OrthoPlay
$480.00
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OrthoPlay
$480.00
OrthoPlay MIDI Music Mechanical Keyboard
A compact lightweight 5 × 12 grid
Every keycap is colored like a piano: white keycaps are the notes of the C major scale, and black keycaps are the sharps and flats. No note names to memorize, the scale is laid out for you.
It’s a mechanical keyboard, too
OrthoPlay isn’t only a MIDI controller - it’s a full mechanical keyboard as well. The same 5 × 12 grid types as a compact ortholinear QWERTY layout, so you can write and produce on one board.
- Press TO(M) to switch to the music layer.
- Press TO(K) to switch back to the keyboard layer.
How it’s laid out
- 5 rows × 12 pads - one chromatic octave across each row.
- Each pad to the right is one semitone higher.
- Rows are tuned a perfect fourth apart, like the strings of a bass: the bottom row starts on E, then A, D, G above it.
- Move up two rows and right two pads to land an octave higher.
The note map
| G | G# | A | A# | B | C | C# | D | D# | E | F | F# |
| D | D# | E | F | F# | G | G# | A | A# | B | C | C# |
| A | A# | B | C | C# | D | D# | E | F | F# | G | G# |
| E | F | F# | G | G# | A | A# | B | C | C# | D | D# |
Black keycaps are black keys (sharps and flats); white keycaps are white keys.
Top control row
The black strip along the top holds the performance controls, which can be modified in VIAL
| 1 | Sustain pedal |
| 2 | Octave down |
| 3 | Octave up |
| 4 | Program change down |
| 5 | Program change up |
What’s included
- Keyboard with DSA Keycaps
- Type C Cable