Quantize

Snaps any note to the nearest one in the chosen scale

Open in the synth with a demo patch Open Modular

What it does

Quantize takes any note and pulls it to the nearest degree of the chosen scale above the chosen root. This is why random notes in Modular sound musical: whatever generated them, only notes from the scale come out. Pentatonics almost never clash, Lydian sounds bright and floating, and Chromatic lets everything through unchanged.

Try this

Send Random Note through Quantizer so its surprises stay within a chosen scale.

Ports

in: Note in
out: Note snapped to the scale

Parameters

Root · Scale

Try this

Minor pentatonic is the safe bet for ambient: any two notes in it sound fine together.
Switch the scale from minor to Lydian while the patch plays and listen to the mood change.
Run both the melody and the drone through one Quantize so they always share a key.

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