Force to Notestack : feature idea

[Duggle]

The idea is a cross between force-to-scale and an arpeggiator notestack.

 

Put simply, the note values of a midi stream get shifted to conform to a notestack that comes from a different midi stream. The notestack would be optionally extended by octaves up and down so that it's more like a scale that a simple notestack.

 

Is it possible to do this already?

 

The usecase I have is actually for live playing: The electronic drummer/percussionist plays tuned percussion that conforms (in terms of note value) to what I'm playing on one of my keyboards, or alternatively what comes from a local keyboard zone or sequencer track. 

[lukas412]

This is a very cool idea. Would make jamming with someone else effortless.

[Duggle]

Of course rhythm and phrasing may or may not be effortless  :smile:

 

Anyhow, something similar appears to be in the midiForceToKey plugin from the (free) pizmidi VST collection. It can optionally source the scale info from another channel. So I plan to experiment with this feature by routing the various midi streams through a PC or mac host from the SEQ and try to find out if this is a worthwhile feature to consider including in SEQ. 

[TK.]

If this really makes sense, then I could probably provide it as a special MIDI router option (this would actually be a bad place, but I've no better idea where to put such an "unrelated" feature without much programming effort)

 

Best Regards, Thorsten.

[Duggle]

Thanks TK, I'll post back with my observations after I've experimented with the idea.