The Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro is either the best feature to come to the laptop in years or the most gimmicky, depending on where you stand. (Glowing reviews aside, I stand by my assessment that it looks like an ergonomic nightmare.)
It's easy to add a new track, of course, so this one is a bit more for vanity than the others. Yes, adding a new audio, midi, or return track is a bit faster with keyboard shortcuts, but this demonstrates the power of the Touch Bar's menu diving & macro's as it will snap back to the 'main menu' after one of the options is selected. Dec 11, 2016 Touch Bar Piano. Is the ability to play piano on the Touch Bar of the pricey new MacBook Pro enough to justify its cost or the existence of the Touch Bar itself? Almost certainly not. Touch Pianist is a musical toy / instrument that allows the user to perform hard-to-play classical piano music favorites (from composers like Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Satie, Debussy to name a few) just by tapping the rhythm of the piece's particular sound events on a computer keyboard or a touch screen.
Dec 09, 2016 The 'Touch Bar Piano' app is designed to turn the Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro into a little tiny touch-based piano that can be used to make music. Available on Parks' website, Touch Bar. Touch Bar Piano. Keep it classy, just don’t play Heart and Soul on your Touch Bar. Anything but Heart and Soul. Subscribe to our newsletter! Upgrade your life, one email at a time.
But that hasn't stopped creative developers from finding new uses for the Touch Bar. Now, one developer has made a new music app that turns the Touch Bar into what might be the world's tiniest piano.
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Called Touch Bar Piano, the free app turns the Touch Bar into a tiny, but fully playable, piano. It's even possible to pick out individual keys well enough to play a song.
If piano isn't your thing, the app includes 127 other instruments, including stringed instruments and choir sounds.
Check it out in action in the video below.
Unfortunately, the app is more of a 'toy' for now, says developer Graham Parks, so you can't record what you play or do much else. But Parks says he's open to doing more with the app that he says he 'hacked together' in a couple hours.
'If there's interest, I'd love to make it interface with other music apps as a controller,' Parks wrote in an email to Mashable.
You can check out the app on Parks' website. If you don't have a new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, though, you're out of luck.
'It does nothing useful on other Macs,' according to Parks.
h/t: Engadget
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Apple announced its new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar about a month ago. The new notebook is already available for purchase. The Touch Bar is its most unique aspect and Apple has opened it up to developers so that they can leverage the multi-touch display’s functionality to build great experiences. One such app makes the new MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar double as a miniature piano.
Macbook Pro Touch Bar Piano
Developer Graham Parks has created this small app that turns the Touch Bar into a miniature piano. Those who own this notebook can easily play it using the Touch Bar. All they need to do is tap on the polyphonic keyboard’s keys to play. It’s that simple.
The app – called Touch Bar Piano – also allows users to pick various instrument voicings enabling them to switch between an acoustic grand piano and an electric. There are even xylophone and synth violin configurations.
Touch Bar Piano is available as a free download for the new MacBook Pro via the utsire website. It’s an unsigned app so users will have to deal with the Gatekeeper prompts before the app can be installed.
It looks like the app relies on the GarageBand sound library to actually generate the music. The app itself just lets users tap on the keys using the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro.
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