Dodeka Keyboard on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
The Dodeka Keyboard design is an 
AltKeyboard
Dodeka Music
Dodeka keyboard website Electric and electronic keyboard instruments Isomorphic keyboard layouts
The Dodeka Keyboard design is an isomorphic keyboard An isomorphic keyboard is a musical input device consisting of a two-dimensional grid of note-controlling elements (such as buttons or keys) on which any given sequence and/or combination of musical intervals has the "same shape" on the keyboard whe ...
invented and designed by Jacques-Daniel Rochat. It is similar to a piano keyboard but with only a single row of keys containing each chromatic note. The keys corresponding to C, E and A flat are highlighted to provide visual landmarks. The creators aimed to create a rational and chromatic approach to music and performance. As an isomorphic keyboard An isomorphic keyboard is a musical input device consisting of a two-dimensional grid of note-controlling elements (such as buttons or keys) on which any given sequence and/or combination of musical intervals has the "same shape" on the keyboard whe ...
, any musical sequence or interval has the same shape in each of the 12 keys.
Music notation
The Dodeka design was developed together with theDodeka Music Notation
The Dodeka Music Notation is an alternative music notation or musical notation system invented and designed in 1980s by inventor and musician Jacques-Daniel Rochat in an attempt to improve upon traditional music notation.
Staff and pitch
Unl ...
.{{Cite book, url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1078658738, title=Dodeka : la révolution musicale, last=Rochat, first=Jacques-Daniel, date=2018, publisher=Crea 7, isbn=9782970127505, location=Chexbres, oclc=1078658738 It consists of a four-line chromatic staff, and represents rhythms only using the visual length of a bar on the staff, reminiscent of the appearance of "piano roll" in digital audio workstations
A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic device or application software used for recording, editing and producing audio files. DAWs come in a wide variety of configurations from a single software program on a laptop, to an integrate ...
.
See also
*Isomorphic Keyboards An isomorphic keyboard is a musical input device consisting of a two-dimensional grid of note-controlling elements (such as buttons or keys) on which any given sequence and/or combination of musical intervals has the "same shape" on the keyboard whe ...
* Jankó keyboard
The Jankó keyboard is a musical keyboard layout for a piano designed by Paul von Jankó, a Hungarian pianist and engineer, in 1882. It was designed to overcome two limitations on the traditional piano keyboard: the large-scale geometry of the k ...
References
External links
AltKeyboard
Dodeka Music
Dodeka keyboard website Electric and electronic keyboard instruments Isomorphic keyboard layouts