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Hi everyone.

Firstly, thank you Eigenlabs!!! I am absolutely blown away with the Pico. It is so sensitive, and dynamic... and thanks to you, I am no longer musically disabled :)

I am having issues with the standard Pico fingering - namely that due to disability, my left hand is quite weak and I cannot hit the buttons hard enough to trigger the piano sound properly.... So I've been adapting to using just the right hand for those types of sounds - and the standard Pico fingering just doesn't seem natural for me.

I am wondering if there is any way to set up the Pico so that the two rows mimic a standard stringed instrument - going up chromatically with each 'fret' - with a choice of setting the strings to be in 5ths (like a violin) or 4ths? And preferably being able to use the two scroll buttons as well? I'd like the octave jump buttons to go up and down in 5ths rather than octaves.

Is this possible? Am I making sense?

Many thanks!

You can't currently use the two scroll keys as playing keys (hopefully that's coming soon), but you CAN define the notes of the other keys to anything at all using user define scales. See this thread for examples:

http://www.eigenlabs.com/forum/threads/id/226/

Tony

Thank you so much Sam! Im going to attack it now!

& Thanks Kayla and Tony too!

It's explained here:

http://www.eigenlabs.com/faq/eigend/can-you-define-your-own-scales-to-use-with-the-ei/

The text file should already exist at Library/Eigenlabs/Scale Manager/User Scales.txt - you can just add the scales listed above to the bottom of that file, then save it.

You will then have to replace one of the existing scales on the Pico to use the custom scales - one of the video tutorials takes you through tha process (I forget which one - maybe #2 or #3).

Tony

stuwyatt, I found that when copy/pasting from the website, the user scales didn't work. Probably due to additional hidden characters and/or formatting. When I typed it in manually, it worked. Thought you might want to know :-)

I've inverted the two scales above, and have also been creating scales that go up the keyboard in the same way that they would with a stringed instrument.

I'll leave them here if anyone else wishes to give them a go:

[Two courses major]
;This scale is a major scale on two courses
intervals=0 2 4 5 12 14 16 17 7 9 11 12 19 21 23 24 24

[Two course minor harmonic]
;This scale is a minor scale on two courses
intervals=0 2 3 5 12 14 15 17 7 8 11 12 19 20 23 24 24

[Two course minor melodic]
;This scale is a minor scale on two courses
intervals=0 2 3 5 12 14 15 17 7 9 11 12 19 21 23 24 24

[2 Oct Two courses major]
;This scale is a major scale on two courses - 2 octaves apart
intervals=0 2 4 5 24 26 28 29 7 9 11 12 31 33 35 36 36

[2 Oct Two course minor harmonic]
;This scale is a minor scale on two courses - 2 octaves apart
intervals=0 2 3 5 24 26 27 29 7 8 11 12 31 32 35 36 24

[2 Oct Two course minor melodic]
;This scale is a minor scale on two courses - 2 octaves apart
intervals=0 2 3 5 24 26 27 29 7 9 11 12 31 33 35 36 24

[3 Oct Two courses major]
;This scale is a major scale on two courses - 3 octaves apart
intervals=0 2 4 5 36 38 40 41 7 9 11 12 43 45 47 48 36

[3 Oct Two course minor harmonic]
;This scale is a minor scale on two courses - 3 octaves apart
intervals=0 2 3 5 36 38 39 41 7 8 11 12 43 44 47 48 24

[3 Oct Two course minor melodic]
;This scale is a minor scale on two courses - 3 octaves apart
intervals=0 2 3 5 36 38 39 41 7 9 11 12 43 45 47 48 24


[Fifths chromatic]
;This scale is tuned to the chromatic scale, but with two courses tuned a fifth apart.
intervals=0 1 2 3 7 8 9 10 4 5 6 7 11 12 13 14 14

[Fourths chromatic]
;This scale is tuned to the chromatic scale, but with two courses tuned a fourth apart.
intervals=14 5 6 7 8 0 1 2 3 9 10 11 12 4 5 6 7



The 2-octave and 3-octave scales are quite fun to use with the piano - as it allows you to hold deep bass notes while you can flutter around with the higher register.

I also sent the following idea to the developers, and I'd be interested to hear what other people think about it:

Pitch shift mode
==========

Activated by pressing both of the octave buttons together.

Buttons 1-12 light up in red, with the default button 12 in green (indicating the buttons currently switch octaves). Pressing any of the buttons 1-12 will mean that the octave keys jump up and down based on those steps.

I was thinking that button 13 could toggle whether the pitch change also changes the bass key or not - or whether it just extends the playing range of the current key (if that makes sense).

Button 16 could be a simple escape button that goes back to whatever mode/instrument you were playing with.

Ah thanks. I'll dive into the wiki soon. One thing I noticed was that in the descriptions, I forgot to change the word major to minor when I copied and pasted.... I'll change the ones in this thread above/