Kitara
Building a program converts any MIDI guitar into a customizable computer keyboard
![Kitara](/content/images/size/w2000/2021/08/image--1-.png)
After putting up the Christmas tree early with the kids, I spent a few hours this Sunday afternoon on another geeky techno-music experiment: building a program converts any MIDI guitar into a customizable computer keyboard.
Although getting this to work coding-wise was not difficult, the hard part was figuring out how to map a guitar to a keyboard. After many tries I found the right way: split the keyboard and flip the left side upside down. At that point it becomes a regular QWERTY keyboard and I started typing immediately and with almost no practice.
![](https://georgetheka.com/content/images/2021/08/image.png)
The code and the mapping are available here: https://github.com/georgetheka/kitara