Sometime it's nice to not have to plug in a keyboard to play around with a softsynth, especially when you're writing one. So here's a little app you can use instead. It shows a little keyboard on screen, and you can use the computer keyboard to play MIDI notes. 'z' through ',' is the octave starting a middle C (note 60). The keys on the row above are flats (black keys), and the octave below is on the row starting with 'q' (and the digit row is that octave's flats).In addition, you can select a MIDI source and see incoming notes played on the keyboard.
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Great to make a few notes with GarageBand on a laptop. Works perfectly in Panther.
Handy!
Luminous
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This is the best way I've found to play without peripherals, and it makes adding notes in Reason and Garageband a piece of cake. Indespensible!
Very nice. Works great with GarageBand!
Tom Dibble
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />To the other commenters: Look in preferences. There are "on top" and "global keys" options (the latter requires you to hold down the "Ctrl" or other modifier key while playing in GarageBand, but still ... it works!)
Very nice way to play around with GarageBand while I don't have a keyboard hooked up to my Mac ...
Why does it have to be the \"active\" app?
Bobby June
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This is a nice app. But what would be even better would be it playing, for example reason, while in the background. this way, i can tweak reason knobs while hitting notes and hearing my results instead of going back and forth between reason and midi keys.
another nice feature would be allowing me to build my own keyboard map.
great job.
Luminous
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Sweetness. Perfect, free, pretty. 5 stars. Solid.
verlaine76
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Nice to see the Japanese localisation thing fixed, and I've deleted my previous post accordingly. A way cool app! Too much latency on polyphonies but
Achim1
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Very nice - the "thru" doesn't work here, though (german localization, if that matters) - this is the only wish I had for MidiKeys in
fKing
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />great little app, as stated, works with reason (will try it next time i'm running around without my oxy8...) but also d/l'd thejapanese version!