First take a time, go buy some popcorns and a beer and read this thread here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Pi...furJTceGlYOL38
You may heard of it as Janko keyboard, Uniform Keyboard.
I had an idea of it almost 10 years back but thought it was
my stupid excuse for being lazy to learn play the piano!
So it was more than 125 years old idea... some peoples like
me are just its reminding echo through the century!
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Now if you get it to this point here is what I would ask for Cockos team:
Could it be possible to make an additional MIDI sequencer view (optional) as it is with MIDI events
to show up as fixed lenght (drum mode)? Just an option for 'Show MIDI sequencer as Janko's design'.
Did I wrote Janko?! Oh, yes he was back then 120 years ago the man who created the idea of such a
piano keyboard design. None listened to him, although Franz Liszt (the great pianist and composer)
at his declining years once said:
"This invention will have replaced the present piano keyboard in fifty years' time!"
He wasnt' right because the young students had no teachers and most of them followed the rule that
the Sun, the Moon and the stars are spinning around the Earth and that should be it forever!
You may want to look here for more historical info:
http://www.pianoworld.com/fun/janko.htm
To be honest I arrived at the conclusion without knowing that Paul von Janko has lived anyway. Total
independently a couple of years back. And I do not want to be claimed as the author of the idea.
I'm just maybe the echo from the century past death of Paul von Janko. The company Korg
made an electronic synthesizer based on the Janko's design back in 2003-2004 but I do not like
their design, it is infantile and trifle. And it is very expensive because it is a prototype:
http://chroma.jp/what/index.html
That's why I never looked up if there was such a MIDI keyboard or synthesizer. The PC keyboard was
a perfect approximation for that, although the issues of limited polyphony. But it was cheap and a
good starting point.
Now there must be a software and many people around the globe will see how easy it is to play piano.
Not the good-old piano keyboard though! It seems like REAPER would be the perfect environment
for that to make come true.
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In fact this post is about the PC keyboard similar design and
how by using it as appropriate assigned MIDI keyboard the idea could spread all over the world just at first with a regular cheap PC keyboard, then by using REAPER and its sequencer if Cockos Team make it come happen!
I've sent an e-mail to Florian Bomers of Bome's Software
http://www.bome.com/products/
so lets see if something will happen at least this century (and from 01.012001 it's the next millenium in fact)!