Pianocat

Creative

music instrument

SHOW HN2015

Pianocat

Command-line piano that plays notes on the keyboard.AI

javier.io

#terminal piano#command line music#keyboard piano#sox

48points
17comments
#590of 2,565 in 2015
Top 24%of 2015 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

1 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 2 comments about the project.

Execution: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Fun and cool to use from the command line

    From 1 comment
    • This is really cool. For anyone else who wants to run this on Mac OS X, try installing sox first (brew install sox). That's all I had to do and then I was up and running. A quick…
      anaximander on HN

Questions

  • Which keyboard layout does the mapping assume

    From 2 comments
    • Which keyboard layout makes it easy to type ñ, {, and } on the same row as j, k, and l? I guessed Brazilian (based on the EN/PT/ES on your profile), but that doesn't seem quite…
      bsimpson on HN
    • That would be a Spanish QWERTY keyboard: http://sdcdn1.s3.amazonaws.com/images/vocabulary/spanishkeyboard.jpg
      Mahn on HN
  • Why D# is mapped to R instead of E

    From 1 comment
    • Why is the note D# mapped to R instead of E?
      7Z7 on HN

Alternatives named

  • Commodore 64 piano keyboard overlay programs such as Music Maker

    From 2 comments
    • This reminds me of a cartridge I used to have on my Commodore 64 (don't remember the name off-hand) that came with a piano overlay that you actually sat on top of the C64…
      fr0styMatt2 on HN
    • Quite possibly Music Maker: http://retro-treasures.blogspot.co.uk/2007/11/commodore-64-music-maker.html Though there may have been other ones too. There were certainly lots of…
      vidarh on HN
  • MilkyTracker

    From 1 comment

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