I’ve created a simple webtool where you can select a scale and a root key and then see what keys on your piano/keyboard belong to that scale:
Visual Scales
I built it because I believe it will help me actually learn to play piano keyboard, I’m visually oriented like that. Hope it can help others. It’s on a very simple server now which is not really meant as webserver so, if anybody has ideas for proper (and free or cheap) hosting space that does not require me to run a fulltime always-on pc in my bedroom, I’d like to hearread.
Very nice. 
Some feedback:
- It would be nice to be able to unselect options.
- The ‘renoise’ option doesn’t seem to change anything, at least for me!
- Some explaining text would be nice! Maybe I’m missing the answers to the two previous bullet points, you know? It would be nice to have some text explaining this if I was… as well as some text explaining what the ‘continue’ option does, cus I can’t work it out
Other than that it’s a good little tool, I’ll definitely be bookmarking it
Thanks!
I’m not sure what you mean with the first bullet point?
Anyway the ‘renoise pc keyboard option’ now works too, but the ‘continuous’ option, that I’ve made invisible while it’s not doing anything, will now be my first concern so that one can actually easily see which keys on the keyboard do belong to a certain scale.
So this thing just shows visually some note scales/asteikko/échelle/جدول/scala/Maßstab/scála/skalo so that one (myself first, I’ve made this for myself as I’m learning music theory etc myself right now) could learn what they ‘look like’. I mean, jargon like whole tones and semitones won’t do it for me if I can’t “see” nothing so that’s why I made this, I’m glad someone else can make use of it. So basically, you know, when you’re starting out with music/renoise, and you hit synths with some keys, once every so many keys when you’re just jamming and not knowing what you’re doing you’ll strike a key that sounds false or awful with the sequence you’ve been rockin just before. When you keep to the scales you keep to a “style” and that’s how I at least hope to jam the pc keyboard with success 
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I also am aware of the fact not all of the scales are evenly useful, I must admit I took this data from somewhere which is not a book about musical scales.
@Suva: yes, I know about your tool and I must say it is awesome. Thanks for posting it here so everyone looking at this topic will know too that you made an almost end-all web tool for it (I am not trying to make fun). Also respect for not respecting IE 
. As I yet have no idea what chords work and why/when they belong to a scale, this is about as far as my ‘knowledge’ reaches I just wanted to put it out there. Anyways just again thanks Suva for the cool tool!! (I think you also made the xrns tool ScaleFinder so double thanks)
No worries, now that you’ve updated it the functionality is exactly what I was looking for:) good job.
One glitch that I found… if you select a scale to be showed as piano keys, then switch to keyboard keys, once you switch back to piano keys, all keys are highlighted red. But maybe you already know about this!
Gonna keep up to date with what you do with this, I too am considering furthering my music theory so this’ll be a huge help to me.
Cool stuff. Bookmarked.