Pointsman

On each incoming MIDI note-on, Pointsman snaps the pitch to the nearest pitch in the active scale, optionally perturbs the output’s velocity, gate, and timing through the humanize layer, and emits the quantized note. Fifteen scale presets ship at launch: the seven diatonic modes (major, minor, dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian, locrian), pentatonic, minor-pentatonic, blues, harmonic, melodic, whole, chromatic, and chromatic-half.

Three quantize modes are available. In scale mode every note snaps to the nearest scale degree; in chord mode notes snap to the current chord tone and fall back to the scale when no chord tone fits; in harmony mode the input is passed through and joined by up to three diatonic voices stacked above it. In chord and harmony modes the chord context comes from real-time MIDI on a control channel — held notes form the current chord — so any chord source (a clip, your playing, Oedipa) can drive the quantizer. The humanize layer applies per-event random offsets to velocity, gate, timing, and drift; given the same seed, input, and parameters, the output is reproducible bit-for-bit. Pointsman sits naturally downstream of Stencil for the canonical Turing Machine + Quantizer chain, but works on anything emitting unquantized MIDI — played input, arpeggiators, Tonnetz walks, chord clips.