Play MIDI notes on your Mac

MidiKeys is a great, free Mac program, that belongs to the category Audio & Video with subcategory Midi.

More about MidiKeys

Its current version is 1.7 and was updated on 1/20/2006. It’s available for users with the operating system Mac OS X and prior versions, and it is available in English.

MidiKeys is a relatively light program that doesn’t need as much storage space than the average program in the category Audio & Video. It’s a program mostly downloaded in Japan, Portugal, and Switzerland.

Since the program joined our selection of programs and apps in 2006, it has obtained 12,572 downloads, and last week it gained 8 downloads.

MidiKeys is a small application for Mac OS X that presents a miniature MIDI keyboard onscreen. You can use the computer keyboard to play MIDI notes, or click on the keys with the mouse. There is also an option to select a MIDI source and see incoming notes played on the keyboard.

The keys ‘z’ through ‘,’ is the octave starting a middle C (note 60). The keys on the row above are flats, and the octave below is on the row starting with ‘q’ (and the digit row is that octave’s flats).

In order to hear a sound when you press keys, you need to connect the MidiKeys output to a synthesizer of some sort. This can be either a softsynth like SimpleSynth or a hardware synth connected through a MIDI I/O box. MidiKeys has no way to produce sound on its own.