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Paul von Janko was born in western Hungary in 1856. He was trained as a mathematician and became a musician and engineer, studying under physiologist and physicist Hermann von Helmholtz. In 1882, he patented a new form of keyboard layout, designed to allow the player to cover a wider span of notes with each hand and to make all keys equally easy to play. Janko's keyboard drew upon earlier designs by Conrad Henfling (1708), Johann Rohleder (1791) and William Lunn (1843). He used short narrow keys akin to buttons, and stacked them up to form six tiers. The notes were arranged in whole-tone intervals. The first tier, the third and the fifth play a whole-tone scale beginning from C. The secound, fourth and sixth tiers play a whole-tone scale beginning from C#. The shape and fingering of a given scale or chord is the same in any key and the octave span is reduced to 5" as opposed to 6-1/2" on a normal piano. In 1886, RW Kurka incorporated a Janko keyboard into a piano, and Paul von Janko himself demonstrated it in Vienna, playing works by Liszt, Schubert, and Chopin.

Audio driver classes provide an abstract audio device layer, which transparently supports ASIO, DirectSound, CoreAudio and ALSA devices.

Midi Midi input/output support on Mac and PC Midi message wrapper classes make it easy to manipulate midi using a high-level programming interface Midi buffer classes for efficient collating and editing of midi streams Midi keyboard state objects will monitor a midi stream and provide information about the state of a virtual keyboard Classes for merging and re-timing midi input streams to synchronise with audio streams. Support for reading/writing standard midi format files.

whenever a news site or blog runs a story about one of these alternative controllers, the naysayers crawl out of the slime and start whining “there’s no way I could ever learn to play that”, “it has too many buttons and it scares me”, “I invested in keyboard lessons and I’m not throwing away all that investment”, etc etc. The simple fact that the Jankó design was MEANT TO BE EASIER TO PLAY….they don’t care. Musicians are so conservative it’s disgusting.

Make your own physical sweaty interactive computer music interface • While knowing very little about electronics • And only spending a few dollars. Previous research demonstrated that: • Making your own MIDI interfaces is difficult and expensive. • In fact you have to buy silly programmable EPROMs and shit.

This EzKEY combo mouse and keypad might be just what you're looking for if you're on the road, suddenly need to add a long list of numbers, and your laptop doesn't have a keypad. Just flip up the top as you would open your car's trunk, and there you have a keypad to do so quick number crunching. Flip it down, and it works and feels just like any other mouse.