MIDI keyboard scale lock

pstone19

Hi all
Quick question-- if I were to buy a midi keyboard like akai or the CME, can I remap to smart scale lock using an app? I know korg nanokey studio does this automatically.
Thanks

nrgb

gonekrazy3000

Thumbjam is your friend. It's white keys only scale lock is amazing.

pstone19

But do these map to hardware as well? Ie can I make all white keys of a hardware keyboard do any scale ?

To really to it to next level, remap the black keys to chords using navichord or something?

[Deleted User]

I use mine with AB3 and midiflow app scale and when I play it no matter if I hit the black keys they sound in the scale pretty cool.

Will

@pstone19 said:
But do these map to hardware as well? Ie can I make all white keys of a hardware keyboard do any scale ?

Yep. Both the MIDIFlow Scales and Thumbjam work with an external MIDI source.

To really to it to next level, remap the black keys to chords using navichord or something?

Cool idea. Should be doable with the filter modes in MIDIFlow Scales + MIDIFlow transpose so that you could get the correct chords coming out. I'll look forward to your AB3 preset!

gonekrazy3000

@pstone19 said:
But do these map to hardware as well? Ie can I make all white keys of a hardware keyboard do any scale ?

To really to it to next level, remap the black keys to chords using navichord or something?

That's exactly what I'm saying. Thumbjam can make your physical keyboard map the selected scale to the white notes only. Say you pick g minor. All the C keys become G. And from g to g it's the scale you selected. The Black keys just play the same notes as the white key before or after it so you can ignore them completely.

eustressor

@gonekrazy3000 said:

@pstone19 said:
But do these map to hardware as well? Ie can I make all white keys of a hardware keyboard do any scale ?

To really to it to next level, remap the black keys to chords using navichord or something?

That's exactly what I'm saying. Thumbjam can make your physical keyboard map the selected scale to the white notes only. Say you pick g minor. All the C keys become G. And from g to g it's the scale you selected. The Black keys just play the same notes as the white key before or after it so you can ignore them completely.

The devil you say? (said the metalhead keyboard plonker, half-amazed)

@syrupcore said:

@pstone19 said:
But do these map to hardware as well? Ie can I make all white keys of a hardware keyboard do any scale ?

Yep. Both the MIDIFlow Scales and Thumbjam work with an external MIDI source.

To really to it to next level, remap the black keys to chords using navichord or something?

Cool idea. Should be doable with the filter modes in MIDIFlow Scales + MIDIFlow transpose so that you could get the correct chords coming out. I'll look forward to your AB3 preset!

I just knew those MIDIflow apps were going to be useful ...

pstone19

That's great! Thanks for all the info folks! Now I guess on that note, between the akai Mk2, korg nanokey studio, qunexus for a keyboard midi controller for a non-pianist with no aspiration of improving, any suggestions?

pstone19

Bump??