Jacob Collier Audience Choir Virtual Keyboard Mapping

scaler123

Hi,

I'm trying to follow along with an email I got from Native Access a few weeks ago. The article is titled "Building a beat with Audience Choir", and right out of the gate I can't follow along with it. The issue is that the author is using C0 and C#0 for percussion sounds. However, when mine opens up, the usable notes are from G0 to C7. I've attached a screen shot.

I'm not a musician, just like playing around with my computer and the free version of Ableton Live I got with my Arturia MINILAB mkII. I'd like to follow this step-by-step, so if there is a way to shift my key mapping I'd like to know. If not, I'll figure something else out.

Thanks,

Bruce

Uwe303

Hello,

you can shift the keys of your mini lab simply by pressing oktave up or down, manual 2.1.2 point 3.

scaler123

Hi Uwe,

Thanks for the suggestion. Changing the octave of the mini lab doesn't seem to change what is shown in the user interface for the virtual keyboard.

I've accepted that I'll have to modify what I do a bit from what is shown in the tutorial. I noticed after posting my question that even the colors are in a different order than what shows up when I run the plugin. I've included a screen shot of what shows up in the tutorial written by Tim Cant. It's from the Native Instruments blog. The date of the blog entry is February 29th, 2024. In fact, maybe I'll drop him a line and see what he thinks.

Thanks!

Uwe303

Why you want to shift the color? You really just have to shift the keyboard like I said, maybe a few times cause it's a small keyboard with not that many keys. Maybe I don't understand correctly what you want to achieve here, I guessed you just want to play that instrument. You should also see pressed virtual keys (the ones on your picture) if you press your midi keyboard, then shift the oktave up and press the same key, to see what's changing, them maybe press oktave up again - then you should see what I mean. And forget the picture of the manual in terms of the order of the colors, it's wrong, but that really doesn't matter. If I'm not totally mistaken you have to shift up the oktave 3 times to play the upper two coloured areas. If you press oktave up and down together you are right back on the middle c.

scaler123

Yeah, you may be right about the size of the keyboard causing it to display differently than when Tim wrote his blog post. At any rate, I see now that I'll have to get over not being able to follow the instructions step-by-step, because for me they just don't work. I'll do what I need to in order to get the sounds that he's using. For what it's worth, here's the section of the blog post I'm talking about. In my UI, it's not possible to hit C0 or C#0, on the Audience Choir virtual keyboard, since they're outside the range of active keys. No problem though, I'll just program it from the piano roll in Ableton Live.

Thanks!

Uwe303

Yeah you have to use it that way but don't give up to play it from the keyboard, you can do it with yours easily and it's great fun. Like I said press the middle c on your keyboard for example look what key on the screen is pressed, then press oktave up, again press a key and so on, same with oktave down, that way you get familiar with what I mean, it's an important thing with those kind of keyboards, I also have to do it that way even on my 49 key keyboard with that library. And also important for almost any other instrument. And in your case you will need to play C5 and C#5.