Help Needed: Snap to Key/Scale Feature?

[tommyzai]

Hi! One of the classes I teach is filled with non-musical students, and I'd like to have them experience the enjoyment of creating. I think it would be really cool if I could select a scale/key and have all notes in key play/record and ignore out-of-key notes . . . or snap them into key. Does any DAW or other audio software do this? It would be extra cool if I could also make adjustments/exceptions to the basic key/scale rules, i.e., b7, etc.

I'm hopeful such a thing exists. If not, it should.

Thank you!!

[pdxindy]

Pretty much every DAW can do that

[tommyzai]

Pretty much every DAW can do that

Can you give me an example? I have a few DAWs and never discovered such an option. I hope/trust you are correct. It would be wonderful to see students banging away on the keys without being out of key.

[kev2525]

Cubase has this feature. See this link :

[tommyzai]

Shoot! I no longer have Cubase. ;-( Can any other DAWs do this?

[hma]

there is Piz midi vst plugin called midiForceToKey that does this.
In https://code.google.com/archive/p/pizmidi/downloads look for "pizmidi_x64_20111013.zip"

[Jolaff]

Shoot! I no longer have Cubase. ;-( Can any other DAWs do this?

Wouldn't it be simpler if you name what DAW you have ?

[pdxindy]

Shoot! I no longer have Cubase. ;-( Can any other DAWs do this?

Ableton, Bitwig, Studio One... I bet Reaper can

[tommyzai]

Shoot! I no longer have Cubase. ;-( Can any other DAWs do this?

Wouldn't it be simpler if you name what DAW you have ?

Or . . . what DAW I will get! Which DAWs besides Cubase can do this? I'm intrigued by a special plugin, but if a DAW has this built in . . . . Can any DAW allow users to set key/scale and ignore out-of-key notes? Can exceptions be selected?

These students have enough failure in their lives. They need some good notes before I introduce the bad.

[pdxindy]

Hive can constrain itself to a scale...

[tommyzai]

Hive can constrain itself to a scale...

Will it allow for exceptions, e.g. a flatted 7th? Will it do keys and scales?

[BertKoor]

Tell them brats to use only the black (or white) keys

[Jolaff]

Ableton live... fl studio ...

Or just tell them to only use white notes... and use a pitch shifter to change tonality... that way you can introduce slowly "exceptions"...

[pdxindy]

Shoot! I no longer have Cubase. ;-( Can any other DAWs do this?

Wouldn't it be simpler if you name what DAW you have ?

Or . . . what DAW I will get! Which DAWs besides Cubase can do this? I'm intrigued by a special plugin, but if a DAW has this built in . . . . Can any DAW allow users to set key/scale and ignore out-of-key notes? Can exceptions be selected?

These students have enough failure in their lives. They need some good notes before I introduce the bad.

Most of the major DAW's today can do that one way or another. Live, Bitwig, FL Studio, Studio One, Cubase... Reaper too I think.

[tommyzai]

Hmmm, I wonder if Logic can do this. I assumed Cubase would and possible Reaper as it seems to have every feature buried in there somewhere, but not the others.