2025-03-20 (Th) EWC_Soother Non-scale notes play above or below on scale

I had to reconfigure the USB↔MIDI adapters again. I do not know why it would stop working after powering off and back on. I used to calculate the scales based on an A note, but I rewrote the math to calculate based on C, which I learned is traditional. I moved two pieces of tape around on my keytar to reflect the update. I updated some note recalculation functions to be more efficient and less messy. During testing, I realized that if I used the prandom note selection of suitably distant notes, I could play four unique pitches without changing keys and wobbling my fingers back and forth. This technique was especially effective with sustained instruments, like a pipe organ.

I noticed that the last note in each octave played without modification, and it was not on the minor pentatonic scale, so it could be an unharmonious sound and was definitely a bug. I expanded my scale array to include 12 so I could run the same comparison as before and calculate that 11 required recalculating. The updated function worked once I expanded the currentArray[] and ran another comparison. Since I added 12 to the array, the pseudo-random option could raise note 11 for a continuous feel between octaves.

Selecting notes playing pseudo-randomly

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