Keyboard

An on-screen piano and QWERTY keys: play notes by hand

Open in the synth with a demo patch Open Modular

What it does

Keyboard is a two-octave piano inside the module: click the keys with the mouse or play from the computer keyboard (A W S E D F T G Y H U J K L, with Z and X shifting the octave). Every key press leaves as an event on the Note output, and Gate and Vel carry the same thing as CV: the gate stays up while a key is held, Vel is how hard you pressed. Hold keeps notes from releasing, handy for pad chords when you need both hands for the knobs.

Try this

Connect Keyboard to Voice and play your first notes right on the screen.

Ports

note: Notes: a key press is an event, releasing it ends the note
gate: Gate CV: 1 while at least one key is held
vel: Velocity CV (0…1)

Parameters

Octave · Velocity · Hold

Try this

Keyboard Note → Voice Note with Attack 1 s and Release 6 s: press chords and hold them while they wash over each other.
Gate → VCA Gain with a Drone on the VCA input: the drone sounds only while you hold a key.
Switch on Hold, press the three notes of a chord and sweep the filter with both hands.

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