Pianoputer

This library lets you to play your computer keyboard like a piano. Here is a video of it in action on a French azerty keyboard.

Play!

Pianoputer only works in python3 so make sure you are using python3

pip install pianoputer
pianoputer

After a few seconds, the below image will appear in a window, indicating that the program is ready. The cyan key is the key that the sample wav file is assigned to. By default this is c4, the piano middle C at 261.6 hz All white and black keys are transposed up and down from the anchor cyan key.

Changing the sound file

You can provide your own sound file with

pianoputer --wav my_sound_file.wav

For example:

pianoputer -w audio_files/bowl_c6.wav

All white and black keys are transposed up and down from the anchor cyan key.

Changing the keyboard layout

Note that the default keyboard configuration (stored in file keyboards/qwerty_piano.txt) is for the most commonly used QWERTY keyboards. You can change the configuration so that it matches your keyboard, for instance using the alternative keyboards/azerty_typewriter.txt:

pianoputer -k keyboards/azerty_typewriter.txt

These .txt files simply contain a sequence of key names and are easy to edit. For convenience this repository also provides a make_kb_file.py program:

python make_kb_file.py

This will let you press the keys in the order that you want, and create a new keyboard configuration file, by default my_keyboard.kb (just follow the instructions). You can then use the custom keyboard file with the --keyboard argument

Local Installation

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
# if you want to edit the program and have pianoputer use your edits
pip install -e .
# to install pianoputer separately in your virtual environment
pip install .
pianoputer

Attributions

• c4 piano sample from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Middle_C.mid

Changelog

https://github.com/Zulko/pianoputer/tree/master/CHANGELOG.md