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Torley
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by Torley » Sun May 10, 2009 11:31 pm
Friendly greetings!
I'm enjoying Ableton Live very much and glad to be here with all of you. I'm looking for a visualizer, perhaps an AU/VST plugin, that displays which MIDI keys are pressed clearly, in the form of a traditional piano keyboard where the keys glow. I know some VSTs have a little keyboard but they're usually too tiny — I'd like something smoothly scalable, along the lines of how I can do it in MainStage.
My goal with this is to make some instructional tutorials and have fun — any tips would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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smog g
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by smog g » Mon May 11, 2009 4:22 am
well my friend there are plenty of free vst plugins which display midi events / data but they arent very graphical. are u on pc or mac?
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Torley
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by Torley » Tue May 12, 2009 5:07 am
Sorry I forgot to mention, I'm on Mac! As I mentioned, I know plugs like Kontakt have a little keyboard, but it's not sufficient in scope for my plans.
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by max2f » Tue May 12, 2009 8:58 am
hi
as i'm fooling with some chord and scale pitch effects it would be pretty cool to see the processed midi data. so long i help myself with another blank midi track where i can "resample" the midi. that can get tyring. such an app where i can choose in the signal path and visually show it on a piano would be super cool for my needs. anybody knows of such an application? maybe the abes could integrate something like this? (pretty much like the tiny one in the midi effect rack chain but bigger!!!)
cheers
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smog g
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by smog g » Tue May 12, 2009 9:02 am
i think i remember tobybear has some...but pc only?!
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by seba » Tue May 12, 2009 10:25 am
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by hoffman2k » Tue May 12, 2009 11:13 am
How about using just a MIDI Effect Rack?
The Key Zone editor of a MIDI Effect Rack displays which notes are currently being played.
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by max2f » Tue May 12, 2009 5:56 pm
hoffman2k wrote:How about using just a MIDI Effect Rack?
The Key Zone editor of a MIDI Effect Rack displays which notes are currently being played.
yes, it displays tiny keys as i wrote. its ok, but big ones would be sweet
still thanks for trying to help
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by smog g » Tue May 12, 2009 6:38 pm
why dont u just make a public announcement here in the forum and ask a vst programmer o write your little plug. would take him 15minutes. maybe you can offer some samples or loops of yours. it worked wo me with the donothing plug (dummy for midi)
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by hoffman2k » Tue May 12, 2009 6:39 pm
max2f wrote:hoffman2k wrote:How about using just a MIDI Effect Rack?
The Key Zone editor of a MIDI Effect Rack displays which notes are currently being played.
yes, it displays tiny keys as i wrote. its ok, but big ones would be sweet
still thanks for trying to help
You can make them bigger by right-clicking.
On OsX you could use MIDI-Keys
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16702
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by max2f » Tue May 12, 2009 9:02 pm
hoffman2k wrote:max2f wrote:hoffman2k wrote:How about using just a MIDI Effect Rack?
The Key Zone editor of a MIDI Effect Rack displays which notes are currently being played.
yes, it displays tiny keys as i wrote. its ok, but big ones would be sweet
still thanks for trying to help
You can make them bigger by right-clicking.
On OsX you could use MIDI-Keys
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16702
oh great. i didnt know that. maybe not enough for a video tutorial but for me the right-clicking is a big step forward
i will try "midi-keys" later
thanks a lot,
max
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Torley
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by Torley » Wed May 13, 2009 5:25 am
MidiKeys on Mac is great fun. Wish it showed all 88 keys but I wrote the author, thanks for the tip.
Made a little video with it.
Some of the other plugins look nifty but are only for Windows — hope they're of use to someone here.
Will have a look at the key zone editor!
Any more tips for scalable Mac on-screen keyboard which highlight played notes would be graciously appreciated.
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by S4racen » Wed May 13, 2009 10:53 am
And i'd love just such a device that i could label each key with the dummy clip that i've got mapped to it, that way i'd have quick visualisation of the effects i've got stored....
I WOULD LOVE THIS! (but i don't know the first place to start, would this sort of thing be able to be done in Max?) - Plus i'd like to extend it so that i could display an 8 x 8 grid that could be customer labelled and give feedback on screen....
Cheers
D
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by dentaku » Wed May 13, 2009 3:14 pm
GTG Micro Keyboard 3 is nice. I was wondering if someone had created something like that.
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