6 May
2012
6 May
'12
8:12 p.m.
I also play piano also, but it's a completely
different skill,
depending on the ability to moderate stroke force and speed,
something that's completely irrelevant to computer keyboarding, not
to mention the chording aspect.
And timing. On a computer keyboard, for most purposes and to a very
good approximation, only the order of keystrokes matters; their exact
timing does not. Music is entirely different in that regard - indeed,
if the timing of multiple keystrokes is close enough to simultaneous,
order _doesn't_ matter.
I've sometimes wondered if I could take the output
of the MIDI
keyboard here and work out some sort system of music-to-letters, not
as abstract as Solresol. However, I'm convinced that I can't think
that fast.
I've considered just assigning a piano key to each keyboard key. I'd
lose a few keys - this keyboard has 95 keys (unless I miscounted just
now), so I'd end up losing 7, at least. I suspect I'd be better off
with some kind of chord setup; reaching the whole keyboard for a
key-for-key mapping would be a substantial slowdown. My hands can each
span a little over an octave; an octave gives me 13 keys within easy
reach of each hand. Not all 2^13 combinations are easy to play, by any
stretch, but I'm sure it wouldn't be that difficult to find a set of
chords which could correspond to keys (or characters; I'm not sure
whether I'd rather play keys or characters). And then there are the
pedals as well....
As for speed...I don't think about individual keystrokes when typing
normally as it is. With a bit of practice I'd expect most of the skill
to move down into muscle memory the way my current typing has.
Some one of these years :( I'll have to experiment. It'd be
interesting to see if I can develop a mapping for which I can reach
speeds anywhere near my QWERTY speeds.
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