Kitara

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.

The code and the mapping are available here: https://github.com/georgetheka/kitara