Synthmaster 2 - Why are the “B” keys different colors?

johnfromberkeley

I thought this might be because there is a root note set somewhere. But I can’t find anything like that. What does this mean?

NeuM

Stuck keys? Failure to properly implement state change for keyboard animations?

Jonah66

Interesting, I haven’t noticed that before, I eagerly await the answer.

Philandering_Bastard

As per your screenshot your scale is set to Natural Minor. Try to set it to 12 Tone Chromatic and see whether the phenomenon disappears.

Fingolfinzz

Maybe a visual thing? I’d think the C would be better for that though, idk

espiegel123

It looks to me like it isn't shading the root correctly when Fill mode is on. Or maybe I don't understand how the on-screen keyboard is meant to work. @johnfromberkeley , have you asked the dev ?

HotStrange

Is it still operating normally? Any notes droning on or no?

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Samu

It's perfectly normal, the 'shaded' notes are in the currently selected scale.
Here's the same but I'm using the 'dark' theme...

NeuM

@Samu said:
It's perfectly normal, the 'shaded' notes are in the currently selected scale.
Here's the same but I'm using the 'dark' theme...

Ah, I guess that would explain it.

Samu

Also the 'shade' of the blue keys is identical (just copy & paste the keys in an image editor).

It's more like an optical illusion I guess...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion

A & B squares are exactly the same color...
...total 'Mind FCK!'

espiegel123

@Samu said:
It's perfectly normal, the 'shaded' notes are in the currently selected scale.
Here's the same but I'm using the 'dark' theme...

C natural minor is C D Eb F G Ab Bb

So, if the highlighted keys are the ones in the key, it seems like they have a bug in their natural minor definition -- the highlighted keys C D E F G A Bb are C mixolydian not C natural minor.

musikeer

@Samu said:
Also the 'shade' of the blue keys is identical (just copy & paste the keys in an image editor).

A & B squares are exactly the same color...
...total 'Mind FCK!'

Actually, they're not. When using Apple's Digital Color Meter, A=111 111 111, B=99 99 99.

Samu

@musikeer said:

@Samu said:
Also the 'shade' of the blue keys is identical (just copy & paste the keys in an image editor).

A & B squares are exactly the same color...
...total 'Mind FCK!'

Actually, they're not. When using Apple's Digital Color Meter, A=111 111 111, B=99 99 99.

Yeah, on a 10-bit P3 display it's minor rendering quantization thing, on an sRGB screen its identical RGB values.
If I render it down to 8-bit sRGB the values are identical

NeuM

@musikeer said:

@Samu said:
Also the 'shade' of the blue keys is identical (just copy & paste the keys in an image editor).

A & B squares are exactly the same color...
...total 'Mind FCK!'

Actually, they're not. When using Apple's Digital Color Meter, A=111 111 111, B=99 99 99.

Haha. I love this thread.

musikeer

@NeuM said:

@musikeer said:

@Samu said:
Also the 'shade' of the blue keys is identical (just copy & paste the keys in an image editor).

A & B squares are exactly the same color...
...total 'Mind FCK!'

Actually, they're not. When using Apple's Digital Color Meter, A=111 111 111, B=99 99 99.

Haha. I love this thread.

12 degrees of separation.

cramdog

I tried to display C Natural Minor and C Mixolydian on SM2 for iPad based on what espiegel123 posted. The position where the keyboard color changed was the same for the two scales. I thought that was odd.

I changed the root note from the SETTINGS button on SM2. Natural Minor and Mixolydian changed the color of the keyboard at the same position for each of the root notes. I thought that was odd too.

(I am new to music theory and music software, so it is possible that I am misunderstanding something).

espiegel123

@kv331audio_bulent : in SynthMaster 2, the highlighting for Natural Minor seems to be using Mixollydian rather than natural minor.

johnfromberkeley

@Philandering_Bastard said:
As per your screenshot your scale is set to Natural Minor. Try to set it to 12 Tone Chromatic and see whether the phenomenon disappears.

That fixed it:

1. I thought I fixed that tried that already.

2. I never found where to specify the root note.

3. I’ve worked out the Pantone colors.

Philandering_Bastard

@johnfromberkeley said:

@Philandering_Bastard said:
As per your screenshot your scale is set to Natural Minor. Try to set it to 12 Tone Chromatic and see whether the phenomenon disappears.

That fixed it:

1. I thought I fixed that tried that already.

2. I never found where to specify the root note.

3. I’ve worked out the Pantone colors.

👍

espiegel123

@johnfromberkeley said:

@Philandering_Bastard said:
As per your screenshot your scale is set to Natural Minor. Try to set it to 12 Tone Chromatic and see whether the phenomenon disappears.

That fixed it:

1. I thought I fixed that tried that already.

2. I never found where to specify the root note.

3. I’ve worked out the Pantone colors.

The root note is set in settings.