Andy DA Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 I'd like to include name of notes on all keys of piano roll. Who knows how can I do it? If I using Theme Editor? so what can I do there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Nelson Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 You might find this useful in the meantime: https://youtu.be/qqHbIraLhyk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 You may replace the keyboard shown in the label pane next to the note pane in the PRV with any text. This is done by creating the data in the note names section of the master instrument definitions file. Once the instrument definition is added; the note names may be displayed by right-clicking the keyboard in the label pane and selected the alternate note names from the note names dialog. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 (edited) I don't think there's a way to display notes directly on the piano keys. Theme Editor can't do it. However, they will display as you hover the mouse near them, independently of each other. A feature request? Edited February 21, 2023 by sjoens 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Dickens Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 Just learn where the notes are instead of relying on crutches. Its really not that difficult. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 48 minutes ago, Byron Dickens said: Just learn where the notes are instead of relying on crutches. Its really not that difficult. It's the same 12 note names repeated in each octave. So agree that it's not too hard to learn the 12 note names on a keyboard or piano roll for one octave. Much more logical than a guitar fretboard! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 (edited) Two things , set the view to show note names and they will appear in the note blobs if you set the horizontal height just so. Then right click on the side view keyboard to open this dialogue which will show note names as the mouse hovers. Edited February 22, 2023 by John Vere 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Andy DA Posted February 27, 2023 Author Share Posted February 27, 2023 On 2/23/2023 at 2:35 AM, John Vere said: Two things , set the view to show note names and they will appear in the note blobs if you set the horizontal height just so. Then right click on the side view keyboard to open this dialogue which will show note names as the mouse hovers. Thank you so much for your useful advice, I do it, too! However, sometimes I need to see name of notes on scale of piano roll keyboard in whole! Because of I edit some of midi of notes and click to select on some of note with my mouse I need to see exact place anyway where I'll be drag and drop at to editing! I think this add feature will be very comfortable in interface of Cakewalk for some users. Also I would be to offer to enabled the good feature as to colorful name of notes if user would like to see that? Of course these options should not be enabled by default. For example, there is variant of pianoroll in some DAW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 On 2/22/2023 at 10:35 AM, John Vere said: set the view to show note names and they will appear in the note blobs As you can see in your screen shots, black text on dark notes isn't vey helpful. I've requested them to be lighter or contrasting... or Theme changeable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 8 hours ago, Andy DA said: Thank you so much for your useful advice, I do it, too! However, sometimes I need to see name of notes on scale of piano roll keyboard in whole! Because of I edit some of midi of notes and click to select on some of note with my mouse I need to see exact place anyway where I'll be drag and drop at to editing! I think this add feature will be very comfortable in interface of Cakewalk for some users. Also I would be to offer to enabled the good feature as to colorful name of notes if user would like to see that? Of course these options should not be enabled by default. For example, there is variant of pianoroll in some DAW! If I'm not mistaken, that appears to be a shot of the piano roll from FL Studio. I tried a demo of that DAW a few years ago, and I must say it has one of the best PRV's I've seen anywhere. Good example! But sadly, that was the only appealing thing about FL for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 Still, nobody handles outboard MIDI gear like Cakewalk, no matter how pretty their PRV looks. Even so, it could use some subtle improvements. If only we could take the features of all DAW PRVs and combine them into one super PRV... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JnTuneTech Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 I find that Cakewalk has a fine system of renaming notes on the PRV, and in fact MIDI patch & bank naming as well, in the instrument definitions (.ins) format implementation. -Unfortunately, I don't see any tools designed to help with creating or modifying them easily. That would really help IMHO. I do also long for easier customization of the color or entire theme of the notes in PRV. That is almost necessary if you want to use some of the custom note names properly. Although the plain names on white in the piano roll left hand side works OK, but I hardly ever see the note names on note display like some of the screen shots referred to here, so maybe it's not that common anywhere, yet. Of course, it must be pointed out that there will always be as many style & design wants as there are users, it is the nature of us all to see things uniquely. -And sometimes, especially regarding MIDI implementation & compatibility concerns, there are multiple methods needed to work with MIDI for each person, when we have different apps. I still struggle with how many MIDI controllable apps are all different with standards, some want just note numbers, others decide key range starts from middle C, others don't, it's always a challenge, -PRV adjustments all the time! -I wonder if any of the MIDI 2.0 standard will help with any of that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 (edited) Suggestion: Somebody should compile the feature requests here and make a post over in the "Feedback Loop" forum where it will more likely be seen by the developers. This here is a Q&A forum about instruments and effects, and not likely to make it to the their attention... https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/forum/8-feedback-loop/ "Provide feedback on features, ideas and requests for future releases of Cakewalk by BandLab" Here's the current list of PRV related feature requests over there... https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/search/&q=prv&type=forums_topic&nodes=8&updated_after=any&sortby=newest Edited February 27, 2023 by abacab 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy DA Posted February 28, 2023 Author Share Posted February 28, 2023 I already informed in support about these theme and I have been promised that it will send to developers, however, I think you are right and it would be good to put this theme for forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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