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Keyboard and MIDI map

Everything bound, in one place. ? in the app shows the same map without leaving it.

Notes

An Ableton-style layout across the bottom two rows:

black:    w  e     t  y  u     o  p
white:  a  s  d  f  g  h  j  k  l  ;  '
a w s e d f t g y h u j k o l p ; 'Play notes
z / xOctave down / up

Note

Note letters only reach the synth when focus is not in a control, so typing in a name field does not play a melody. This is also why the bank's save key is m rather than s.

Global

spaceAudition the current patch
[ / ]Step through the bank
15Rate the patch you are on
mSave the patch you are on
pIn presets, play the row
⌘Z / ⇧⌘ZUndo / redo a workbench edit
?Key map and gestures
EscClose a dialog, or put down an armed module

In EVOLVE

1 / 2Audition A / B
/ Vote A / B
⌘ZTake back a vote

The rack canvas

HomeFit the whole patch
.Fit what you are on
⌘0Actual size
⌘− / ⌘=Zoom out / in
ctrl + wheel, or pinchZoom at the pointer
wheel, or drag on bare canvasPan
space + drag, or middle-dragPan from anywhere
shift-click the minimapBookmark this spot
shift + 19Jump to a bookmark

Inside the rack

Tab reaches the rack as a single stop, then:

Move between controls
/ Turn the focused knob
shift + / Fine
LLock the focused control

The bank

Tab reaches the bank as a single stop, then:

Move the cursor
EnterOpen the patch
15Rate
mSave

The node bank

/Focus the search index
TabReach the catalogue: one stop per group
Walk the entries
EnterArm the module. It is now in your hand
Then walk the lit sockets, each announced
EnterPlace it
EscPut it down

The search matches by sound as well as by name: grit, vowel, sidechain, wander.

Gestures

Drag a knobChange it; you hear it immediately
Click an enum plateCycle it (saw, square, −2 oct)
Drag from an out jackPull a cable; every legal input lights up
Drag a wired in jack off its socketUnplug. The chain goes to HELD
Drag from HELD onto a lit ○Put it back
Click on a plateBypass, delete, replace with…, insert after…
Click on a plateLock the module so evolution cannot touch it
Click a knob's lock dotLock just that knob
Drag a plate by its faceplateMove it (freeform mode); shift to ignore the grid

MIDI

Plug in a keyboard and it works, with no configuration:

Note on/offWith velocity
Pitch bendYes
Sustain pedal (CC 64)Yes

Web MIDI is Chromium-only today. In Firefox and Safari the computer keyboard and the on-screen keys are unaffected.

Performance controls

Not keyboard-bound, but this is where people look for them:

HOLDLatch notes
Panic. Kills every voice
ARPPattern, division, BPM, octave range, gate, swing
UNIStack all four voices, detuned
gldGlide between single notes; chords stay clean
● RECBounce your playing to a WAV
⇕ tallFull-height keybed
keysKeybed width, 1–4 octaves