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Neat project! You might find TheoryBoard interesting[1]. It's a midi controller that tries to embed knowledge of scales.

[1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/irijule/theoryboard-thy...

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that's a cool interface - "impossible to play a wrong note" kinda leaves out the ability for intentional accidentals, but... not bad for a lot of things. Bonus points if they get the glowing holograms floating in the air working :)

Yeah, true that wrong notes are sometimes the right thing to do!

and I would totally back that kickstarter if they had floating holograms

They actually have some cool features to allow multiple scales and scale changes, so intentional accidentals are promoted. This looks a lot like the Ableton Push controllers besides the direct Ableton integrations. I think the unintentional accidents are what would be missed, and those can be just as good.

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