The Intellijel µScale II is an intelligent quantiser and interval generator module. This is a highly versatile and very musical device for creating interesting, beautiful and harmonious musical riffs from just about any analog CV sources. Featuring 12 buttons with matching dual colour LEDs for selecting scale notes in real time (and visual feedback of quantizing), this module processes 0-10V (as 1V/oct) in the ‘in’ input and accepts 0-10V or ±5V on the ‘shift’ input (jumper selectable) for a shift range of ±12 semitones or ±12 scale degrees. The µScale II features two 0-10V outputs (A and B) with 1V/oct scaling, and output B is A user selectable interval based on the root note on output A.
This interval can be chromatic (fixed semitones) or diatonic (interval is within the current scale and the value is based on scale degrees) and can be a bipolar value of ±12. The shift has user selectable destinations of note A, B, A+B or the scale root, and has user selectable modes of where shifting occurs: before scaling, in scale (diatonic) or post scale (key shifting). With a menu for shifting the scale root manually, there is also a special ‘scale shift” mode that allows the “shift” input to select scales from the current bank (so 12 scales can be selected by CV). This module can store 12 scales in 12 banks for a total of 144 different user scales and ships with 5 banks preloaded with scales (they can be erased by the user and reprogrammed).
The main features of the Intellijel µScale II include: