Only allow notes on the midi keyboard that fit to the chord

+1

Perhaps 2 options: "fit to the chord" or "fit to the scale"

+1 !!

+1 and a similar idea by defining instruments: the possibility that allows the user freely to define instruments that can just play selcted pitches or a certain range, so pitches will be forced into it. (as examples: an orff pecussion xylo that just plays C E G A, a Bb-diatonic instrument or a F-pentatonic one etc.  okay, I'm on synfire, dunno any about HN …)

;-) michael

You are probably referring to live MIDI Through play only.

As for recording and compiled music, the renderer already does this in a much more sophisticated way. Snapping pitches to the chord is brute force and rarely sounds good ("arpeggio effect"). Snapping pitches to the scale is a little better, but very ineffective without voice leading that considers the individual progression. If harmonic quantization was really this easy, I could have written Synfire and HN in a few months.

I know this feature is being asked for every now and then. Have you actually tried it? Are you happy with it?

@Minkepatt: Your suggestion is a different story. Instruments with a limited pitch selection are very useful.

Interesting, but is it possible to play live a melody in HN2?

Is it now the case that you must import a melody in HN2..
Say you have a intro of 8 bars and with a chordprogression in a particular scale and want to play along the accompaniment..

At the moment i don't know how to see in the pallette the chords who belonging to a choosen scale(key)?
Also handy is for the circle of fifth diagram .. # and b  notation for the scales..so i don't have to memorize this all the time. 
There is also a software keyboard connected with the palette and you can see the chord or scale when you play a chord on the palette.

It should be handy to see the chord type and scale type on the keyboard with symbols  and visual..so when a chord is played
it shows visual also the underlying scale

There is no live melody play along feature in HN2..but playing along with the basis accompaniment could be a idea

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There is also the issue that i cannot see what particular figure (name in the premanufactured examples) is used in a accompaniment..so it is difficult to do some variations
Another thing is the progression of a whole song?.. it is now a chordprogession for a songsection.is it not possible to add the chordprogression under the songsection in HN2 and perhaps also labelling the chord coloring?..or try to get a idea of the harmonical functional movement like that.
Only a letter symbol for a chordal function is not so clear, perhaps more visual .. at least the tonica, subdominant and dominant
As a colored bar under the songsection ( perhaps also a idea for SFP if it not exist there..why not )

I am curious to see when i can use the demo version of SFP and a video

A weak versus strong chordprogression to name something?..the idea is to get more chord progression variations control in the songsections