{"id":24238,"date":"2016-06-25T17:17:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T21:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=24238"},"modified":"2016-06-30T08:54:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T12:54:07","slug":"new-instrument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=24238","title":{"rendered":"New Instrument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behold the Akai LPK25!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/lpk25.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It's a MIDI controller; in response to user input, it generates MIDI signals for other devices to use. This one sends its signals down a USB cable into a computer. And that's all it does - it makes no sounds of its own. It exists to tell other things to make sounds: things like a copy of Cakewalk Music Creator, for example.<\/p>\n<p>I can't play piano, but I'm going to learn enough to amuse myself. Here's one of my first attempts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"compact_audio_player_wrapper\"><div class=\"sc_player_container1\"><input type=\"button\" id=\"btnplay_6a094dbe135f91.66284459\" class=\"myButton_play\" onClick=\"play_mp3('play','6a094dbe135f91.66284459','https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/..\/songs\/circle.mp3','80','false');show_hide('play','6a094dbe135f91.66284459');\" \/><input type=\"button\"  id=\"btnstop_6a094dbe135f91.66284459\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"myButton_stop\" onClick=\"play_mp3('stop','6a094dbe135f91.66284459','','80','false');show_hide('stop','6a094dbe135f91.66284459');\" \/><div id=\"sm2-container\"><!-- flash movie ends up here --><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>All of the sounds here are from the software-based synthesizers that come with Cakewalk. Technology is amazing.<\/p>\n<p>I'm still shit for coming up with chords on the fly, but I can pick my way around a scale once I map out the notes.<\/p>\n<p>Amusement achieved ! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold the Akai LPK25! It's a MIDI controller; in response to user input, it generates MIDI signals for other devices to use. This one sends its signals down a USB cable into a computer. And that's all it does - it makes no sounds of its own. It exists to tell other things to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24238"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24263,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24238\/revisions\/24263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}