Show HN: Pianoterm – Run shell commands from your Piano. A Linux CLI tool

26 points - today at 8:50 PM


A little weekend project, made so I can pause/play/rewind directly on the piano, when learning a song by ear.

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vunderba today at 10:59 PM
Nice job. Feels like there's a bit of misunderstanding of what this project is. It has nothing to do with audio - it's purely a means of mapping MIDI to shell commands.

There was (still is) a very popular program called BOME Midi Translator that did something similar - think of it like AutoHotKey but specifically for midi.

Back when I made heavy use of Kontakt libraries I got frustrated at the lack of an easy way to audition the patches (of which there could be hundreds on a single sampler). To get around it, I created a Bome script so when I pressed an unused button on my midi controller it would trigger a mouse click to advance to the next patch in my DAW and then send a note-on / note-off for C4 for half a second.

Made previewing the sounds much easier.

ctoth today at 10:10 PM
How about chords? Melodies which are paths? Passwords? Lots of great potential here!
sigseg1v today at 10:05 PM
This is one of those projects that would be 10x better with a video demonstration!
smokel today at 9:43 PM
Ooh, let's spend next weekend doing this with my acoustic piano!
matthew_hre today at 10:21 PM
My Claude Code sessions are about to sound like the Breath of the Wild soundtrack
runamuck today at 10:03 PM
So I can run shell from a Miracle Piano connected to a NES running Linux?
shablulman today at 9:21 PM
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CagedJean today at 11:05 PM
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