Transposing MIDI input

[BriamJH]

Being a guitarist, my piano skills are limited. Therefore, when playing piano I play in C and transpose on input. However, I seem unable to do this correctly. I am trying to play as if in D (as I play in C on the actual piano with Local turned OFF). The screenshot shows how I set this up. I must be doing something simple and incorrect as this should be a real easy thing to do. Any help would be appreciated. Many thanks, Brian

 

[Papanate]

What DAW are you you using?

 

[BriamJH]

What DAW are you you using?

Reaper 6.83. I think I know what I have been doing wrong (I have not tested this yet, but...) I was playing my piano in the key of C. However, I was using some chords which are not in the key of C i.e. Bb, D7 and Fm. When I requested to move to the key of D, the program could not properly transpose the out-of-key chords. I believe that if I simply asked it to move 2 semitones up (and not to the key of D), it will probably work. I will try this tomorrow morning and update this message. Thanks for your interest. Brian

 

[rob aylestone]

I'm guessing the chords transpose wrongly? I don't use reaper, but All chords will be out of key? I note the snap to scale. You want this off. if you turn that on it means that if you play a E major chord on the keyboard, with the up two semi-tone setting, that E will be F sharp. F sharp is in the key of D, so will correctly play, but the next note up would be G sharp, which isn't in D and it would grab the note and fix it - wrongly. Try it with the chord feature switched off. Then whatever you play will just sound 2 steps up.

 

[BriamJH]

I'm guessing the chords transpose wrongly? I don't use reaper, but All chords will be out of key? I note the snap to scale. You want this off. if you turn that on it means that if you play a E major chord on the keyboard, with the up two semi-tone setting, that E will be F sharp. F sharp is in the key of D, so will correctly play, but the next note up would be G sharp, which isn't in D and it would grab the note and fix it - wrongly. Try it with the chord feature switched off. Then whatever you play will just sound 2 steps up.

You are correct. Snapping to the key was the error. I will remember this in future ! Many thanks, Brian