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The new Makey Makey Apps are the culmination of years of learning and play at JoyLabz. We took our tried-and-true piano app that was created when Makey Makey was first introduced, and we took it up a level alongside a number of new apps that we have created from the ground up. The new apps all have a number of cool fea

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https://apps.makeymakey.com/bongos/

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https://www.instructables.com/Musical-Water-With-Soundplant/

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Soundplant turns your computer keyboard into a versatile, low latency sound trigger and playable instrument.

Via drag & drop, easily assign sound files of any format and length onto 88 keyboard keys, creating custom soundboards that put hours of instantly-playing audio at your fingertips with no extra hardware needed (or use MIDI if you like).

Soundplant is used for live music and sound effects, as a drum pad, as a unique electronic instrument, as an educational aid, and just for fun - in theater, radio, film, podcasting, streaming, presentations, studios, stadiums, classrooms, clubs, museums, and churches - by DJs, musicians, engineers, sound designers, composers, artists, gamers, teachers, magicians, puppeteers, comedians, public speakers, and more.

send bug reports, questions, suggestions, and all other Soundplant related correspondence to soundplant [at] soundplant.org

Soundplant® © 1999-2023 Marcel Blum/Soundplant.org

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Soundplant: computer keyboard sample triggering for Windows & Mac

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turn your computer keyboard into a playable instrument and versatile sound trigger

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Classrooms are going bananas for Makey Makey! Check out these great cross-curricular projects on Instructables made by teachers like you!

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https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/416659519/

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To play a long with !!!!

https://nyumusedlab.github.io/cmsdpiano/

Use your new piano making skills and connect your makey makey and join in with this clever little app. a youtube video overlaid with musical notes that you can control with your makey makey.

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Music composed and performed by Steve Wogaman ... and YOU!
Designed by @alexruthmann at the NYU Steinhardt Music Experience Design Lab. HTML 5 web audio code adapted from Yotam Mann.

MaKey MaKey users: you can play 10 different piano notes, using w, a, s, d, f, left, up, right, down and space.

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Virtual Chamber Music - Pentatonic Piano Duet

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We've got new apps! Learn more about each app in this blog post. To celebrate the launch of our new Craft + Code Booster Kit and Get Up + Go Booster Kit, we have also launched new apps that will let you have a full plug-and-play Makey Makey experience!

Legacy and Community Apps

Bongos: Play some bongo drums with the space bar and left arrow. Turn anything into a drum!

Piano
A piano designed for Makey Makey. Play a melody with the arrow keys and space bar (and click, too).

MK-1
A sampling synth made by Eric Rosenbaum for Makey Makey. Record your own sound, use preset scales, and set the keys to play just the notes you want.
Makey Makey Music Sampler
We know that kids (and adults!) love our piano and bongo app. So we wanted to make a sampler to get more kids interested in sound engineering and using digital audio workstations like Garageband and Ableton.

Scratch Piano
This is a piano you can play with the arrow keys. It was created using Scratch, an easy-to-use graphical programming language, so you can remix it and make your own version.

Patatap
Patatap is a portable animation and sound kit. This app works with all the letter keys, so you'll have to use the back of your Makey Makey or remap the arrow keys to use with this app. Warning: contains flashing images.

Makey Makey Midi Player

Thisawesomemidi app was created by Makey Makey Ambassador Liam Baum (aka MrBombMusic.) He built this app with p5.js & Soundfont-Player. Plug in your Makey Makey, and choose an instrument from the dropdown and begin playing a full scale with the instrument of your choice! (Note: you will need to remap a few pins on the back of the board for keys h and j.)

Virtual Musical Makey Makey
This app was created by Johnny Tal as a way to easily upload any sound you want for any input, or choose an instrument from the list and easily monitor what's being triggered on the virtual Makey Makey.

Dot Piano
Dot Piano is a visual musical instrument that lives on the web. Use your computer keys or MIDI keyboard to record a song, then share it simply by sending a link. To use with Makey Makey, use WASDFG on the back of your board or reprogram your arrow keys to letter key presses.
Piano Genie
Another great piano app! Click the Settings wheel to change the piano keys to Makey Makey keypresses and start playing!

Sound Effects
This page turns your keyboard into a sound effects machine. By connecting to the letters on the back of your Makey Makey, you can create your own way to trigger sounds. (Flash Player is no longer supported)

Chamber Music Piano
You can play 10 different notes on this piano (using w, a, s, d, f, left, up, right, down and space). Play along with the video for a piano duet!

Soundplant

This downloadable app is great if you just want to drag and drop sounds onto keys on a keyboard, then press the keys to play them. Try it with the example keymap we made with drum and marimba sounds for macor windows.
Makey Makey OneClick Drum

1 Button Piano Makey Makey Harp

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Wanna plug Makey Makey in and start playing and connecting everyday stuff with no coding involved? Check out these apps that use key presses. When you are ready to start making your own apps and games, head on over to Scratch to code your own projects!

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CANABALT

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Escape the destruction of your city with just one button! The game that popularized the infinite runner genre is back with two-player mode, new challenges, new music, new achievements, and new leaderboards!

Canabalt is available now on these fine videogame platforms:

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Game by Adam Saltsman Music by Danny Baranowsky Haxe/HTML5 Port by Cameron Taylor Website by Jonah Davidson Canabalt® © Finji, LLC. 2009-2024 . All rights reserved. Canabalt®, Finji® and regal weasel and crown logo are trademarks of Finji, LLC. “Run!” and “Daring Escape” © Danny Baranowsky. 2009-2024.

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Consortium for Innovation and Transformation in Music Education (CITME)

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Curated resources for using a Makey Makey for musical engagement, learning, and teaching.

The Makey Makey is a device which enables you to create a "controller" or "triggering device" out of any electrically conductive material including metal, fruit, water, etc. It works by completing an electrical circuit through the conductive material, thus triggering whatever action you predetermine via software. The controllers you create with the Makey Makey can be used to play video games, create music, or any number of other applications available by re-coding its Arduino based software.

Get inspired by the Makey Makey project gallery. Additional examples below.

1. Wires/alligator clips for connecting objects to act as triggering devices (up to 10)

2. Conductive objects such as (people, fruits & vegetables, copper tape, soft graphite etc.)

3. Mini USB Cable

4. Laptop with USB Input

5. An application that lets you assign sounds/music to computer keys (i.e. Soundplant, Scratch or Ableton Live)

How do I set up the Makey Makey to make music?

It's up to you whether you would rather start with creating some musical content or with connecting objects to the Makey Makey. Either way, you'll need both steps to use the Makey Makey to make music:

Connect Objects to the Makey Makey to Trigger Keys

To use the top part of the Makey Makey (Space bar and arrow keys) you can use alligator clips

Photo adapted from original photo by jayahimsa via Flckr

To use the bottom part of the Makey Makey (letter keys and more) you will need wire such as jumper wires (you can find them at many online vendors including Amazon, SparkFun, AdaFruit etc.)

Photo by jayahimsa via Flickr

Very basic set up to get started (from Makey Makey)

A more in-depth setup guide with explanations (from SparkFun)

Watch this video on setting up the Makey Makey (start at 1:00 for a focus on set up)

Watch this basic explanation of how the Makey Makey works with completing a circuit

Connecting a Music Application to Makey Makey

Once the Makey Makey is set up you can use it to trigger the letter, arrow, and space bar keys, you will need to set up a music application to connect the letter key with sound or musical content.

Very Basic: Web-based Apps

The following web-based apps simply require you to plug in the Makey Makey and access the dedicated site to make music immediately:
Makey Makey Bongos Makey Makey Piano Makey Makey MK-1 Sampling Keyboard Chamber Music Piano with Accompaniment
Sampulator (you can access some of the sounds)

Basic: Using SoundPlant

Soundplant turns your computer keyboard into a versatile, low latency sound trigger and playable instrument. Via drag-and-drop, easily assign sound files of any format and length onto 72 keyboard keys, creating custom soundboards that put hours of instantly-playing audio at your fingertips with no extra hardware needed. . . Soundplant was designed to do one thing and do it well: to trigger sounds from the computer keyboard with maximum speed, efficiency, and ease of use.

A detailed explanation of how to use Soundplant with a Makey Makey:

Basic: Using Scratch

Once you have the Makey Makey set up to send the key letters to the computer, all you have to do is open and run a scratch instrument to make it work.

It is as easy as:

1. Set up your Makey Makey (resources above)

2. Open a scratch instrument (resources below)

3. Run the scratch instrument (click the green arrow to start or green flag if you were "seeing inside" with the code)

Have fun playing the Scratch instrument with the Makey Makey!

Need additional information about the Scratch instrument?

Check out the "instructions" area of the scratch environment in the top right corner.

Curious about how the Scratch instrument is built?

Click the "See inside" button to see the code and play around with it.

Learn more about how to make music with Scratch here.

Read about Cheryl Burgemeister's experience addressing STEAM by using Makey Makey with Scratch to create a MIDI instrument.

Some Scratch Instruments

Studio for Makey Makey Scratch Instruments

More Advanced: Using Ableton Live

Suggestions for using Makey Makey with Ableton Live

The following clip is very clear and outlines how the Makey Makey works and how to set it up from 0:00 - 4:48

At 4:48 the video demonstrates how to use keyboard mapping function of Ableton to map Ableton to computer keyboard letters, which the Makey Makey could trigger.

To learn more about some of the specific aspects addressed in the above tutorial, see the following video:

From 0:56 - 3:00 = information on key mapping and issues you might encounter

How to insert MIDi effects randomizer

NOTE: Make sure you make a midi clip in a blank cell by double clicking

2:33 - 8:16 = how to work with the MIDI scale effect (the example is if you are creating music with the piano roll editor but the concept still applies for using with a Makey Makey)

8:20 = discussion of the random MIDI effect

NOTE:

In this video, the person creates a pattern in the MIDI clip

If you want the Makey Makey to trigger a pattern being played use this approach

If you want the person playing the Makey Makey to create their own rhythms/content include one short or long duration in the MIDI clip rather than an entire pre-set pattern

Find out what else you can do with the Makey Makey!
Visit our going further with Makey Makey and Music site.

Guides of group projects with Makey Makey

A video providing samples of music and Makey Makey Projects

Development of an interactive soundboard with pitches per board for people to play a melody:

A tutorial for making a conductive ink sampler

Create an arcade button MIDI controller with the Makey Makey
Augment an existing instrument with a Makey Makey
Tutorials for cardboard instruments with Makey Makey - from Conductive Music

Check out our database of DIY Music Projects for more ideas.

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Makey Makey - Consortium for Innovation and Transformation in Music Education (CITME)

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Curated resources for using a Makey Makey for musical engagement, learning, and teaching. What is the Makey Makey? The Makey Makey is a device which enables you to create a "controller" or "triggering device" out of any electrically conductive material including metal, fruit, water, etc.

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Connect wires to each of the outputs on the Makey Makey (up, down, left , right, space)

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Have some fun pretending you're a piano virtuoso using machine learning!

Use the 1-8 numbered keys on your keyboard (or the home row a-f and j-;) or touch the coloured blocks to play the piano. Use the space bar to control the sustain pedal. The more you pretend you're a real player, the better the melody (and you!) will sound.

This works best if your phone is rotated in landscape mode.

Built with magenta.js. Learn more about how it works, or see the code on Glitch.

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Have some fun pretending you're a piano virtuoso using machine learning! Use the 1-8 numbered keys on your keyboard (or the home row a-f and j-;) or touch the coloured blocks to play the piano. Use the space bar to control the sustain pedal.

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https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/91870345/