MIDI Keyboard 1.5.2

MIDI Keyboard

MIDI Keyboard is a software MIDI keyboard. You can use it to generate MIDI messages using the mouse or pc keyboard and to view MIDI from other programs or a physical input.

Keyboard

Playing using the mouse

You can play the keyboard by clicking the primary or tertiary mouse button. they support different playing modes:

• The primary mouse button allows for playing more than one key with a single mouse down. Only blacks/whites or played when the mouse is above/below the keyboard. The velocity is fixed at 100.
• The tertiary mouse button allows half and full note-on velocity depending on the mouse down position. Only one note is played per mouse down.

Playing using the pc keyboard

When midikeyboard's window has the keyboard focus it's possible to play using the pc keyboard. two octaves (zsxdcvgbhnjm, q2w3er5t6y7u on an american keyboard layout) and the spacebar for sustain are used. The up/down arrows are for transpose.

Menu

Clicking the keyboard with the secondary mouse button accesses the keyboard menu. With it you can:

• toggle marks on/off
  
• enable display of octave numbers
  
• change the keyboard's size
• toggle float mode on/off
  
• enable chord play

Status View

In the lower left corner of midikeyboard's window is the status view. A blue light indicates MIDI data on it's input. The value of the last note it played/received is displayed for some time (clicking in the status view with the secondary mouse button toggles midi number display on/off).

Clicking in the status view accesses a menu. With it you can:

• send midi all-notes-off (panic)
• set the send/receive channel
• connect
• show the about box
• quit the application