Pointsman ポインツマン

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.

Two quantize modes are available. In scale mode every note snaps to the nearest scale degree, one in and one out. In chord mode each input note is scale-snapped and then expanded into a diatonic chord — out of the box, a 1-3-5 triad rooted on the input pitch (C in C major comes out as C / E / G, D as D / F / A), so a monophonic melody arrives as automatic chord voicings in the active key. Voices are configurable up to three, each a diatonic 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th above or below the input. The humanize layer applies per-event signed-noise offsets to velocity, gate, and timing via a single feel slider; drift smooths the draws over time when you want breath rather than jitter, and 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.