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I'm going to have to sell my Pico. It's silver and in perfect working order, but I just don't have time for it and it could have a far better home. Plus then I could spend the money on instruments I do use… Located in the UK. Anyone interested before I post it more widely?

I'm considering using the Pico for accompanying myself singing. It seems to me that a good idea for that might be if I can get it to behave something like the bass end of an accordion - i.e. at least some of the buttons produce chords rather than single notes. I'm not looking to do anything enormously complicated, musically - at least not at first. Does anybody have any ideas how one might do this? I guess it's fairly simple to hook up multiple sound-producing agents within the setup, but I don't know how you'd go about arranging for them to produce the right notes. I don't have Ableton or MAX or anything like that which I could program to do it either.

I can't believe I can't find documentation for this, but... how do I change to a custom scale on the Pico? It's defined in my user scales file, but that documentation doesn't say how to select one. Obviously it's not mapped in the scale selection functions of the default setup because that wouldn't know about it. I found a page on Belcanto which suggested I could say something like "sampler 1 hey scale to (whatever) set" but I always get "Invalid arguments for verb set" back, even with built-in scale names and actually examples from the documentation. And I can't find anything that even reminds me how to get hold of the scale browser. I know it's mode key, something, something, something, maybe something else, but a load of red and orange and green lights doesn't really tell me very much. And I'm not quite sure where my factory setup reference card is right now. Probably in the Pico's box, under a pile of other boxes, in t...

Got my new laptop set up with EigenD and my Pico. Dead pleased with performance and latency compared to desktop, now I need to get it hooked up to the amp I just bought and get playing! Exciting times ahead probably involving more purchases. Some kind of foot pedal seems like a good idea in the medium term. Especially if I can get it to control EigenD.