todbot blog » musicprog http://todbot.com/blog Random experiments, circuits, code, rapid prototyping, sometimes things to buy, and the odd tune by Tod E. Kurt. Sun, 30 May 2010 23:51:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 VKB Virtual Keyboard available http://todbot.com/blog/2004/12/31/vkb-virtual-keyboard-available/ http://todbot.com/blog/2004/12/31/vkb-virtual-keyboard-available/#comments Fri, 31 Dec 2004 08:31:48 +0000 todbot http://todbot.com/blog/archives/2004/12/31/vkb-virtual-keyboard-available/ While they were mentioned on Slashdot over two years ago, these “virtual keyboards” seemed to always be just a little bit further on the horizon, and to be incorporated into cell phones and PDAs, not as a stand-alone gadget amenable to hacking.

But it looks like one company, VKB has in production a stand-alone version with a serial port output. And at least one company in the US, “PC-notetaker” is selling them. For $199.

That’s just a bit expensive for casually buying one to hack apart and maybe turn into an interesting music performance gizmo. Maybe I’ll try [...]]]> http://todbot.com/blog/2004/12/31/vkb-virtual-keyboard-available/feed/ 0 OS X MIDI Blog http://todbot.com/blog/2004/06/15/os-x-midi-blog/ http://todbot.com/blog/2004/06/15/os-x-midi-blog/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:36:00 +0000 todbot http://todbot.com/blog/archives/2004/06/15/os-x-midi-blog/ Andrew Choi has an OS X Programming blog which contains a lot of useful and interesting observations and test code as he builds a auto-accompaniment application.

Potentially useful to my KCS remake idea (assuming I can use MusicPlayer and not have to write my own scheduler) are his experiments with the MusicSequence and MusicPlayer APIs that are part of Core Audio (and not, confusingly, really considered part of Core MIDI). Particularly useful is his MusicSequenceTest code that shows how to use it in a lot clearer way than the official example given in /Developer/Examples/CoreAudio/Services/PlaySequence.

Aside: just [...]]]> http://todbot.com/blog/2004/06/15/os-x-midi-blog/feed/ 2