Beginners guide?

[Grzes]

Hi all,

I was looking for an alternative way of composing music and I found
KeyKit.
The possibilities here are endless and this is fascinating, but I come
from the Cubase-like world of sequencers and this is a new approach
and I'm totally lost.

I already began by the tutorial in the \doc\ folder but there is no
step by step how to things telling you how to perform some simple
actions like recording, arranging, live transformation, tips and
tricks, and so on... (I'm not talking about programming new tools).

I also googled for some hours now without success...

Is there something I missed?

I really would like to use keykit but I don't know how to begin.

Thanks for your help

grzes

[Tim Thompson]

The possibilities here are endless and this is fascinating, but I come
from the Cubase-like world of sequencers and this is a new approach
and I'm totally lost.

.... 

Is there something I missed?

Probably not.  KeyKit is uniquely capable but under-documented, and while it's possible to do quite a bit without writing any code, its target audience is someone who has a software developer's mindset and can write bits of code.  Things like the FAQ at http://nosuch.com/keykit/faq.html and searching the mail archives at http://nosuch.com/keykit/mailsearch.html may help a little, but if you've read the tutorial (thank you) and played around with it for a bit, you've given it your best shot. 

    ...Tim...

[Grzes]

Thank you Tim.
After few days of search in the lib folder and deeper walking through
the help section (and your help) I realized how really powerfull
KeyKit is with some coding skills.

From what I seen there is no a unique way of producing midi output.
There are few examples of "songs" in the lib folder.
Someone can read midi files and assamble them in some ways, others can
produce randomly generated notes and lenghts...

May some of you, KeyKit musicians, post your song codes (or extracts)
as an exemple to show to young people like me how you organize your
song structure, how you handle all of those phrases or realtime events
from midi controllers.
I know that many functions are described in the help section but
everything comes clearer when all of this is put together in a whole
thing.

Thanks,

Grzes
(sorry for the language, I'm not english native)

[Tim Thompson]

May some of you, KeyKit musicians, post your song codes (or extracts)
as an exemple to show to young people like me how you organize your

I forgot about these pages, which may help you see how things can be put together:

     http://nosuch.com/keykit/notes/note1.html

     http://nosuch.com/dtf/

   ...Tim...

[A]

Having recently discovered the program, I found this video demonstration to be very helpful in getting started with the "non-programming side" of KeyKit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c-O57J9W-E

Despite the video being from 1994, everything in it still seems valid for the latest version (7.7b).

How to use the GUI and some of the tools are explained and it could be considered a "Beginners' guide" of sorts, just in video instead of text.

I realize I'm answering an old question and that Grzes is probably a seasoned KeyKit veteran by now but just wanted to say this anyway as others may be wondering the same thing.

Lastly I want to say a huge thanks to Mr. Thompson for this wonderful piece of software. It really makes my Casio sing!

[Tim Thompson]

Having recently discovered the program, I found this video demonstration to be very helpful in getting started with the "non-programming side" of KeyKit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c-O57J9W-E
Despite the video being from 1994, everything in it still seems valid for the latest version (7.7b).

Thanks for pointing that out.  There's another video presentation on KeyKit from 2002 that may be interesting/useful as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL9dQXE4Ol4   It focuses more on the programming side, but also provides examples of what I've done with it.  There's a third video from 2003 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz2sYusLn1k - which is geekier-still, but the audio is pretty poor on that one.

 

Lastly I want to say a huge thanks to Mr. Thompson for this wonderful piece of software. It really makes my Casio sing!

Delighted to hear it, you're very welcome, thanks for enjoying it.

    ...Tim...