Piano program

[MasterGy]

Hello ! I want to make a piano program that uses the windows midi. Programming midi used to take a lot of time to become usable with qb64, but it finally works and I understand. Now, however, I get stuck wanting a keyboard wizard in the program. Everyone can calibrate their own keyboard for the piano. But here I get into total chaos. Try it. Shift, ctrl, stick. Still, what should I measure? I also tried it with Qb 1.5, unfortunately the same problem. What do I need to read to find out what button is pressed? No shift, ctrl, I just want a simple assignment. I can't assign it to _keydown because it's chaotic.

Code: QB64: [Select]

1. Do: _Limit 25: Cls
2.     Locate 1, 1
3.     For t = 1 To 255
4.         a = _KeyDown(t)
5.         If a Then Print t
6.     Next t
7.     _Display
8. Loop
9.  

[SMcNeill]

_KEYHIT, instead of _KEYDOWN

[bplus]

Wouldn't _keydown help with holding a note for awhile?

demo: your bottom row of letters on keyboard are now notes on piano abcdefgA,  A an octave higher than a

Code: QB64: [Select]

1. For i = 1 To 80
2.     If _KeyDown(122) Then Locate 1, i: Print "a";
3.     If _KeyDown(120) Then Locate 2, i: Print "b";
4.     If _KeyDown(99) Then Locate 3, i: Print "c";
5.     If _KeyDown(118) Then Locate 4, i: Print "d";
6.     If _KeyDown(98) Then Locate 5, i: Print "e";
7.     If _KeyDown(110) Then Locate 6, i: Print "f";
8.     If _KeyDown(109) Then Locate 7, i: Print "g";
9.     If _KeyDown(44) Then Locate 8, i: Print "A";
10.     _Limit 1 'once per second
11. Next
12.  

Each sec records a hole for your piano player tape