Scale per Track: Looking for a simple explanation

[krunchr]

Thank you all.

Nothing complicated here: I mostly just use 4/4 as time signature, mostly the usual stuff with 64 steps and 1/16 notes per step. However, I often use very slow chord progressions in my music. For this I use dividers (SCALE). I have understood this as well. When there was no Scale per Track at DT, I always did it that way:

Digitakt tips and tricks

How to make slow chord progressions (e. g. four chords, each four bars long) with only 64 steps: Assign four MIDI tracks to the same MIDI channel. Set the desired chord on the first step (and don’t forget to set LEN = 64, when each chord should sound four bars). Set the trig conditions for the respective chord steps to 1:4, 2:4, 3:4 and 4:4. Of course, this method costs four MIDI tracks. But it opens up way more musical possibilities.

Basically I can do everything I want to do at the moment. But I want to understand the scale page completely, because I think there are very interesting possibilities hidden behind it.

Here are two things I don’t really understand (even after reading the manual):

• What does the second number of the parameter LENGTH mean? The left number describes the number of steps in the pattern. The meaning of the right number according to the manual is “the maximum number of steps available in the pattern”. Sounds identical to me.

• In the pattern parameters, I only understand the meaning of M.LEN, but not of CH.LEN.