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Clusters

As you explore notes, voicings, chord shapes, and octave manipulations, you may find a few you’d like to confidently land on in a performance. clusters will help here; they store snapshots of the current state of pitch information.

Up to five configurations of these pitch-centric parameters can be captured, and instantly recalled.

The interface again uses the gesture region, and is thus unavailable from within the Scale Editor.

  • To store a cluster, hold chord and press an unlit gesture key.

Storing a cluster captures the current state of:

  • notes
  • chord
  • octave
  • voicing

Recalling a stored cluster uses the same physical gesture:

  • Hold chord and press a lit gesture key.

  • To erase a stored cluster, hold chord, then also hold clear and press a lit gesture key.

Further details

clusters are saved & loaded with patches.

clusters are a powerful tool for setting tonal waypoints within Atrium's landscape. Notice that your current scale selection is not part of their scope! This is by design. Decoupling clusters from scales creates opportunities to describe the general shape of a chord. This shape can be recontextualized by cycling through the scale it voices. Think of them as directions of travel, rather than a strict 'score'.