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QWERTY keybaord "diatonic mode"?
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tristolas
3 posts | 1 Posted on 01/14/2007 at 02:46 Trying to mimic the shape/structure of a piano keyboard w/ a QWERTY keyboard is senseless I want to be able to have each row correspond to a different octave of the diatonic scale for example if you wanted to play in C scale, the top row keys would play CDEFGABCDEFG Is this available? or must I program it myself? is Visual Basic capable of programnming the keybaord, or would I have to tweak a lower level operating system feature? | ||
ra7or
370 posts | 2 Posted on 01/14/2007 at 11:04 if i understand correctly your question, maybe Virtual Midi Keyboard could be what you need. | ||
tristolas
3 posts | 3 Posted on 01/18/2007 at 17:17 yes, virtual keyboard software for my computer (using typing QWERTY keyboard to trigger notes) is what I'm looking for; only rather than having the middle row "ASDFG..." reproduce sounds of black # piano keys & bottom row "zxcvb..." represent white keys, I want each row to play the scale notes only, incrementing a step for each key to the left... the 3 (or 4) rows would start at different octaves... the top row (F1 F2 ...) I might want to program w/ chords or something... basically, I want to know how to program this keyboard's keys to specific notes... since I don't like how the standard software keyboards choose to arrange the notes. |
