How Can I Clean My Keyboard Without Messing It Up ?

How can I clean my keyboard without messing it up ?

Most keyboards keys will pop off when you pry up on them. Soak in HOT water and dawn dish soap. Use an old toothbrush to scrub if needed. Rinse in hot water and then lay out on a towel until the inside or underneath side is dry. It takes time, but it's cheaper than replacing the keyboard! If you do not know where the keys go, only do a few at a time or take a picture of the keyboard first to have a reference when putting the keys back on. (Make sure computer is off when doing this! LOL)

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How to play a lot of keyboard parts of a song at the same time live?

I am a keyboard player who plays 3 keyboards. Korg N364's. I can emulate pretty much any song as a live performance. The answer to your question is not so much 'how you play' but how you engineer your keyboards for the parts. The answer is Layering and splitting.What you need to know about your keyboard is how to split the keyboard up. I can layer 8 sounds on top of each other. therefor I can also split/divide the keyboard into 8 individual sections. I can place the split anywhere along the 68 notes and also layer up on 1 note for chords.This can sound like you have 4 hands rather than 2. For instance lets say you have a brass section of a song. You can place the main trumpet over a section of your keyboard so that the keys only play where your complete part is. You might have harmonizing trumpets that play over certain notes of your lead trumpet. You place those on the notes where they harmonize the lead. you might need to use a couple of layers for the harmony as the harmony does not always follow the lead. it might be a semitone lower or higher somewhere. Next add the sax where you need it. remember, I am emulating the original song here so you need to have a good ear to pick out all of the parts. So there I may have used 5 out of the 8 parts available to create the brass. The next thing is to find where the chords are going on a keyboard. You might have piano or synth with a sting backing which follows the piano. Layer the piano and place the layers where you can play them. Remember that your keyboard can also transpose the notes of each layer or sound to where you need them.Sometimes I might have to place a sound played on octave 7 or 8 onto octave 1. The sound might not transpose that deep so then I have to edit the patch itself and make the patch higher in octave and save it as a separate patch so that when it is placed on octave 1 it is correct. Sometimes the song might have piano and string layers as mentioned but further on it might not have the strings. I then have to create a new layer somewhere just for the piano. It might have bells overlayed on a certain note. Just layer them and fit the bells to the note where it is to be played.so what you end up with is 3 keyboards completely split and layered with each part that will be played throughout the song.All you have to do now is memorize everything and play the song. Good Luck!

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How can I fix a stubborn keyboard?

If you have not done so already, do a full shutdown and restart of the laptop. But I am not optimistic. Laptop keyboards are not built for strength: They are built to be thin, and lightweight. The springs are little silicone rubber cylinders. Give it a few hours; maybe the rubber will relax. If not, you will need a new keyboard. (That's not the end of the world. Most laptops, swapping the keyboard is easy. You might even find a replacement keyboard on eBay, or something.)

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Keyboard and Touchpad stopped working - MacBook Pro 15" - Mid 2009

I have 2 MacBook Pro's 2009. My keyboard and trackpad stopped working on one. Tried usual - resetting Pram and SMC - no result. I opened it to find the Trackpad Cable was damaged. I did not want to start buying pieces for it when I was not sure if trackpad cable would have affected the keyboard as well - and online advice said it should not - so I disconnected it on my other Macbook to find it would not even start with the Trackpad cable disconnected ?? Anyway, to answer the question, I bought a new trackpad cable Online for 15, fitted it and all(trackpad AND Keyboard) are working again :) All the best! Sen