Runs on the Erae Touch II Keyboards?

Is it possible to set up the Erae Touch II keyboard layouts so you can runs by sliding your finger across the notes (like you can on a regular keybed or piano) and have the pitches change instantly and not bend to the next pitch as in a glissando?

So when you cross the border of the notes, successive notes get triggered?

I’m not sure it can be done without external scripting, but “use pitch bend to monitor the threshold between semitones, and re-attack upon crossing” is very doable.

(It’s a bit reductive, but I find “multiply my initial velocity by .6 and use that for the re-attacked notes” to be a very playable formula.)

Edit:

What I just described is great for a Continuum style layout, but you probably want the top half to be chromatic, and the bottom half to ignore all the black keys.

That would be harder to pull off. Maybe not impossible, but definitely a challenge.

Edit again:

I guess it would be a relatively straightforward use of the API element. Still, that’s probably overkill.

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I appreciate the ideas! I’ll see what I can do in the EraeLab first.

I don’t have any knowledge yet about the API part of it and I’m not a programmer. Would be great if there is a repository for users to share their custom layouts!

does it not do this if you turn quantisation on (turn off glissando)

pretty sure I’ve had this at times when I didnt want it :laughing:

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Ha! Yeh, thanks. I tried turning off glissando first and that didn’t work.

From the new firmware change log, seems like it might be what you’re after:

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Wow! Great news!! Thanks.

What would be great, at least for me, is if this re-trigger (like for the glissando) could also be applied to faders. So if I had a bank of faders, I could “draw” over them and paint values as I go. As is, now I have to lift my finger and re-press the fader position. I do this all the time with banks of faders for multiple parameters.

Yeah, it’s sort of bizarre that they don’t have a “radio buttons” mode for any of their components yet.