This is the name of a community project, based on the software Midi2Kb, given in source under the same licence as the CommunityWiki offers their pages (GeneralPublicLicence, CreativeCommons, ShareAlike).

What is Midi2Kb:

• This is a program, that allows a touchsensible Midi keyboard to enhance or even replace the PC-keyboard.

What is it good for

• Just let me look into WardsWiki, where the author mentionned the idea years ago
  • Wiki:PianoKeyboard

• Meanwhile the author has written an undocumented prototype, detecting more benefits
  • faster input than on a PC keyboard, due to very elegant Macro-Calls via AutoHotKey
    • pressure and timesensitive chords (yeah, a MidiKeyboard can be a lowcost steno-machine)
    • playing it without looking at it, this is easier than on a not so homogenous PC keyboard, using alt,ctr, shift etc.
  • permanent eartraining
  • more training for pianists on the "right" keyboard, when writing an email or posting, then of course with Midi
  • more inspiration for compositions
  • depending on the Midi Keyboard Layout, it appears to be really more ergonomic
  • usable to control
    • graphics programs
    • music composition software (in different ways, not thought of by the composition software)
    • text and browser programs
    • VJ-ing (animation performance)

Why is it relevant for community building:

• it bridges at least 7 communities:
  • AutoHotKey, build around a free rich macro system for windows.
  • KeyKit, an object-oriented C dialect for composing and performing Midi music
  • WikidPad, a personal Wiki with a built in Database engine for efficient storage of pages
  • MeatballWiki, a community, that helps to build communities
  • CommunityWiki, that is similar to Meatball, additionally offering a free **** WikiFarm. (CommunityWiki:odd)
  • the DiiGo community (with its subcommunities) using social annotations and bookmarks
  • the wider Blog community

What are the involved TwinWikis:

• [CommunityWikiOdd:MidiToKbForSource]
• [MidiToKbForDocumentation]
• [MidiToKbForTalk]
• [MidiToKbForWebWeaving]
• [MidiToKbForMarketing] (as the suggested alternative for AntiSpam )

-- FridemarPache

Discussion:

• Remark: When looking in the page Wiki:PianoKeyboard, you can verify that currently (2006-12-03 00:21) MeatballWiki is not a real TwinWiki to WardsWiki yet, e.g.

• • because for Wiki:PianoKeyboard there is no TwinLink to a WantedPage in MeatballWiki (although you could change this)
  • you see however in this line a TwinLink from MeatballWiki:MidiToKb to a WantedPage Wiki:MidiToKb ;-)

• In our community project MidiToKb it would be nice to have WikiPrefixes available on all involved TwinWikis.

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