Like you can select a scale with the piano module, it would be nice to have the ability to adjust the pitches of 7 notes per octave ourselves.
something like this:
It can be done. This is a grid I threw together - not done for appearance as I was in a hurry - but it got me there.
(I reversed flat and sharp because I don’t play harp and it’s more intuitive to me.)
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That looks great @dragsquares , would you mind sharing the grid at all? I can’t work out how you’ve been controlling the note inputs based off of the key selectors. Using the XY pad is probably actually a better way of inputing glissandi too compared to the normal keyboard.
What harp library do you use?
The XY pad should be better, but requires a transformation that’s slightly complex - one has to convert a CC to note numbers and then map a CC to dynamics that replaces velocity input; and the Spitfire harp allows CC mapped to dynamics (velocity in this case). Depending on your DAW you may need some external transformation software, like the excellent though unjustly obscure TransMIDIfier, which I believe does just this thing. But at this point I’m used to doing it on my keyboard. I’d heard that a harp gliss object was in the works, and I think that would be ideal - maybe a grid object with a row of lines and the lines mapped according to a selected key and pedal config.
The harp gliss object is in the works and will be available in MGP 1.7.