Max MSP is a visual programming language with nearly endless possibilities for art, music, and pretty much anything you put your mind to.

Wanting to expand our MaKey MaKey piano beyond the standard 6 keys, we wanted to use Max to create a larger piano with more notes. The follow Max patch can be used to create an 11-key MaKey MaKey piano, but could easily be used to create piano with considerably more notes.

If you are a Max user, please feel free to borrow this patch. If you have ideas for improving it, please let us know!

(Special thanks to Bill Turkel for some technical assistance with this script)

Copy the following text into Max to use our patch:

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