He also mentioned that Touch Bar Piano does nothing useful on Mac computers other than the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, although there may be ways for the app to run on other non-Touch Bar enabled Macs, using a third party application, although it goes without saying that the experience without the ability to use fingertips, would be largely. Touch Bar Piano is a piano built into the Touch Bar of your 2016 MacBook Pro. The piano is fully polyphonic and has a choice of 128 different instruments. It lets you pick different instrument voicings, such as an electric or acoustic grand piano, a glockenspiel or even synth violins and xylophones. You may want to check out more Mac applications, such as Haptic Touch Bar, Touch Bar Preview or Touch Bar Simulator, which might be related to Touch Bar Piano.
- Apple's Interface Guideline for the Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro says that it is intended to be used as an input device, not a secondary display. The Touch Bar shouldn't display alerts, messages, scrolling content, static content, or anything else that commands the user's attention or distracts from their work on the main screen.
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- Most MacBook Pro apps that have implemented support for the new Touch Bar have focused on putting settings, editing tools, and other utilitarian features right.
The Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro is either the best feature to come to the laptop in years or the most gimmicky, depending on where you stand. (Glowing reviews aside, I stand by my assessment that it looks like an ergonomic nightmare.)
But that hasn't stopped creative developers from finding new uses for the Touch Bar. Now, one developer has made a new music app that turns the Touch Bar into what might be the world's tiniest piano.
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Called Touch Bar Piano, the free app turns the Touch Bar into a tiny, but fully playable, piano. It's even possible to pick out individual keys well enough to play a song.
If piano isn't your thing, the app includes 127 other instruments, including stringed instruments and choir sounds.
Check it out in action in the video below.
Unfortunately, the app is more of a 'toy' for now, says developer Graham Parks, so you can't record what you play or do much else. But Parks says he's open to doing more with the app that he says he 'hacked together' in a couple hours.
'If there's interest, I'd love to make it interface with other music apps as a controller,' Parks wrote in an email to Mashable.
You can check out the app on Parks' website. If you don't have a new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, though, you're out of luck.
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'It does nothing useful on other Macs,' according to Parks.
h/t: Engadget
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Apple announced its new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar about a month ago. The new notebook is already available for purchase. The Touch Bar is its most unique aspect and Apple has opened it up to developers so that they can leverage the multi-touch display's functionality to build great experiences. One such app makes the new MacBook Pro's Touch Bar double as a miniature piano.
Developer Graham Parks has created this small app that turns the Touch Bar into a miniature piano. Those who own this notebook can easily play it using the Touch Bar. All they need to do is tap on the polyphonic keyboard's keys to play. It's that simple.
The app – called Touch Bar Piano – also allows users to pick various instrument voicings enabling them to switch between an acoustic grand piano and an electric. There are even xylophone and synth violin configurations.
Touch Bar Piano is available as a free download for the new MacBook Pro via the utsire website. It's an unsigned app so users will have to deal with the Gatekeeper prompts before the app can be installed.
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It looks like the app relies on the GarageBand sound library to actually generate the music. The app itself just lets users tap on the keys using the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro.
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