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RE: "Dragging Instruments Around" meets "laptop live"...
> I have been waiting for a QWERTY virtuoso to pop up, but haven't found
> him/her yet. Write a program to map your computer keyboard keys to MIDI
> notes.
I enjoy looping and playing with a qwerty keyboard,
using the keys for playing notes/phrases as well
as invoking a variety of control functions. With "chording"
(detecting several keys pressed simultaneously),
the number of features you can access quickly is
quite large, while still playing notes/phrases in parallel.
Being able to associate letters with the features
makes things easy to remember. (e.g. holding down
"up-arrow" and "f" simultaneously increases the "fracticality")
See http://nosuch.com/keykit/doc/lib/typo.html for
a description (outdated, but gives you the jist)
of the keyboard commands for my software.
I'll be using this as my primary instrument when I play
a set at 26mix in San Francisco next Tuesday, Mar 25.
If things go as planned, I'll be typing on a wireless
qwerty keyboard while dancing (well, plodding, actually)
about on a playstation dance pad which also triggers notes/phrases.
Visual enough? :-) Wish me luck.
...Tim...