12/03/2011

Chirp Virtual Midi Keyboard Controller Review

Chirp Virtual Midi Keyboard Controller
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I have been looking for a little keyboard application for a while and found Chirp after seeing their ad in electronic musician. Chirp is a nice little keyboard! I am really impressed. I'm running it on a intel MacBook Pro with Leopard and its fast. almost no delay. The manual is first class, better than a lot of $300 programs I have. It has instructions on using it with what looks like every popular music software application I was glad to see Reason was covered which is what I use. Others will probably find this useful as well.

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Chirp turns your computer or laptop keyboard into a virtual MIDI keyboard controller with 18 piano keys, 10 drum triggers and all the control you'd expect from a piece of hardware. The program produces no actual "sound" itself; instead it produces MIDI notes and messages, which in turn "drive" any music software application, MIDI instrument or plug in soft synthesizer capable of generating sound from MIDI input. Many music software applications and soft synths include some virtual keyboard capability, but very few allow the MIDI notes to be generated using your computer keyboard. Many limit input to a mouse click, which makes chord entry and real-time playing virtually impossible. Chirp accommodates up to 7 notes on the keyboard to be played simultaneously and in real-time, allowing for even complex 9/11/13 chord entry over 2 octaves. Chirp was designed to be a low latency controller capable of both supply MIDI notes and displaying played notes from any music application with MIDI I/O capabilities. We envisioned the primary computer platform as a Windows or Mac laptop, and most likely in a remote environment where the use of a physical keyboard is impractical, such as an airplane seat, bus seat (or even your desk at work!) Chirp Features ...16 Channel Virtual MIDI Input/Output Port (installs via driver on Windows or Mac and appears in any MIDI music host application), Piano Keyboard and Trigger Pads assignable to different MIDI Channels, 18 to 21 notes mapped to computer keyboard keys for generating MIDI data with assignable velocities, 18 to 21 on-screen keys to display incoming MIDI note data, note velocity controlled by graphical slide or preset values assigned to top row number keys, graphical octave control allows access to all 127 defined MIDI notes, 10 trigger pads assignable to any MIDI event (on a different channel than the keyboard keys), and ability to send note data even when Chirp is not the focused application.

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