[LAU] Re: Re: QWERTY to midi?

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Sun Apr 15 18:20:01 EDT 2007


Hallo,
Ismael Valladolid Torres hat gesagt: // Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:

> Brett W. McCoy escribe:
> > How else would it work? Would you want your keystrokes interpreted as
> > MIDI messages if you had to move to another application?
> 
> I know, this is the way it's supposed to work. Simply, it's a pity
> that a computer keyboard can't be used as a MIDI one, to send notes or
> control changes.

With, again, Pd (and maybe some other apps, too) you can read the
keyboard even when "out of focus" using the [hid] external wich
directly reads events from the /dev/input/... device files. 

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__



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