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I used to keep a piano keyboard next to my computer for loading downtime, and it was the least depressed days of my life.
Why not do it again then? Even a small keyboard might do.
I gave it to a relative that wanted to learn piano and I was too busy with work to sit at the comp/piano station, then never got around to getting another. I have a second hand seaboard now but I haven't looked into setting it up or if it even works under linux
If it's a midi keyboard, it should be pretty easy to get working. No problem if you got a DAW definitely, but I'm sure there are enough programs that can play piano sounds at midi input.
And midi is mostly just USB nowadays, so connecting should be easy enough.
If it's not a midi keyboard, it should have its own speakers, otherwise what's even the purpose?
I swear I wish I wasn’t so stupid.
I have Roland electric drums and I couldn’t figure that shit out to save my life. I finally plugged them into my old Mac and Logic Pro just did it for me.
Electric drums are not a piano though. Getting drum pads (or pads in general) to work correctly can be a bit weird.
I seem to recall that it was convention for all drum pads to always be on midi channel 11, so even if your device normally outputs in channel one, it does that. Maybe try to set it to that? But it's a long time ago that I've worked with that so don't quote me.