Cirklon tips

Gang, I'm talking weird chords. Frank Zappa eat your heart out. Plus no need to practice 'em in advance.

Give it a whirl...
Record a nice long wonky chord progression into a Cirklon pattern of maybe 8 or 16 bars. The sickliest pad you like combined with the sloppiest note play, make up chords that sound terrible if you like, doesn't matter.

Then if you haven't created track valuess for note% and noteC yet, I heartily recommend it. Then listen to your hamfisted chords, already fixed by FTS if you used it, and tweak the noteC and note% values until your chord progression becomes an otherworldly miracle.

Remember other good track values too, all can throw up better stuff than you originally played, with a bit of tweaking and a bag of weed. I especially like length% and quant% - that percent quantize is really cool...

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Another one, simpler one but something you'll enjoy if you didn't try it aleady. FTS is a great way of creating almost Wagnerian levels of tension. Even with a dullish aeolian mode, try a few semitones of transpose at scene level.

Spot the difference between the off and on settings too - this is whether FTS is applied before or after the shift and off can work really well for some odder, tenser scenes. Make a couple of copies of the same scene then try out different transpositions, scales and toggle the on/off setting. It helps give a bit of extra flavour, like some musical spice you bought off the shelf rather than grew yourself...

Force to scale is great and don't forget you can create your own scales. Keep scrolling down the list of scales and you reach the user ones select one. Then with shift and enter you can edit it. This is bound to be in the manual but the notes are lit like filters. Want only the root, select step 1. You can do this interactively as it plays BTW. Add a fifth, more, bring a whole scene from one note to many... you get the idea I'm sure. The note name appears just under the word FTS in scale edit too BTW.

More than just vanilla I say.

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I have been looping the same sequence without wanting to tweak it in any way for perhaps an hour now.
That is what is technically referred to as "a Good Sign". Or at least a sign of something...

Someone once asked me if I meditate. I believe the modern expression is something like "Durh!"