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48 pointschilicuil11y ago17 comments

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bsimpson11y ago· 3 in thread

Which keyboard layout makes it easy to type ñ, {, and } on the same row as j, k, and l? I guessed Brazilian (based on the EN/PT/ES on your profile), but that doesn't seem quite right according to Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_keyboard_layout#/med...

Mahn11y ago

That would be a Spanish QWERTY keyboard: http://sdcdn1.s3.amazonaws.com/images/vocabulary/spanishkeyb...

bsimpson11y ago

Thanks

nandemo11y ago

ñ is not in the Portuguese alphabet. In Portuguese, the palatal nasal sound is usually represented by "nh", e.g. Spanish "baño" -> Portuguese "banho".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatal_nasal

DustinCalim11y ago· 3 in thread

Stickiness is music is when the mind can predict what comes next without ever actually hearing what comes next before.

coldtea11y ago

Not necessarily. That's familiarity. But a familiar piece might not be sticky at all, just boring.

panic11y ago

Exactly. Otherwise the same note played over and over at an even tempo would be "sticky" (which is nonsense).

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7Z711y ago

How can you be familiar with something you've never heard before?

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fr0styMatt211y ago· 1 in thread

This reminds me of a cartridge I used to have on my Commodore 64 (don't remember the name off-hand) that came with a piano overlay that you actually sat on top of the C64 keyboard. The overlay was designed to press certain keys down on the keyboard when you hit the piano keys.

Great memories!

vidarh11y ago

Quite possibly Music Maker: http://retro-treasures.blogspot.co.uk/2007/11/commodore-64-m...

Though there may have been other ones too.

There were certainly lots of "piano" programs that used the keyboard that mostly would work with the same overlays.

anaximander11y ago

This is really cool. For anyone else who wants to run this on Mac OS X, try installing sox first (brew install sox). That's all I had to do and then I was up and running.

A quick melody from a favorite song that I transcribed: "D4 A4 D5 F5 D5 A4 D4 A4 D5 E5 D5 A4 G3 G4 A#4 D#5 A#4 G4 G3 G4 A#4 D5 A#4 G4 A3 E4 A4 D5 A4 E4 A3 E4 A4 C#5 A4 E4"

I love to see the command line put to good use like this!

bbcbasic11y ago

Inspired by this I have uploaded some sample piano notes (.ogg) for fellow hackers to use for their piano apps!

See https://github.com/mcapodici/pianosounds

7Z711y ago

Why is the note D# mapped to R instead of E?

illicium11y ago

http://milkytracker.org/

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14 comments · 7 top-level

bsimpson11y ago· 3 in thread

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_keyboard_layout#/med...

Mahn11y ago

That would be a Spanish QWERTY keyboard: http://sdcdn1.s3.amazonaws.com/images/vocabulary/spanishkeyb...

bsimpson11y ago

Thanks

nandemo11y ago

ñ is not in the Portuguese alphabet. In Portuguese, the palatal nasal sound is usually represented by "nh", e.g. Spanish "baño" -> Portuguese "banho".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatal_nasal

DustinCalim11y ago· 3 in thread

Stickiness is music is when the mind can predict what comes next without ever actually hearing what comes next before.

coldtea11y ago

Not necessarily. That's familiarity. But a familiar piece might not be sticky at all, just boring.

panic11y ago

Exactly. Otherwise the same note played over and over at an even tempo would be "sticky" (which is nonsense).

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7Z711y ago

How can you be familiar with something you've never heard before?

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fr0styMatt211y ago· 1 in thread

Great memories!

vidarh11y ago

Quite possibly Music Maker: http://retro-treasures.blogspot.co.uk/2007/11/commodore-64-m...

Though there may have been other ones too.

There were certainly lots of "piano" programs that used the keyboard that mostly would work with the same overlays.

anaximander11y ago

This is really cool. For anyone else who wants to run this on Mac OS X, try installing sox first (brew install sox). That's all I had to do and then I was up and running.

A quick melody from a favorite song that I transcribed: "D4 A4 D5 F5 D5 A4 D4 A4 D5 E5 D5 A4 G3 G4 A#4 D#5 A#4 G4 G3 G4 A#4 D5 A#4 G4 A3 E4 A4 D5 A4 E4 A3 E4 A4 C#5 A4 E4"

I love to see the command line put to good use like this!

bbcbasic11y ago

Inspired by this I have uploaded some sample piano notes (.ogg) for fellow hackers to use for their piano apps!

See https://github.com/mcapodici/pianosounds

7Z711y ago

Why is the note D# mapped to R instead of E?

illicium11y ago

http://milkytracker.org/

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