Virtual Keyboard Musical Instrument
Amice Golden
Use your computer keyboard or click the piano keys to play the piano. The keyboard's top row of letters corresponds to the white keys, and the row of numbers corresponds to the black keys. You can play multiple notes simultaneously.
Click "Hide note names" above the piano to hide the note names. Click "Mark" to mark notes on the piano. Play the marked notes by clicking the "Play" button (only visible after notes have been marked) or pressing the spacebar on your keyboard.
Try our free piano exercises and learn to play notes, intervals, chords, and scales on the piano. You'll also find a variety of other exercises that will expand your musical understanding and help you become better at playing the piano.
Velvet is a virtual electronic piano that combines five legendary electric pianos from the 60s and 70s into one versatile instrument. Based on the Fender Rhodes Suitcase, Fender Rhodes MK I and MK II Stage Pianos, Wurlitzer 200A and Hohner Pianet-T, Velvet accurately emulates the sound quality, response, and nuances of each original instrument to bring your piano tracks to life. Additionally, Velvet features a pallet of onboard effects and allows you to control every aspect of the sound for unparalleled realism: turn up the tube drive controls in the preamp section to warm up your tone; adjust the timbre, dynamic response, and velocity curve to customize the playing feel; and mix in the sound of pedal and other keyboard mechanical noises to recreate an authentic electric piano track.
Using proprietary dynamic modeling, a unique combination of optimized sampling and modeling techniques, Velvet is capable of producing highly realistic recreations of classic electric piano sounds with superior fidelity and dynamic response. Additionally, Velvet features the revolutionary Vintage Mode that allows you to tap into the timeless sounds heard on countless classic recordings. Vintage Mode intelligently tweaks the timbre setting to readjust the sonic character of Velvet to match these electric pianos from the past. With the Vintage Mode, you can sound just like your favorite electric piano players.
Velvet features a built-in preamp and an array of effects to add crunch, ambience, or tremolo to your electric piano track. Its powerful preamp section includes tube overdrive, compression, and a custom 3-band EQ with a parametric mid band to shape your sound. Process your sound further using a wide range of distortion, wah/filter, chorus, flanger, phaser, and tape delay effects to emulate a vintage sound or forge something new. The Ambience, Spring, and Room reverbs can add an expansive ambience to create otherworldly effects, or a small room reverb to add a bit of color to your performance. You can also add tremolo and autopan effects; the former is modeled after those on the original electric pianos.
Velvet includes 350+ professional presets meticulously programmed by AIR Music Technology's sound designers that make it easy to call up authentic electric piano sounds. You can even create your own unique presets by dialing into Velvet's powerful controls. The graphic user interface is reminiscent of vintage electric pianos, and its controls are modeled after the originals, allowing you to easily modify sounds at the twist of a knob or notch of a slider.
Use your computer mouse or keyboard to play the virtual piano keyboard (or the device touch screen for mobile devices). You can view the corresponding computer keyboard letters by activating the Real Keys feature. For the entire keyboard spectrum, click it twice.
Metronome The Metronome feature enables you to play at a regular tempo. Use it to improve your timing.
You can adjust the Metronome based on BPM (beats per minute) or time signature.
A virtual piano keyboard is perfect when there isn't a real piano or a keyboard at home or when your piano or keyboard isn't next to a computer. The online piano keyboard simulates a real piano keyboard with 7 1/4 octaves of 88 keys (only five octaves for mobile devices), a sustain pedal, ABC or DoReMe letter notes representation, a Metronome, zoom-in, and a full-screen mode.
Use your computer mouse or keyboard to play the virtual piano keyboard (or the device touch screen for mobile devices). You can view the corresponding computer keyboard letters by activating the "Real Keys" feature. For the entire keyboard spectrum, click it twice.
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Every physical computer keyboard allows you to play notes from two octaves between C3 to C5.The white keys are mapped to the second row of keys: Tab, Q, ..., [, ] and Backslash.The black keys are mapped to the first row of keys: 1, 2, ..., =, Backspace.For example, C3 is played by pressing Tab while C#3 is played by pressing 1 and D3 is played by pressing Q and so on.Note that B4 is played by pressing the backslash key, while the Enter key plays C5.
If you have an external keyboard with a navigation cluster and a numeric keypad,then you can play three octaves from C3 to C6.The Delete key will play C5, Home - C#5, End - D5 and so on to 7 on the numpad being F5 and so on.
The keys from the row A,S,D and the row Z,X,C are programmed to play white key chords for rich melodies.Moreover, with advanced options you can assign any user-defined chord or single note to any key of the computer keyboard.Tick the CHORD checkbox to indicate a chord on the piano keyboard and then check it off to create a custom-made chord button.This button will play your chord but it can also be configured to be associated with a computer keyboard key.
You can record anything played by this virtual piano keyboard and play it back at will.To start and stop recording check and uncheck the box RECORD. A playback button will appear automatically.You can have many playback buttons: each with its own recording. You can even play back more than one recording at the same time while making another recording to combine them.
Please donate if you find this feature useful.I had to buy a more expensive hosting service to be able to run the script which generates MIDI files.And generally I struggle to find the time to work on my virtual pianobecause the website brings so little money that I need to focus all my efforts on my job just to survive financially.
Your recordings and your custom chords are stored as buttons which can be dragged around to shift position.You can save all your buttons as a text file to your hard drive and then load this file later.Each button can be renamed and configured to be triggered by any key from the computer keyboard.You can program your computer keyboard so that each key plays a custom chord or a playback recording and then save the layout for later.
This is an online piano in the sense that it needs a live Internet connection to work.But there is an offline version available as a single HTML file that you can open in your browser without being connected to the Internet.Note that the offline version does not have certain features which require a connection.It won't save your work and you can't download audio files of your recordings.The better sound quality option is not available.You can use it offline for private personal use including in a school classroom or in a private class.Contact me directly if you are interested.
Load better soundsThe default sound files are optimized for speed of loading so that you can start playing the piano immediately without waiting for the sounds to load.However, this comes at the cost of reduced quality, which may be an issue when using external loudspeakers or headphones.Fortunately, you can optionally load better sounds if you need higher sound quality.
You might also be interested in my virtual guitarthat plays all the major chords, minor chords, and dominant sevenths chords. In fact, it can play any chords at all.But more importantly, the notes on the fretboard are visualized on a separate virtual piano keyboard which serves to explain how the guitar worksto those who already understand the piano.
I have the ambition to make it the most useful virtual piano online simulator in the world so I need to know what exactly my users expect when they play it.Please feel free to write any comments and remarks by using the email address displayed on theApronus.com homepage.
Is it hard to master playing keyboards on a screen? I was wondering cause there are so many stand-alone virtual MIDI controllers on the App Store, and so many apps include keyboards, but judging from YT performances and discussions it seems no one actually uses them, at least not for playing melodic phrases. Owning a physical MIDI controller is almost assumed. I've looked up KB-1 videos and the performers usually just use them for sustained chords and arpeggios.
On the other hand, I've seen absolute virtuoso playing on instruments like the Ableton Push. Does having physical keys/buttons (even if they're unconventional) really make that much of a difference vs. tapping on a screen?
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