MOS substitution

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MOS substitution is a procedure for obtaining a ternary (3 step sizes) scale from two MOS patterns. It consists of taking one MOS pattern (called the template MOS), choosing a step size, and overwriting all instances of that step size using the step pattern of another MOS pattern (called the filling MOS). Unlike MV3 scales, a MOS substitution scale may have any combination of step sizes.