keyboard keyboard?

[jacheatamobits]

okay, this is for all you fruity loopers out there...

dont get me wrong, fruity loops is a swell proggy, but i dont feel like buying a keyboard to input midi...

is there a way to use the keyboard AS a keyboard?

like: zxcvbnm, would be th Cmaj scale, with "sd" and "ghj" being the #'s...

i dont have a roblem composing music with a keyboard, but this would make ALOT of sense, seeing as hardware sequencers you buy only have a one-octave keyboard, which is enough for what i want to make "ala: trance-jungle"

i absolutely LOVE the Rmx-1, roland's groove boxes, and the Korg electribes, but the only advantage to them is the real-time control knobs for live preformance (and the samples/synthesizers arent up to par for live preformance anyway) but im not going to do live electronic music, im still stuggling with guitar...

anyway...

i love the versatility of Fruity Loops, and wasnt to use their sequencer and real time effects, cause i like to tweak everything to EXACTLY how i want it to sound, but i cant even beging to tell you how impossible it is to try to compse stuff with those little green tabs on a vertical keyboard-layout-type-crazy-exuse-for-an-insturment-with-a-mouse deal.

if you didnt understand a word of this, just smile and nod.

[tom10167]

Just wondering what "Trance Jungle" sounds like. Oh, get Reason, it's a MUCH better program, and most composers like Fruityloops, but don't really use it.

[n17ikh]

I remember that the Creative SB Live Value card's driver CD came with a program that could do this... It worked so that you could use the keyboard as a MIDI keyboard, just as you said. I'm sure someone, somewhere, has made some standalone software that can do it too...

[Cyrix_2k]

modtracker has this functionality. get it at www.modplug.com