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 Jake T.  (Vampeyer )
Jake T. (Vampeyer )

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ISO Proposal Standards for Music Sheet Notes , to Keyboard mappings, using the 88- standard key layout.

Music Sheet for Standard 88-Keys for piano

--- My name is also Jacob R. Thompson so i will be calling this the
Thompson Audio Mapping Format ,
or the Thompson - " your name here " Audio format ,

I dont care , and-

as I am looking for possible input from others and hopefully - ---collaboration , just in voting on the matters.

Hello there , this is Vampeyer. Good afternoon.
I am building a piano in JS , and I wanted to be as musically accurate as possible to do things
like write and read music and maybe even create some standards and layouts , to build Ai audio in the future that could do things like ,

  • Read a standardized music sheet of 88 - standard keys

  • Properly write these keys , to an agreed upon file format (JSON) ,
    and set up a structure for giving them ID's of sorts , to reference, in data.

  • Implement proper CRUD operations for standardized data in files and sheets for composition ,
    and composition tools. ( That's Create Read , Update and Delete operations , the basic building blocks. )

  • So we can all write and read each others music properly online and possibly play other or new instruments.

  • And Therefore, in the future we would even then have the ability too do more things like ,

  • Convert a song, or a said audio file into a different classical musical
    instrument.

    • Translate and convert a song, or a said audio file into a different classical musical instruments to play them for a particular piece of said music , and even be able to do it
  • Autonomously.

  • Does that sound like something that may be interesting too you ?

If so ,

..... Lets begin then shall we ?

--- the first step is for us to both acquire and standardize a type of music sheet , to see what we are working with.
so that we can map it to the keyboard

  • Luckily , My starter repo had a great detail of the 88 standard keys on a keyboard

I have done my research and , the
Classical Piano Keyboard Structure does, contain


The second reference above , speaks of other numbers of keys and modifications for
other sizes. -- Now , due to the fact that me and the rest of the professional community ,
finds beings able to compose full pieces to be a requirement. Therefore , we will be suggesting
the 88- key standard for portability puroposes.

Here is another ,
virtual piano keyboard structure - for the A23 virtual piano -
@ - https://recursivearts.com/virtual-piano/

  • this working unity model for a piano contains
  • 36 regular keys , plus 25 sharpened keys , equaling to 61 keys , as a 61-key standard.

Now , what to do next ? - we have a working example here , on the working unity model for some basic
keyboard following structures.

https://recursivearts.com/virtual-piano/ ( Same URL as above )

-- On the piano there , you may see s key switch available for both
Real and Full modes. That of which are both attempts at
mapping keys to the keyboard.

using a medium , more minimal set of keys for a basic layout. starting with 1
and ending with > or something.

and then a full set with the same range but htings like shift + 1 and shift + 2 for seperate note keytones.

- On a full 61 keyboard layout.

Again , one more time , if you are not sure of what I am describing above , you may visit that URL on a
computer , and when using the virtual keyboard , you can adjust those real and full settings there to see
again , a potential layout structure for the keyboard , of all in which maps 61 keys ,

----- And as a professional grade developer , I must say , that is a mapping implementation
that simply must be updated and standardized ,
+for the betterment of reading and writing data n a musical composition.

I say that some easy standard mapping method for use on the KEYBOARD is what we need first.


-- Okay here we go , so this is my proposal for a new
88-standard notes - to - keyboard mapping architecture

( Which, we can talk about modifying it as well as long as you give me credit too !

  • The point of this is that we come up with a method together that is BEST usable . )


Firstly , a New - Keyboard proposal structure for the mapping of

the 88 standard keys ,is simply More Structurally and functionally useful if and when those notes themselves are - based off of the keyboard, the hardware being considered here. .

  • Finding that there are not enough keys on the keyboard to make 88 keys , but there are enough keys to make 44 , So ,

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  • I will be mapping them to keys , twice , once for 44 mapped keys on a top set
    and 44 keys on a bottom set.

  • and it will just switch on caps lock , that's it.

  • But im trying to make a format around it for multiple instruments , in a way that others can make the same way.

  • So thats just simply how I am mapping it for usability,
    thats the meat and potatoes of it.
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  • doing this method is superior because all of the keys can be accessed much more easily , and stored in a much more organized fashion.

accessed as well as then , even there could even be a USB upgrade for two keyboards ,
-- As to which if one wanted to map all 88 of the keys simultaneously, this could be possible with a hardware
driver upgrade. And one could essentially turn two keyboards into any possible instrument with a 88- key standard tuning.

  • This is also a superior method because it can then standardize the proces as to where ,engineers could
    actually just take two keyboards and then turn them into any type of muscial instrument.

  • Then thereby , being able to create an elegant orchestra of sound and audio by first,
    accomplishing a few key features such as ,

    • Being able to quickly and easily reach the standard 88- keys at a time on a with a single keyboard , with a full 44 key , high and low style switch over. ( As too keep playing in sync as well. )

-Being able to reach all of the standard 88- at once on two keyboards, if the keys were then mapped
on the application layer properly.

Is what I am working on at the moment.

  • Will update later as I work on it. - 06 / 09 / 2024 Until then - Jeers for Cheers

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Hey Jake! If you want your post to be useful, and if you want a good reputation on Dev.to, you might want to add some text to it. 😀