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Hi! I just bought a Pico in a walk-in store... I hope I'm not the only one who does that sort of thing ;-)

Anyway, I found several older threads about the scroll keys. None of them really answered the simple question if they can be configured to work like the other 16 keys now (some of the original questions about this were from 2009 and got vague "in the future..."-like answers, but nothing definitive). I'm not interested right now in complex models that allow me to play microtonally over 500 octaves, but these keys do feel like a dead weight if you don't need to control everything from the instrument. Just playing the next note in the scale would be perfect.

If you look in the wiki section of the website there are sections for eigend and belcanto, or watch the seminar videos in the seminar section. They do explain how to remap keys but its pretty heavy going.

Ok, thanks, that actually pointed me in the right direction. I now have them playing notes. Now all I need to know is how to turn them off as scroll keys. I haven't found this documented anywhere. The videos almost exclusively use the Alpha and the Tau and on those, there's of course no need to do anything similar.

Of course, I can just close the browser, then it's not an issue.

@ scm698
I take my hate off, on this one!! ( not that I don't find useful the scroll keys)

Very nice reading the Belcanto words; about "tapper".

off to "k choose" on those new keys...

keyman

@scm698 thanks, that's perfect!

@keyman I re-configured kgroup 1 in the same order as before (found by experimentation) but adding the two last keys, and kmapper 2 just like the scripts that come with the software but adding two keys.

Here's a complete script that seems to work for me, sorry for the bad form with all the individual hey lines, I just copy-pasted what I tried out in commander.

description

    Use all 18 keys.



script

    kgroup 1 hey clear

    kgroup 1 hey k 1 add

    kgroup 1 hey k 2 add

    kgroup 1 hey k 3 add

    kgroup 1 hey k 4 add

    kgroup 1 hey k 10 add

    kgroup 1 hey k 11 add

    kgroup 1 hey k 12 add

    kgroup 1 hey k 13 add

    kgroup 1 hey k 5 add

    kgroup 1 hey k 6 add

    kgroup 1 hey k 7 add

    kgroup 1 hey k 8 add

    kgroup 1 hey k 14 add

    kgroup 1 hey k 15 add

    kgroup 1 hey k 16 add

    kgroup 1 hey k 17 add

    kgroup 1 hey k 9 add

    kgroup 1 hey k 18 add



    kmapper 2 hey clear

    kmapper 2 hey k 1 add

    kmapper 2 hey k 2 add

    kmapper 2 hey k 3 add

    kmapper 2 hey k 4 add

    kmapper 2 hey k 5 add

    kmapper 2 hey k 6 add

    kmapper 2 hey k 7 add

    kmapper 2 hey k 8 add

    kmapper 2 hey k 9 add

    kmapper 2 hey k 10 add

    kmapper 2 hey k 11 add

    kmapper 2 hey k 12 add

    kmapper 2 hey k 13 add

    kmapper 2 hey k 14 add

    kmapper 2 hey k 15 add

    kmapper 2 hey k 16 add

    kmapper 2 hey k 17 add

    kmapper 2 hey k 18 add



    all join

    eigenbrowser vertical nudger 1 un connect

    eigenbrowser tapper 1 un connect

    eigenbrowser vertical nudger 2 un connect

This configures a layout like the standard layout with groups of four keys, plus the two last ones. The other layout scripts that come with the software don't work because they don't include the two last keys, but it's straight forward to fix them, just add keys 17 and 18 to them.

can this be be stickied

I think the script above from @dannyf does preserve the mapping of mode keys by adding keys to the kgroup in the original 4x4 grouping then k 9 and k 18 at the end.

Here is (I believe) an equivalent script shortened (by the use of key ranges) from one I received from @keyman. Although it gives you 18 playing keys, the scale position of notes played by the last two keys is peculiar. If you add keys to the kgroup sequentially (k 1 to k 18 add) playability is improved but mode keys get repositioned.

description
All playing keys - from Antonio
script
empty join
kgroup 1 listen
clear
k 1 to k 4 add
k 10 to k 13 add
k 5 to k 8 add
k 14 to k 17 add
k 9 add
k 18 add

empty join
kmapper 2 listen
clear
k 1 to k 18 add

all join
eigenbrowser vertical nudger 1 un connect
eigenbrowser tapper 1 un connect
eigenbrowser vertical nudger 2 un connect

Eigenbrowser agent will show itself if... you run the Eigenbrowser! along with Workbench...
(similar if you unplug any of the instruments Alpha, Tau or Pico that agend will appear/disappear)

So, run Eigenbrowser and Eigencommander to un connect those "wires" with Workbench ( you can do it Belcanto also)

keyman