From Lewis McRae to ~earboxer/HexBoard
> 'tuning to a color' is currently complicated Oh okay, what do you mean by that as opposed to the current alternate colour mode? Or is it just that making it work with keys and transposition is complicated? > We're also thinking about changing 'layouts' to 'presets', e.g. "use this color scheme for that layout, with that number of tones" I definitely like the idea of having colour schemes and key layouts combined in that way; could potentially also let you disable the LEDs if a layout has keys that are outside the playable range (though I guess you could also just shift the highest / lowest notes by an octave to keep them playable). I also like Nick's idea of using MIDI note 69 = A4 as a constant for note mapping, as it seems like that's
From Lewis McRae to ~earboxer/HexBoard
Hey Zach, Lewis here. I made those mockups of the 41edo key mappings and Jared showed me your photo of the working LED layout. I feel like I could elaborate on what the idea behind them was and what I was hoping could be possible with the Hexboard. My original idea was mainly that there could be some way for people to easily set up their own key colours alongside new note layouts, since note layouts can be added pretty easily by editing the firmware. My thinking was that you could do it by defining a set of colours and either mapping each key on the board to a colour, or mapping each note in a particular tuning to a colour. I figure it's possible that someone might want to try different note colours for the same tuning (like for that third 41edo layout, maybe it would be better to recolour the notes so that the "rainbow" runs up and down the columns