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Touch Bar on new Apple MacBook Pro turns into world’s tiniest piano


Touch Bar on new Apple MacBook Pro turns into world’s tiniest piano

It seems that the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro has developed a following of developers looking to turn the OLED feature into the ultimate anti-stress gadget.

Apple introduced the Touch Bar after a string of rumors surrounding this feature, amidst as much disbelief that Apple would actually integrate a touchscreen on a Mac computer, as there was in regard to the Apple Pencil. Now that the Touch Bar is finally here, apps are beginning to pop up, that turn the MacBook Pro’s most gimmicky feature into anything, including a Touch-enabled Doom emulator, a sound machine, and, as of late, the world’s tiniest piano.

The caveat, for most of these apps, is that they are largely unavailable on the Mac App Store, with most requiring users to grant special permissions to sideload the apps from compressed files, downloaded directly from the developer’s website.

Security concerns aside, Touch Bar Piano v1.0 is a miniature synthesizer piano, that can use 128 different instruments, aside from the default piano, including strings, woodwinds, and drums.

Touch Bar Piano is far from wanting to be any kind of professional app, but it sure is fun to play with when downtime calls.

The app’s developer, Graham Parks, has released a video, in which he demonstrates how Touch Bar Piano works and responds. While by Parks’ own admission, he did reiterate that the app is just a “toy”, he did mention that he would love to have it interface with other desktop apps in the future. 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 pointless.


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