Question

How do I access piano-key shapes?

Answer 1

The article is here: it's a display option.

Note: this is new in 1.5 which will be released on (or near) 2013-03-04. Display options are also new in 1.5.

Comments

Dan

Congrats on your 1.5 release

I think it would be a lot more intuitive to have this "piano keys" option as soon as you tap screen in design mode.  
You can simply call it "Keys"
And it would be in same level as buttons, fader, x-y, knob. Etc.

You'd choose "keys", then be presented with a second wheel for the key types....

I'd never think a key from keyboard as a button

Just my opinion of course....

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Thanks for that. I agree that it's kind of confusing, but otherwise you couldn't get a toggle piano piano button, drumpad piano button, nor momentary... so really the "type" is the behavior. Anyway, yes, there is some awkwardness in the UI and nomenclature that will have to be resolved at some point.

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Tap on Screen in Design mode
First wheel gives us "keys" option along with buttons, faders, x-y
Next wheel gives us display option,  C/F,  D/G/A. Etc
Next wheel gives us control type, momentary, toggle , drumpad, etc
Then the object gets created and your free to move/resize

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Yes, we'll definitely have some Wizard (to use the Microsoft name) in the future...

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I was almost sleeping but then I thought....
Why not also give us the option to automatically create a 1 octave resizable keyboard...  

I may have more ideas during REM

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What about the satisfaction of having created the keyboard with your bare fingers? Just kidding. Yes, we do need more automatic stuff like that, but compared to real features, like a transpose knob, these are less important. They'll happen, though, eventually.

Thanks!!!

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Hopefully, if the option to 'stick' items to a panel is implemented, anyone can create their own along with other useful control sets and save them on a page like a scrap book for future use.

  I hope panels also still allow for some sort of artistic use without things getting stuck to them when such a feature arrives :)

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Nice comment, popup, as always. I'll keep all this in mind.

We'll discuss this again when I'm closer to implementing panels as something more than an artistic concept.

Answer 2

The article is here: it's a display option.

Note: this is new in 1.5 which will be released on (or near) 2013-03-04. Display options are also new in 1.5.