# Green keys no ways & the Hammond

**URL:** <https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/green-keys-no-ways-the-hammond/7120>\
**Category:** Scaler 2 Tutorials\
**Tags:** AbletonLive\
**Created:** [May 12, 2021, 9:05am UTC](https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/green-keys-no-ways-the-hammond/7120 "2021-05-12T09:05:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![ClaudioPorcellana](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/forum.scalermusic.com/claudioporcellana/32/14242_2.png) [@ClaudioPorcellana](https://forum.scalermusic.com/u/ClaudioPorcellana)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 9:05am UTC](https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/green-keys-no-ways-the-hammond/7120/1 "2021-05-12T09:05:30Z")

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After many, many attempts to have green keys (those for in-tune solos) working, notably with a Hammond, and after many, many crashes I gave up

I am almost persuaded the culprit is Scaler, because I have crashes with modelled VSTs that doesn’t waste CPU/RAM, and I don’t have crashes even with sampled VSTs and no Scaler involved, so I hope the issue will be fixed in the future, but currently isn’t

In any case, in Italy we say: “Non tutto il male viene per nuocere”  
(back translation: not all the bad comes to be harmful 🤣)

This is why I’m happy that this bug forced me to search for an alternative workflow that involves Scaler doing just chords, and my bare hand (With A Little Help From My Friend Ableton) doing the solo

BTW, I wasted many days to try to understand how having 2 smaller MIDI keyboards joined to have a larger keyboard, because I always believed that each of the 2 Hammond keyboards started where the other ended, but yesterday I think to have understood that they are actually 2 distinct keyboards (with their own generators) that can be used for the same stuff, or for totally different stuff if needed

And in case I understood it wrong, no problem: the motto above applies again  
🤣

This finding opened a welcome simplification of my Hammond workflow that I explain here

The routings  
Scaler delivers chords and the Latch option is selected, so that I can click 1 key on the smaller keyboard, then I can use both my hands on the larger one

 ![Routings](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/uploads/scalermusic/original/2X/1/166bcda331d919d706a5ed6a6eb2c6f175492e3d.jpeg)

The scaler xml  
[Scaler-State\_2021-05-12\_023946.xml](https://forum.scalermusic.com/uploads/short-url/9rcmSJIDSwU7VHTQybX10iYOEHm.xml) (6.8 KB)

Thinking to my previous [reasoning](https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/too-much-stuffed-vibes-is-not-so-good/7039) I decided to skip the drums, because the Hammond used for chords is rhythmic enough alone

Moreover, even if the Bossanova series is 7 chords, I used 2 only: 1st mostly, and the 4th to do a sort-of-chorus

The Ableton trick to do solos without Scaler is… Scale  
🤣

Nevertheless, just using the same scale used by Scaler, a G major doesn’t work because many notes are out of tune: dunno why

 ![Cattura](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/uploads/scalermusic/original/2X/d/d8ef94144b4584d4a84947eece60c8a49c3d832e.jpeg)

So I had to add another scale before (not after) the root one, and I eventually ended with most notes in tune

The HUGE difference between this trick and Scaler green-keys, is that Scaler lets me play very few (max 5) and similar notes, while Ableton scales let me play the solo over the WHOLE 49 keys keyboard!

The [resulting tune](https://soundcloud.com/user-658469515/bare-hands) reminds me of the sound in Tunng - Comments Of The Inner Chorus, but I’ll upload the MP3 later this night