knob light flash in time with the music? Could it do different colors for different beats? If I could get it to flash red-green-green-green-blue-green-green for each bar, that would be really helpful.
If this is possible, it would be an amazingly cool feature.
Posted : 05/02/2016 6:50 pm
Stop counting, you'll do better when you don't count, learn to feel it, like you feel 4/4.
Can the Super Knob light flash in time with the music?
That is what it already does.
Your question implies that you don't think the Super Knob is very useful, so we'll leave the rest of the answer as your own personal Easter Egg... with the following hint, between the Knob Auto Play, click count, time signature and the blinking in tempo, we'll say you can definitely create a situation with the Super Knob to help you count out your 7/4.
Think of a phrase that helps "feel" the 5-6-7, you are probably fine on the first four beats.
In fact, try just playing / improvising on the 5-6-7 until you're comfortable.
You can set the Knob Auto Play to move the red ladder indicators that encircle the Super Knob to pulse out your 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 in a number of various ways that will assist you in counting 7/4... There are some dozen or more flashing modes for the Super Knob.
Posted : 06/02/2016 3:55 am
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In retrospect, I wish I had worded that question differently. It came from watching a number of demo videos in which the flashing Super Knob light seemed to have no discernible relationship to the music being played. It's not that I thought the light was useless, but that I hadn't seen any demo in which it was doing something that looked useful to me.
I'm working hard to get to where I can feel the 7 instead of counting it. At this point, I'm playing various bars of the song as 3-4, 4-3, 3-2-2, 3-1-3, etc. I still lose the count occasionally, but the Cubase bar display helps. A flashing visual metronome would also help.
I'm eager to try out a Montage when I get the chance. I'm not feeling negative about this new synth at all, just trying to figure out the tradeoff between buying one vs sticking with my XF.
Posted : 06/02/2016 7:45 am
Whether to upgrade to Montage vs keeping XF, I have taken the approach to order the Montage and to research it peacefully at home (I tried it in the cacophony at NAMM) in comparison with my XF (and SY77). Worst case I can return the Montage, however I can not really imagine that to happen.
Regarding the super knob light I believe I will turn the flashing off but keep the light on.
Posted : 06/02/2016 2:42 pm
