QWERTY MIDI – Isomorphic Layout MIDI Controller
QWERTY MIDI – Isomorphic Layout MIDI Controller launched on August 7, 2026 with 6 votes, #1,590 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Every now and then, when I was a child, I remember going to an electronics store and opening ‘GarageBand’ on a mac computer. One of GarageBand’s features is something called “musical typing” and involves turning the computer’s QWERTY keyboard into a piano-like input device for typing in notes into the software. Many current DAWs include a similar UI and allow for basic realtime musical input without external controllers. I found myself wishing for a few extra features on the ‘computer MIDI’ implementation on the DAW I’ll mostly use. After thinking about it for a bit, I realized there might be a different approach to using the computer keyboard as an input device, more similar to that of…from beijaflor.io
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