Edit: My goal is to make a mini-synth which takes input from the computer keyboard. If you are a Ruby programmer on Linux, you could use this rubygem I wrote:

Edit: My goal is to make a mini-synth which takes input from the computer keyboard. If you are a Ruby programmer on Linux, you could use this rubygem I wrote: https://github.com/mike-bourgeous/mb-sound https://github.com/mike-bourgeous/mb-sound A video about using that gem to make a synthesizer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aS43s6TWnIY&feature=youtu.be https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aS43s6TWnIY&feature=youtu.be Part of a long-running experiment of mine to make educational videos about sound, which I hope might help you on your audio programming journey: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpRqC8LaADXnwve3e8gI239eDNRO3Nhya https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpRqC8LaADXnwve3e8gI2... There have been recent posts to HN about the difficulty of reading key-up events from the terminal. I used MIDI and a separate MIDI keyboard app for my video demo.