Hi,
I bought a MIDI keyboard that has an SD card slot. I have no musical background. I want to be able to play quarter tones on the keyboard. Which version of the software would allow me to do this? Also, any tutorial videos or instructions on how to achieve this?
Thank you.
Dear Fadi,
i may missinterpret your question, but like you said: you know not much about music at all.
Accepting that as a fact, here is my answer.
You can play quarter notes with any keyboard (or instrument), regardless of SD slots or not and without any software.
To play a note you need to hit a key. If you want to play a certain note, you need to know which key to hit. If you want it to be a quarter note, you need how long a quarternote lasts.
A quarter note lasts (hence the name) one quarter of a bar. So, the time between hitting the key and releasing it determines if this was a quarter note. This is related to timing and rhyrhm.
If you cannot do this, software comes into play (sic.) DAWs have a feature called Quantising. This allows to press the desired key without care for when exactly and for how long it was pressed. This is best used in step mode. To make use of this, you need no playing skills (sometimes even not knowing which key you need to press), but you still need to know how to use the given DAW and how to apply some basic theory (beats per minute, meassures and alike). The DAW then makes the timing fit.
If you ask which version of pianoteq allows to do this - any!
Pianoteq provides the instrument (piano in most cases). You provide the playing skills.
If you do not have them, you need to aquire some. You tube is full of stuff how to play. If you really want to invest time to learn, picking random you tube vids is not successfull. You need to follow a planed schedul. Visiting a teacher or subscribing to an online course, where you are guided to the process.
If you want to create music without any playing skills or knowledege, the is a lot of AI tools available these days. These do not even require you have an instrument of any given kind.
Hi,
I bought a MIDI keyboard that has an SD card slot. I have no musical background. I want to be able to play quarter tones on the keyboard. Which version of the software would allow me to do this? Also, any tutorial videos or instructions on how to achieve this?Thank you.
I suspect you mean quarter tone tuning and/or notes separate half a semitone, rather than "quarter note" as KW interpreted.
If so, you need the Standard or higher version and use the "scala" settings for temperament. You can get an almost-fully-functional version with the demo, so try that first to make sure it meets your needs
HTH
now it was me lacking knowledge. never heard of quarter tone tuning. But google did help. Now that I know what quarter tone tuning is, I wonder how to play those tunings. The 88 keys available can cover only half of the range of the frequency spectrum as usual, and the black and white key spacing becomes somewhat meaningless. Looking even deeper into the subject, I found that Instruments are available that sport such an amount of keys in a 3 layer arrangement. I have a hard time handling the 88 keys and cannot imagine I could cope with such a monster.
Hi,
I bought a MIDI keyboard that has an SD card slot. I have no musical background. I want to be able to play quarter tones on the keyboard. Which version of the software would allow me to do this? Also, any tutorial videos or instructions on how to achieve this?Thank you.
I can't change your keyboard , but in the "Tuning" section of the main window, you can click the "+" symbol next to the Hz number, to show the tuning dialog.
Click the menu on the left "Temperament" & choose "Make Equal temperament..."
A value of 24 Degrees might get you close to quarter tones.
I don't know if this is a Pro feature or available on the lower versions. The website might give this info.