That's actually available on some of the older PSRe entry level keyboards; I think the assumption is that if you're buying something that's not juniorized, you don't need it.
I can't even remember what the feature was called, but yes, it let you mash keys and it would only play notes that were in the same key as your chord. It was absolutey maddening to try to use if you already knew how to play, since music theory dictates that notes outside of the 1st 4 notes (root tried plus 7th) aren't consistent within a scale (I and IV get M7, ii, iii, V, and vi get dominant 7s), and then *every* chord within a scale can do the add9 *except* the iii... you start to see the problem?
Much easier to lock the chords to C Major scale, and then *only* play on the white keys... you can't go wrong if you do that; psr e283, and e373 (and probably 383) have smart chord, I believe? where you could play a single note on the left hand, and instead of always assuming the Major chord, it will assume M/m based on the scale of what you play.
which means if you get a keyboard with smart chord, and play only the white keys, you'll always be 'in key'.
Mind you, almost the same thing could be achieved on an sx900 by just sticking to the white keys, and setting acmp to either AI FIngered or AI Full Keyboard, without the aggravation of trying to figure out how to turn off the 'locked to scale' melody mode. That feature was not popular.
Mark
I can't even remember what the feature was called, but yes, it let you mash keys and it would only play notes that were in the same key as your chord. It was absolutey maddening to try to use if you already knew how to play, since music theory dictates that notes outside of the 1st 4 notes (root tried plus 7th) aren't consistent within a scale (I and IV get M7, ii, iii, V, and vi get dominant 7s), and then *every* chord within a scale can do the add9 *except* the iii... you start to see the problem?
Much easier to lock the chords to C Major scale, and then *only* play on the white keys... you can't go wrong if you do that; psr e283, and e373 (and probably 383) have smart chord, I believe? where you could play a single note on the left hand, and instead of always assuming the Major chord, it will assume M/m based on the scale of what you play.
which means if you get a keyboard with smart chord, and play only the white keys, you'll always be 'in key'.
Mind you, almost the same thing could be achieved on an sx900 by just sticking to the white keys, and setting acmp to either AI FIngered or AI Full Keyboard, without the aggravation of trying to figure out how to turn off the 'locked to scale' melody mode. That feature was not popular.
Mark
Statistics: Posted by amwilburn — Thu Jan 23, 2025 9:49 pm