Yannis
PITCH SHIFTING simply raises/lowers the pitch of a *fixed* set of cents.
So if you set +400 cents, any note will be up_shifted by a major third. It has no relationships with diatonic scales. It sets only a fixed interval.
DIATONIC PITCH SHIFTING assumes you play a tune in a scale/tonality and you need notes to be shifted within THAT scale. So you set scale ROOT, scale TYPE and interval. If you choose C Major scale and third, every note played in that scale will be up_shifted a DIATONIC third, correctly staying in the scale.
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