alt Hacker NewsIt be nice if you mapped the keys to the user keyboard kinda like ableton, for people who dont have a midi controller handy
White Keys: The keys from ‘A’ to ‘L’ on your keyboard correspond to the white keys on a piano, covering a full octave from C to D. Black Keys: The keys in between, like ‘W’ and ‘E’, correspond to the black keys or the sharp notes on a piano. from : https://www.electrikjam.com/use-your-keyboard-as-a-midi-cont...
Replies
smeej • last Friday at 9:25 PM
Also a possibility: An on-screen keyboard. I'd happily click the keys. Or even the lines on the staff for that matter.
This, but (or "and") use the 4-row layout that dozens of tracker programs used[0], to fit over 2 octaves on the computer keyboard.
On a US keyboard:
QWERTYUIOP[] is the white keys starting at middle C. (The row above is the black keys; the 2 key plays C#.)
ZXCVBNM,./ is the white keys starting an octave lower. (S plays a low C#.)
The two ranges overlap; e.g. Q and , both play C in the same octave.
Grew up composing music on a computer this way when my (musical) keyboard didn't have MIDI and I couldn't afford a better one :)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker