AudioTheory Piano Keys
macOS / Musique
AudioTheory Piano Keys is ultimate piano reference toolkit. View every note you play across a customisable set of interactive diagrams designed to enrich your understanding of music theory.
AudioTheory Piano Keys features...
–An innovative highlighting system to quickly understand how the notes you're playing fit into chords and scales.
–Full MIDI input support. Connect your external MIDI input device to control the on-screen keyboard. Input is supported by real-time audio and visual highlighting with a selection of software instrument presets.
–Exclude notes and never play out of key again. Quickly load a scale from a full library of scale sets.
–Choose the chords for your composition from an extensive library. Or automatically display the chords relevant to the selected scale preset.
–Introducing the scale wheel. A brand-new invention for AudioTheory Piano Keys. The scale preset highlights on a circular diagram, giving a clear visual way to understand how a scale is structured relative to its root note.
–Ear Training exercises to help you understand and identify music by ear.
Plus a new invention that will change the way you visually understand music theory...
Real-time scale highlighting
This is a second row of keyboard notes that sits just above the main display and shows a scale for the note currently being played. This means you can see both the main song scale (loaded to the keyboard) and then the notes also filtered against the scale for the current root note. The perfect tool for improvising, this allows you to quickly identify suitable notes as you are playing.
Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?
A brand new update arrives for AudioTheory Piano Keys. It includes the following:
Added
–Harmonic and melodic minor scales have been added to the scale library
–Chromatic scale wheel – new options for the scale wheel when a scale preset is not loaded
–New relative labelling options. Relative labels for dual scale highlighting and the scale wheel can match the main note language, or always display as either Roman numerals or degrees
Changed
Revised default chords
Chords are now added to the main view already in 'edit' mode
–Solfege standardisation – all notes now use Do Re Mi for fixed do
–Standardisation of default sharp/ flat display across all scale types
–B now displays as C flat when appropriate in scales (e.g. G flat major)
–Adjusted position of keyboard input overlay on black keys
–The top section of the app is now offset on 16:10 screens to better fit the screen space
–Slight offset for piano keys when they are viewed without the scale wheel so that they better fit the screen space
Fixed
–Relative Roman numerals review to ensure consistent sharp/ flat information across all scales
–Hotkeys for swapping note language (buttons 1 – 4) now also works when viewing scale and chord sheets
–User guide button now correctly links to the Piano Keys specific page
–Fixed an issue where the dropdowns under chords would not display if the scale is changed whilst the padlock is unlocked
–Fixed an issue where note labels would not display correctly in the chord-match ear training mode when using fixed do
–Fixed an issue where pentatonic and blues dual-scale name labels would display incorrectly
–Fixed an issue where the answer octave could display incorrectly in note match when multiple octaves where in use
–Fixed an issue where the relative notes on the scale wheel would not display correctly if removing a scale preset
–Fixed an issue where under some circumstances piano chords would not correctly save and load between sessions
