🎹 MIDK

Mapping MIDI keypress to PC keyboard, that you can work or code with your MIDI kerboard 🎉

(e.g. this project is code in midk)

Install & Usage

npm i -g midk

midk

Dev & Debug

launch midk portal and watching files change

npm start

visual the keys-mapping like the above preview image, preview in https://midk.zthxxx.me

npm run cheatsheet

Customization

you can customize keys-mapping in config file ~/.midk/midk.yml (created after install).

the default config is stored in src/portal.ts

# choose a pitch notation which is used for note names in config
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_pitch_notation
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_pitch_notation
pitchNotation: Scientific  # Scientific | Helmholtz

# if enable playMode, stop to control keyboard
playMode:
  # default enable when start
  enable: false
  # composite keys to toggle enable/disable playMode
  toggle:
    - CSharp2
    - DSharp2
    - ASharp5

# all supported key names are written in `keyboard.ts`
# https://github.com/zthxxx/midk/blob/master/src/keyboard.ts
#
# interface Portal {
#   [NoteName]: KeyName
# }
portal:
  CSharp2: escape
  FSharp2: tab
  G2: control
  GSharp2: capsLock
  A2: alt
  ASharp2: shift
  B2: command

  C3: a
  CSharp3: q
  D3: z
  DSharp3: w
  E3: s
  F3: x

  ...

# when press the Fn-key, alter some keys mapping
#
# interface FnPortal {
#   [NoteName]: Portal
# }
fnPortal:
  C2:
    CSharp3: f1
    D3: f2
    DSharp3: f3
    E3: f4
    F3: f5

    ...

License

MIT LICENSE

Author

midk © zthxxx, Released under the MIT License.

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