Hey guys. I'm looking for a program that will play drums when I press keys on my keyboard. (Kinda like emulating a drum machine)
Like, so basically when I press the letter B, the computer plays 1 tone.
So
when I press the letter "L" a bass drum sound plays. Or when I press "K" a snare drum plays. You know, just like a drum machine.
etc etc.
Are there any programs that could do this?
It'd also be cool if the program would let me play piano the same way.
Drums on Computer Keyboard?
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You associate a WAV file to a button on the keyboard and it plays when you press the button. Well at least it says it can. I haven't tried it.
You associate a WAV file to a button on the keyboard and it plays when you press the button. Well at least it says it can. I haven't tried it.
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You could use the demo of FLstudio, but then you have to set each drum to a key every time you open it. Get the demo anyway, it comes with a lot of great drum samples, and other things too.
EDIT: FLstudio does piano great too. Just drag the FruityKeys plugin and turn on the keyboard and type away.
EDIT: FLstudio does piano great too. Just drag the FruityKeys plugin and turn on the keyboard and type away.
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About a year ago I wrote a program in VB6 that did the same thing. I don't have it anymore, but it wasn't very hard to write. (I also programmed it so that incoming data on the serial port could trigger the drums so that I could make an electronic drum kit using a laptop, microcontroller, and drum pads with piezoelectric crystals inside. This never materialized, lol.)
I'd imagine right now you wish you were a cuttlefish...
honestly Fruity Loops is the best solution out there for now
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