Charles Vestal has released Qwertet – QWERTY To MIDI, available for $4.99.
Your computer keyboard, turned into a MIDI controller: four layouts, from plain piano to one-key chords. Standalone or AUv3.
Connect a typing keyboard to your iPad or iPhone and it becomes a MIDI controller: USB or Bluetooth and works great with the iPad Magic Keyboard. Four layouts, from a plain piano to one-kev chords. Run it on its own, or as an AUv3 inside AUM, Logic and the rest. Nothing else to buy.
4 Ways To Play:
- Chromatic – laid out like a piano. with black notes up top, plus pitch and modwheel shortcuts
- In-Key – set a key and lock vourself to its scale Wrong notes are hard to plav.
- Fourths – a grid tuned in fourths, letting you transpose chord shapes across the scale.
- Chord – one key, one chord. Major, minor, dim, aug or sus, with 6, m7, M7 or 9 on top.
Expression From The Keys:
- Number-row shortcuts for pitch bend and modwheel.
- Hold the spacebar as a sustain pedal.
- Shift switches between two velocities for extra dynamics.
- Change the root, scale or octave and the whole board moves with it.
Touch Or Type:
- Play the on-screen keys with your fingers, or connect a USB, Bluetooth or Magic Kevboard and type notes on real keys.
- Every layout works both ways – no hardware needed to get started
Works Everywhere:
- Standalone app, or an AUv3 MIDI plug-in inside AUM, Logic, Cubasis, Drambo and other hosts
- Sends to any CoreMIDI destination – hardware other apps, or the host
- Includes a suite of instrument samples to audition QWERTET’s layouts.
- iPhone and iPad, iOS16 and up
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