If I use a keyboard instead, notably my GSi - VB3-II Hammond, I have many notes that are not played in tune, up the point I always prefer using Ableton scales
Yes and not: the notes “not played in tune” come from the organ solo, but it’s the Scaler feature that drives them
If I use an identical Ableton scale instead, I can play much more notes than using Scaler, but I must play better because the changes of chords aren’t automatic: the Ableton scale force me just in the root note (I don’t know if “root note” is correct, anyway )
As a possible long shot, and re my earlier note about voicings with extended chords from Guthrie Govan’s book, it may well be that dissonance is more apparent with an organ (longer release, more harmonics) than a piano / guitar (shorter release and less harmonics). Just a thought.
I am actually intrigued by the idea of having a MIDI keyboard waterfall/organ style like that. That answers the question if I should get 61 or 49 keys due to space constraints. Would be cool to map the different keyboards to different instruments…
the D-Beam of the Roland is innovative and enticing to me, together with the Pitch Bend/Modulation Lever actionable with one hand only, notably to play the guitar plugins
about the Pitch Bend/Modulation Lever I see is different from what I thought!
I believed there were 2 wheels very close to each others, so actionable with one hand only
I see it’s a vertical lever instead, so I don’t understand how the player can activate both Pitch Bend and Modulation separately
Explaining it better: both can be used together but at the same levels, not 2 independent levels as a “2 close wheels” can allow for
This was the standard mod/pitch lever for various Roland synths, and it works in X-Y directions (see annotation in the picture); think of it as positioning the value at any point in the area of a circle. You can thus set both simultaneously.
Roland made good use of this with their guitar patches (particularly the JD800 ‘Wailing guitar’ patch, which used the pitch direction to simulate the trem, and the mod direction to change the patch sound and squeal.) This was certainly easier trying to move two wheels with one hand.