GridInstrument 4+

Ich nutze die App um einen Elektron Synthesizer „dawless“ anzusteuern. Sie ersetzt meinen Push2 auf dem Sofa. Perfekt wäre es für mich, wenn ich eine kleine Keyboard Skizze oben in der Mitte hätte, welche den Pad Klick als Klaviatur anzeigt, das würde beim anschließenden Keyboard spielen sehr helfen.

I like the app on the iPad but on the iPhone I am missing a horizontal screen (=feature request ^^).

This is a great tool that serve so many of my needs at the same time! On an iPad 12.9 inch in landscape mode you get a grid of pads 13 wide and 8 high. You can also go portrait mode 10 wide, 12 high. From left to right you can choose to have the diatonic notes of a scale, key-center highlighted, or you can go chromatic and have the key-center and diatonic notes highlighted while the notes out-of-scale are grayed out but still playable. And with 13 pads wide, you get all 12 tones + the key-center on top in one row - try to buy a physical launchpad that big! Independent from that you can select the interval step in which the notes from bottom to top are stacked. And you can play 10 notes at the same time!

You can use this as a input method for your DAW, or for teaching/exploring/learning! Set up octaves from bottom to top and check out the overtone-series. Stack thirds or forths to construct chords easily - more time hearing/exploring/experience harmonic ideas in the first place! How should you learn and recognize the modes on your instrument if you have no idea of their sounds beforehand? Highlight the notes of a mode on a chromatic layout and create melodies right away. Damn piano keyboard only allows to experience C Major easily (exaggerated). In this app you can experience all scales as easy as C Major on a piano.

Some feature request for educational purposes:

interval-stack bottom to top starts with minor 2nd. Please add option unison (+0).
options to go without highlights at all. So key = „none“ and scale = „none“.