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Re:WASM SYNTH, or, how music taught me the beauty of math by moron4hire on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @04:35PM (#27282280)
Umh, why don't the F or H keys work?
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Re:WASM SYNTH, or, how music taught me the beauty of math by errozero on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @04:49PM (#27282443)
Because of the mapping of the typing keyboard to musical notes. F would represent E# which doesn't exist on a piano. H should work though. I found a pic that explains the keyboard layout better than I could:

https://sourceforge.net/p/vmpk/shared-keymaps-and-instrument...

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Re:WASM SYNTH, or, how music taught me the beauty of math by moron4hire on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @09:13PM (#27284936)
Okay, that makes a lot more sense. I wasn't able to figure that out by just hitting the keys.
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