Creative use of an external MIDI keyboard
One of the new features of
Pizzicato Professional 3 is the virtual keyboard. Its purpose is
to extend the playing possibilities of a single musical keyboard
and let you play several instruments on one keyboard. This
principle is frequent in a lot of synthetizers and it is often
called "performance". It is a set of sounds programmed
on the keyboard that can be used to play. A virtual keyboard is a musical
object that can contain several instruments. It gets its data
from a musical keyboard connected to a MIDI input port. If you do
not have a musical keyboard connected to your computer, you can
nevertheless use a virtual keyboard but in a more limited way
because using the mouse is not easy to play on a keyboard drawn
on the screen. The virtual keyboards let you
setup a MIDI musical keyboard connected to the computer to play
various prepared instruments. You can for example play chords
that are then held while you play a bass whose notes are doubled
by a vibraphone 3 octaves higher for example. Another area lets
you play a melody, doubled by an oboe. All of this while having
some keys reserved for percussions. The whole set is played from
one keyboard only, as you program it. To prepare and use a virtual
keyboard with Pizzicato 3 (even in demonstration mode), see the
page http://www.arpegemusic.com/manual30/EN830.htm