I'm on holiday soon and the laptop is coming with me. unfortunately i just don't have enough room for even an oxygen 8 keyboard.

I heard of a program that can convert your computer keyboard into piano keys. I found one shareware called KBPiano i believe, but haven't downloaded until i consulted the forum.

The main requirement would be that it could be used to input midi data into cubase (echo indigo installed in laptop too). is this at all possible and could you point me in the right direction?

Cheers

I'm sure Tobybear has one of these.

it's called QuickKeys and it's part of the MidiBag

wow, just the ticket and more to boot

i think a donation is in order when i get home

cheers

Just buy FLS

that's one of the features in Unity, also...

mapped out on the 4 rows of keyboard characters from the bottom row on up would read white, black, white, black

Trollo. You'll find it in the quick instrument links.

Also, Mkey.

You also need a loop back virtual in/out(like Hubbe's loopback or midi yoke) to record the midi data that you play.

http://www.samchillian.com/
check this out: a relative midi controller (hardware, but there's also a free software version)
instead of fixed pitch, each key plays a change of pitch...
the soft version is pretty nice for laptop jamming

FWIW: sometimes I do some patch creation/editing on my laptop. Normally I use FL 4.52 as a host with its “Typing keyboard to piano” option activated. But this method is less than convenient for some synths due to focus issues. What happens: you tweak something on the VSTi; as a result it gets the focus; then the keyboard events (note ons) doesn’t get to the VSTi any more unless you click anywhere on the FL screen (out of the VSTi window); then the focus returns to FL and the VSTi restart making sounds again as you type on the keyboard.

For these cases I use Synth Edit and connect Trollo and the VSTi I want inside it (Trollo generating the MIDI events). It works perfectly. You just need to get used to the noises you get when doing *any* typing, like when naming or saving patches. You could stop Synth Edit when doing this but then it wouldn’t be half as funny...