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#71 Octave differentiating background colors

v1.0_(example)
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nobody
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2022-03-27
2022-03-26
agua
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It would be very appreciated to have a different color around each octave to easily spot a not of a specific octave, especially when using the colored view, which gets hard to read without these octave specific desirable background colors.

Discussion

  • Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

    Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas - 2022-03-26

    Ticket moved from /p/vmpk/support-requests/60/

     

  • Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

    Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas - 2022-03-27

    Please elaborate. A picture of what you want to obtain may be helpful.

    I don't know if you are requesting another background palette type, or something else. The "color scale" view mode is just a background palette type, and it can be customized (one color for each diatonic scale degree). See menu: Edit->Color Palette->Chromatic scale highlight.

    Then, menu option View->Show note names->Minimal (or Always) is useful to identify the octave limits.

     

    • Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

      Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas - 2022-03-27

      The configuration option: Edit->Preferences->Visualization->Central Octave Naming (defaults to "C4"), refers to the name of the central C (MIDI note #60) name. You may choose between "C", "C3", "C4" and "C5", and this choice determines the naming of all note labels.

       

  • agua

    agua - 2022-03-27

    Thanks for your answer. As a matter of fact, I am often using vmpk to pick the audio sound of various notes in order to identify them when analyzing a melody, and it would be very practical to rapidly locate the note by going to its suspected octave and then nailing the exact note from there. So it would be great if the whole octaves were identifiable by a colored frame and their number. I show attached 2 suggestions for that. My best choice would go to the octave colored frame version, with octave number centered below its frame. I hope it is clearer explanation. Let me know if not.

     
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    • Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

      Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas - 2022-03-27

      Yes, it is very clear now.

      Your first suggestion is not very appealing for me, but the second one is very similar to something that can be implemented right now in VMPK 0.8.6, without changing anything on the program code. Editing the palette: Edit->Color Palette->Chromatic scale background and then to activate the new palette: View->Color Scale . Please see the attached picture.
      I've configured VMPK with 73 keys instead of the 88 standard keys of your picture, because I don't really use the lowest 3 notes and the uppermost octave, and having less keys on the screen allows larger keys, which is prettier and easier to see for my eyes.

       
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  • agua

    agua - 2022-03-27

    OK. Thanks a lot for your rapid answer and solution is immediately usable, it's fun ! I'd still prefer my first suggestion but your solution is excellent and helps right away!
    Thanks again. Feature request can be closed as far as I am concerned.

     

    Last edit: agua 2022-03-27

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