Now you can play music as if you had a MIDI keyboard connected to your computer — without the hardware hassle. Mouse Keyboard makes it easy to compose your music while on the road with only a laptop, or to play software synthesizers like Reason live with your computer keyboard. Additionally, it can serve as a virtual control surface using mouse, mouse wheel, and joysticks as input.
Bome Mouse Keyboard
Play Music Without a MIDI Keyboard
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Use your computer keyboard and mouse to play and control MIDI instruments — perfect for composing on the go or as a virtual controller.
Key Features
- Play and compose music with the mouse or the computer keyboard
- Play entire chords with one key – includes chord editor
- Transpose all MIDI notes
- Instrument name support via patch scripts
- User-definable knobs to control MIDI synths and software
- Use your mouse wheel to send pitch bend and MIDI controllers
- Use your joysticks as MIDI controllers
- Tutorials for Reason, Cubase, Sonar, and Acid
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Support
Full support resources are available in our support section, including tutorials, documentation, and access to discussion forums.
Manual
The manual contains detailed information about the usage of Bome Mouse Keyboard.
User’s Manual
Tutorials
- Bome’s Mouse Keyboard with Propellerhead’s Reason 3
- Bome’s Mouse Keyboard with Propellerhead’s Reason 2.x
- Bome’s Mouse Keyboard with Steinberg’s Cubase SX
- Bome’s Mouse Keyboard with Cakewalk’s Sonar
Additional Tutorials (3rd Party)
- Bome’s Mouse Keyboard with Acid (thanks to John Rofrano)
User Contributions
User ContributionsVersion History
For a full changelog of new features and bug fixes in each version, please see the version history section further down the page.
Downloads
Version 2.0 for Windows
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Licensing
If you are a commercial user, or if you want to remove the nag screen at start-up, you’re asked to purchase a license.