Playing the Keyboard

The keyboard panel gives you a touch-responsive piano you can play directly on screen — useful for identifying notes by ear while transcribing.

Touch and Multi-Touch

• Tap any key to play that note
• Touch multiple keys simultaneously to play chords — the keyboard supports multi-touch polyphony with as many simultaneous touches as the device supports
• Keys highlight in orange when pressed (50% opacity on white keys, 100% on black keys)
• Sliding between keys ends the previous note and starts the new one

10-Octave Range

NoteHound’s keyboard spans the full musical range from C0 to C8 — ten octaves. Since only a portion fits on screen at once, you can navigate the range in two ways:

• Swipe left or right on the keyboard to scroll smoothly through octaves
• Use the octave scrollbar at the bottom of the keyboard panel for quick jumps to any position — the orange indicator shows your current position

Key Size

The minimum key width is 44pt for comfortable touch targeting. Use the zoom presets to control how many octaves are visible at once.

Resizable Height

The keyboard panel height can be adjusted to give you more or less screen space:

• Drag the handle at the top edge of the keyboard panel up or down
• A taller keyboard makes individual keys easier to hit; a shorter one leaves more room for the piano roll

Linked to Piano Roll

Every key you press is also reflected in the piano roll and fretboard — the corresponding note lights up in both views. This makes the keyboard a useful tool for checking your ear against what you’ve already transcribed.

Tip: To add notes to the piano roll by tapping keys, switch to Edit Mode.