Playing a musical keyboard online (fans around the Commodore64?)
Some ex-commodorista64 around?
Understood by chance on a blog (warioweb) This article shows that on a musical keyboard playable online…:
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If you do not have at home a keyboard or piano, but I'd like to play them the same, andate su https://piano.felipefialho.com/ and give vent to your imagination; on this site you can play a keyboard online high quality and compose their own melodies in easy and fun way!
We can freely play the notes with either the mouse or the keyboard, or compose music by playing the keyboard chords and notes, choosing the duration, breaks online and save our compositions in the database. I find this tool really well done. Let me know with a comment your opinion!
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…and, I said, apart from the fact that the idea is very good (sounds, changed in quality depending on whether you have a dial-up or ADSL, seem to be the classic GENERAL MIDI) for those who have a musical keyboard, in addition to being able to use the mouse even keys on the PC keyboard to play, I immediately came to my mind that something like I had already seen…
but certainly! 300 years ago (much) al Commodore 64.
Anyone, all’epoca, has read the original manual that came attached with C64, you will have noticed that in the last pages were many example programs (inter alia, with bad Italian translation, and full of errors).
Among these, there was also a program that took advantage of the glorious chip SID to synthesize waveforms, that, via a… species of GUI, could be changed by choosing between three different waveforms.
Having typed at the Commodore 64, and having passed with cavo X1541 all of the C64 floppy before you smagnetizzassero, turns you turn around the program is on one of my drives and can be used via the C64 emulator called CCS64.
Here's a full screenshot performed by CCS64:
Pianoforte musicale keyboard c64
Thanks to the utility Star Commander, is that disk images as folders, I was able to extract from one of my floppy single program, downloaded at this address: piano-c64
Just open this .prg file with the emulator and take a dip into the past 🙂
Update 15 May 2009:
The utente “the creator” I wrote, showing, come me, Passion in what is a star of retrocomputing as the Commodore 64.
He pointed to the URL of a video where you can hear a song composed by him on the C64, called “Appears evident”, using a program to create music with the processor SID. If you va, you can listen to (and view it) below 🙂