Keyboard Autocue

Michael Sheldon (mike at mikeasoft dot com)

I like fiddling with my keyboard but dislike having to try flipping pages of music mid-song (or pressing page down if I'm using my laptop). My solution to this problem (if I had copious amounts of money lying around) would be to create an embedded GNU/Linux based device with an LCD and a MIDI port. The device would clip in to the music stand portion of a keyboard and display the notes from a MIDI file on the display. The keyboard's MIDI-Out port would be plugged in to the device's MIDI-In and as the user played the keyboard it would track their progress and automatically scroll the music for them.