{"id":21342,"date":"2011-11-22T18:43:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T16:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=21342"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:54:48","slug":"midipiano-a-great-keyboard-piano-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/midipiano-a-great-keyboard-piano-for-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Midipiano: a great keyboard piano for Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve always wanted to learn the piano<\/strong> but don’t want to invest in a real keyboard, you can always turn your PC keyboard into a Piano<\/strong>! It’s not ideal, but also not a bad way of playing simple melodies on your PC. MidiPiano<\/a> is the neatest Windows <\/strong>app I’ve found for this.<\/p>\n

\"Qwerty<\/p>\n

MidiPiano has two windows, the keyboard with controls<\/strong>, and a piano roll<\/strong> into which you can upload midi files<\/strong>. When you record yourself playing, it’s recorded here too, in midi format.<\/p>\n

How to use MidiPiano<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I’ve played a real piano a couple of times, and using a qwerty keyboard is a bit awkward in comparison! The layout runs the white keys along four rows: starting at the bottom with the Z<\/strong> to M<\/strong> keys, then continuing with A<\/strong> to L<\/strong>, Q<\/strong> to P<\/strong> and then 1<\/strong> to 0<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The cursor keys, and numpad also let you run further up the keyboard, but it’s much more comfortable sticking to the four first rows. Black keys<\/strong> can be found by using Ctrl<\/strong> plus any other key. Holding shift<\/strong> allows you to play one note with the octave above at the same time. The record<\/strong> feature helpfully starts when you play your first note, and the midi file will finish with your last.<\/p>\n

MidiPiano is free, and doesn’t require installation. Check out my review and download MidiPiano here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve always wanted to learn the piano but don’t want to invest in a real keyboard, you can always turn your PC keyboard into a Piano! It’s not ideal, but also not a bad way of playing simple melodies on your PC. MidiPiano is the neatest Windows app I’ve found for this. MidiPiano has … Continue reading “Midipiano: a great keyboard piano for Windows”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2952],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-21342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionmidipiano"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334004,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21342\/revisions\/334004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21342"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=21342"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=21342"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=21342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}