.I think this request is the exact equivalent to my wished ‘limited piano roll’: Podium allows you choose scales, then keys out of scale are greyed out which is a big help. However there isn’t a switch to limit new/moved notes to the keys in scale (moving up or down them). This is what you need I think.
You can create a work around in Podium using drummap. Download Chromatic scale from:
http://www.zynewave.com/wiki/doku.php?id=miscellaneous:index
Then open any piano roll clip in any track you want to “fold”, switch to drummap mode, open Note Map windows and import the file you’ve downloaded. Now select all the keys you want to eliminate from PR and click on one of their check boxes. All selected rows will be unselected.
Export the scale for inmediate future usage.
While I was making this small tutorial I realized that it would be good ideas:
– change the colour of headers too
– Once you press Edit Next button the Note Name text box should be focused
– Using any shortcut in the NoteMap editor, ie Alt+Click, you should be able to choose all the same keys simultaneously, ie, if you Alt+Click on C#2 then C#-2, C#-1, C#0…..C#8 would be selected too.
Probabily changing the headers colours would do the old Piano roll obsolete for us, since drum roll will do all piano roll can do and more (like this limit to scale request).
Glad you liked it 🙂
Just remember export your work with limited keys, ie, “E Minor” or “Gb Pentatonic Major”, you will save time. Also it’s a good idea use a custom color in the main key of scale like this, ie, E Minor:
also one more to end the feature request bombardment Very Happy – Simply a “Note Map On/Off” button, so if you are working in a key and want to hit some accidentals or do something dissonant, (go back to the standard piano roll/chromatic drum roll) you can just turn off the Note Map and then click on again when you want to be back in your key. [as opposed to going to key map editor, reset, close, and then have to load up your previous saved one when you want to be back in key]
Maybe you could find useful work in drum mode and switch from drum mode to piano roll mode for write those ocassional notes.
This would be a great feature to develop along in Podium, as I feel a lot of the code is already there – just a few more managing features in the Key Map Editor would give full capacity to edit the manner one inputs MIDI to their own needs and likings (and already have the ability to save !) I feel there is a desire for this feature, and many composers would be thrilled to see it further implemented in Podium.
I feel the same!
Is very cool pitch up/down chords and melodies and they always fit in the scale 😉
The problem with this workaround is that drums are confused with melodies (ghost notes), and you cannot use more that one scale in the song. I think a proper PR limiter would be more useful.
@xis23 wrote:
Also what font are you using liquidproj3ct that looks sweeeeeet!
I’m using Weltron Urban, normal and size 14. I think it’s installed with Adobe Reader or Windows Live. If you don’t find it I could upload it for you. The colour scheme is a lightly modified “Acid Energy” and you can download it from Wiki. And a custom editor profile 🙂
I like this as well… not only would it go well together with the drum map design if the piano roll were presented like, for example, Live’s or FL Studio’s…
…but it would then also be quite easy to “fold” unused notes as was suggested, without messing up the piano keyboard image.
The only difference between piano and drum modes would possibly be the lack of solo/mute buttons and (hopefully, for me :wink:) that notes stay the same height regardless of velocity in piano mode.
