[LAU] QWERTY to midi?

Brett W. McCoy idragosani at gmail.com
Fri Apr 13 13:49:28 EDT 2007


On 4/13/07, Josh Lawrence <hardbop200 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like to trigger samples with a qwerty keyboard.  I am aware
> that freewheelin will allow loops to be turned off/on with a qwerty
> keyboard, but I am looking for more one-shot sample triggering.  It
> would be nice to be able to assign multiple samples (whether loops,
> one-shot, etc.) to different keys and be able to trigger them by
> pressing the key.  Is this possible?  If so, what applications can be
> used to do it?

vkeybd might be what you want to use... it allows you to map your
computer keyboard to a virtual MIDI keyboard and control an AWE32, OSS
or ALSA based sequencer.

-- Brett
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