Better tools to deal with Key complexities

wayfinder

Currently, the Key field only allows "legal" values, which includes the twelve notes of the Western scale in minor and major, and nothing else.

How do you tag an atonal track, for example? How do you tag something in a tone system that does not follow Western twelve tone tradition? How do you tag something that has an identifiable root note but is in neither minor nor major mode, or would work with either? How do you tag something that's in an identifiable key, but some cents off? How do you tag something that changes key midway?

However you tackle these cases, currently there will be drawbacks: you have to pick something that's either wrong or incomplete. Or you have to use the Comment or Key Text fields to specify further, which are not integrated with the Key system (colors, adjacency, deck controls).

I don't have a super good answer to what could be improved exactly. Maybe key could have multiple entries. Maybe it could include a cents offset. Maybe key could be specified per Grid marker?

What do you think?