Cool alternate fingering for semitones in chords (quantize hold!)

[zitongcharliedeng]

I LOVE this layout. Makes so much sense! The 2D visualisation of the circles of fifths, chord resolutions, quartals, blahtals blah blah it's so cool! Hope this is the right place to post this fun thing I found.

VID_20260117_211850.mp4

[zitongcharliedeng]

Update: Added a video demo!

I've also created PR #15 which adds software chromatic quantization to midimech. This allows hitting semitones between whole-tone pads without needing the wiggle technique shown above.

With chromatic_quantize=true and all LinnStrument quantize settings OFF, you can now reliably hit semitones just by pressing between pads - no wiggling required. The whole_tone_bias setting lets you tune the zone balance (0.15-0.2 works well for speed bump surfaces).

See: #15

[zitongcharliedeng]

One more note: without any quantization enabled, every note has slight microtonal errors from human imprecision - chords sound a bit off and unintentional.

At this pad scale, you can really only aim for semitones or whole tones intentionally. The frets are too small to reliably hit specific microtones. So software chromatic quantization (chromatic_quantize=true) eliminates these errors while still letting you hit all 12 semitones.

whole_tone_bias=0.25 seems to be the sweet spot for speed bump surfaces - makes whole tones easier to hit while semitones are still accessible when you aim for them.

[flipcoder]

Nice work! Thanks for the additions. I knew about the wiggle technique to hit semitones (very useful for the blues scale). Software quantization seems like the way to go. Can't wait to test it all out soon.