Lumatone is built to interface with any sound-generating device that receives MIDI input. Because of that, Lumatone mappings are meant to remain “pitch agnostic.” While you probably have specific pitches in mind when designing a mapping, a Lumatone mapping purposefully only assigns MIDI note numbers (0-127) to keys.

Mappings in traditional 12-ET tuning will work automatically, but microtonal mappings will then need to be interpreted properly by your sound generating device in order to play the right pitch. An understanding of how your sound-generating device interprets both default and customized MIDI notation is vital to the process of using microtonal mappings.

Since every sound-generating device is different, we encourage you to learn using the many resources available online. Over time, however, we will be posting articles on our website ongoing highlighting different tips and techniques for integrating Lumatone with various virtual instruments, DAWs, and external sound modules.