Pointsman m4l v0.1.0

Pointsman is a DAW-native scale quantizer for MIDI: it snaps incoming
notes to a user-selected scale, with optional chord mode (single-note-
becomes-chord expansion via a configurable diatonic voice stack), and a
per-event humanize layer (velocity / gate / timing / drift).

This is the first release of the m4l target on im9/pointsman.

What it does

• 15 scale presets — major, minor, modes (dorian / phrygian / lydian /
  mixolydian / locrian), pentatonics, blues, harmonic / melodic minor,
  whole-tone, chromatic, plus a chromatic-half identity for passthrough.
• Snap is always nearest — binary-search to the nearest scale pitch.
• chord mode — single-note input expands to a diatonic voice stack
  (default 1-3-5 triad), voices configurable in the HARMONY group
  (interval ∈ {3, 4, 5, 6}, direction above/below).
• Per-event humanize — velocity, gate, timing, drift; all seeded for
  reproducibility (per-instance random seed).

Pairs naturally with any MIDI source upstream
([MIDI source] → [Pointsman] → [Synth]) — Turing-Machine-style chromatic
streams, arpeggiators, or live keyboard.

Install

1. Download Pointsman.amxd below.
2. Drag onto a MIDI track in Ableton Live (10.1+ / 11 / 12).
3. Place upstream of an instrument — Pointsman is a MIDI effect.

Requirements

• Ableton Live 10.1 or later with Max for Live.
• macOS or Windows (Max for Live runtimes; tested primarily on macOS).

License

Free. See LICENSE in the source repo.