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Re: Microtonal Key Layouts 11 months ago

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

Microtonal Key Layouts 11 months ago

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