PIANO CHORD INTERVALS LAYOUT

Question

Frst timer hope it works.... Any corrections, suggestions etc welcome.

EDIT: Tried upload link to Mid Designer server rather than Dropbox. Fingers crossed I did this right.

http://mididesigner.com/qa/?qa=blob&qa_blobid=15226250645699540251

Ok just a brief description for now. This was made to help me hear a chord spelling in any key quickly. Partly for chord ear training, part Music Theory curiosity. 

So I mapped this layout to iGrandPianos's transpose dial (+/-12) using midiCC 25.

The intervals on the right are mapped and relative to the key C4.

The 25 notes (C3-C5) are mapped to a transpose dial of (+/12) using midi CC25. All intervals on the right become relative to the new transposed key chosen.

The intervals bottom left are also relative to current key, mapped 2 Octaves below the root.

There is a tiny knobl currently hidden from view bottom center. This can be made visible via design mode and can be used as the target of midi learn for iGrand's transpose dial.

Posting this now and will add more detail tomorrow.

 

Big Thanks to Dan, who helped with the questions I had the last few days.

Cheers. :)

 

Answer 1

Hey Spooky, I've enjoyed playing with this tonight, so much that I wished I could just hit a "chord" button and watch the right notes light up and then play over MIDI.  So take a look at what I started, its on a new page tab on the right side called "chords!" 

http://mididesigner.com/qa/?qa=blob&qa_blobid=9877642078214067345

I'm sure someone with better music theory could add a lot more to it, but I just wanted to give an idea of whats possible.  thanks for doing the hard work of this layout, good stuff.

 

 

Comments

This is awesome. A feature I definitely thought would suit this layout. Great work! :)

I'm gonna have a go with more chord stuff today...fingers crossed. :)

Answer 2

Hey Spooky, I've enjoyed playing with this tonight, so much that I wished I could just hit a "chord" button and watch the right notes light up and then play over MIDI.  So take a look at what I started, its on a new page tab on the right side called "chords!" 

http://mididesigner.com/qa/?qa=blob&qa_blobid=9877642078214067345

I'm sure someone with better music theory could add a lot more to it, but I just wanted to give an idea of whats possible.  thanks for doing the hard work of this layout, good stuff.

 

 

Answer 3

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Comments

woah!!!  i can't wait to try this.  

just as an FYI, when you post on the QA forum here you can directly upload the layout:  
click on the hyperlink option in the text box,
then choose upload file and select your file on your PC
then upload it to the server,
then copy the url to put into your post.  

that seems to work better than the dropbox links.

*** also, please delete my "page 3" purple tab I accidentally added to your otherwise sweeeeet layout. :)

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Hey thanks, for trying this out with me!! I'm trying to upload from ipad at the moment, so will try dropbox again...let me know how it goes.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Another Dropbox link for the moment, will try the PC root in a little while...

bit.ly/110uzac in this bitly link.

Long dropbox link https://www.dropbox.com/s/6347kvtx6ibviia/2013-07-17-THEORY%20DAY%202.mididesigner
 

So, I mapped all the chords for Major, Natural, Harmonic and Melodic Minor. The top box are Triads, the lower box are harmonised Sevenths.

I included the 2 octave lower bass in each, but may remove this as the bass notes are available bottom right anyway.

 

There is another page there named Boxes, which is something I was working on, but is  incomplete and needs error checking, but I thought I'd include it to get some feedback. Got loads of ideas to expand on.

 

Suggestions, corrections, tinkering are all welcome!! :)

Comments

BTW.. The page combo is SCALES on left, BASS ON right.

There is also a grey chord page on right named BOXES, but is work in progress (chord names and spellings are currently literal.)

Answer 6

Another Dropbox link for the moment, will try the PC root in a little while...

bit.ly/110uzac in this bitly link.

Long dropbox link https://www.dropbox.com/s/6347kvtx6ibviia/2013-07-17-THEORY%20DAY%202.mididesigner
 

So, I mapped all the chords for Major, Natural, Harmonic and Melodic Minor. The top box are Triads, the lower box are harmonised Sevenths.

I included the 2 octave lower bass in each, but may remove this as the bass notes are available bottom right anyway.

 

There is another page there named Boxes, which is something I was working on, but is  incomplete and needs error checking, but I thought I'd include it to get some feedback. Got loads of ideas to expand on.

 

Suggestions, corrections, tinkering are all welcome!! :)

Answer 7

http://mididesigner.com/qa/?qa=blob&qa_blobid=9322809167266619526

Answer 8

http://mididesigner.com/qa/?qa=blob&qa_blobid=9322809167266619526