trumpet layout

Question

Hi. I want to know is it possible to configure only three buttons, so they'll send different notes in various combinations, like with trumpet valves? For example, button 1 gives you C note, button 2 is D, button 3 is E, but when you press buttons 1 and 2 at the same time, it will give you note А and so on. Thanks in advance.

Comments

Thanks for the question, it's a great (very cool and original) idea but not something that you can currently do in the app. We'll consider it a suggestion for now, if that's okay with you.

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It's really a fascinating suggestion. MD doesn't do ANY chords of any kind, and the only provision of this is the opposite -- Button Groups -- where are basically a way to ensure that combinations do not happen. Thanks for sharing.

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In fact, what I've tried to replicate with MD is my own DIY midi controller, on which I'm working right now. It have only six buttons.

Three of them give you a major scale in different combinations, close to the one that I've described in the initial post.

The last three are for transposing the current playing note:
First is for altering note up for a half step.
Second one transposes note one octave up.
Third one transposes note one octave down.
Second and third together transpose note two octaves up.

So, the lowest possible note is C3. The highest is C6. All chromatic notes between this two are avaliable by pressing different combinations of six buttons.

With the accelerometer of the iPad, controling the note velocity, I could've get myself a pretty decent midi controller layout to play any melody.

Hope you find this concept interesting and could help me making this layout with MD.

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That really does help. The idea would be to take this idea of "chords" and move it forward to a general concept of which the trumpet layout is just one example. Thank you, we've got this information queued with the feature request. No idea, yet, on when this will happen.

Answer 1

I'm also interested in this functionality.  I'm completely new to MD.  Can Bit Changers help at all?

Answer 2

I'm also interested in this functionality.  I'm completely new to MD.  Can Bit Changers help at all?