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BY:
ANABIA TAHIR
SAFA HAI
RAMISHA YAHYA
NAFEESA NADEEM
CLASS: X G
KEYBOARD
TYPES OF KEYBOARDS:
1. STANDARD AND QWERTY
2. CONCEPT
3. MUSICAL
4. KINESIS
5. MIDI (MUSICAL INSTRUMENT DIGITAL INTERFACE)
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WHAT IS A
KEYBOARD:
A keyboard is a typewriter-style
device, which uses an arrangement
of buttons or keys, to act as
mechanical levers or electronic
switches.
QWERTY
STANDARD AND
ITS FUNCTIONING:
QWERTY is the most common modern-day keyboard layout for
Latin script. The name comes from reading the first six keys
appearing on the top left letter row of the keyboard (Q, W, E, R, T,
and Y) from left to right. The QWERTY design is based on a layout
created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to
Remington in 1873.
In the QWERTY layout many more words can be spelled using only
the left hand than the right hand. In fact, thousands of English
words can be spelled using only the left hand, while only a couple
of hundred words can be typed using only the right hand. In
addition, most typing strokes are done with the left hand in the
QWERTY layout. This is helpful for left-handed people but to the
disadvantage of right-handed people.
CONS
Small key. Because the manufacturer has
to cramp so many key into small space,
the size of the key has to make small.
Some manufacturers make the button
easy to press by making them round, but
some actually make it hard to press just
to make the design look good.
More mistyping. If your finger is big, you
have higher chance of wrongly press the
key next to the one you want to press. If
you do this while you type fast, fixing
the error may take some time.
CONCEPT
KEYBOARD:
ITS FUNCTIONING:
> Like any keyboard it needs a software driver.
> You plug the Concept Keyboard into your computer and you also run
the driver which is called Concept plus Driver.
> You use Concept plus Driver to tell the computer which overlay you
want. The overlay contains all the information the computer needs.
> When the overlay has been opened you run that program you want
to use the Concept Keyboard with, e.g. Writing with Symbols 2000.
> Then when you press an area on the Concept Keyboard the computer
will do whatever the overlay has been created to tell it to do, e.g.
write the word cat.
CONS
MUSICAL
KEYBOARD(digital)
Amusical keyboardis the set of
adjacent depressible levers or
keys on amusical instrument.
ITS FUNCTIONING:
Contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the
Westernmusical scale, with a combination of
larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that
repeats at the interval of anoctave.
Depressing a key on the keyboard causes the
instrument to produce sounds, either by
mechanically striking a string or tine, plucking a
string; causing air to flow through a pipe.
On electric andelectronic keyboards , depressing
a key connects one or several circuits.
CONS
KINESIS KEYBOARD
ITS FUNCTIONING:
The Kinesis line of keyboards are marketed to those who type throughout the
work-day, and thus perceive a higher risk for such injuries asRSI. The Kinesis
was first used among computer programmers, who continue to be the primary
market for the devices.
Vertical key layout: Keys are arranged in vertical columns to reflect natural
motions of your fingers, and the keypads are sculpted and concave to fit the
varying lengths of your fingers.
Separate thumb keypads: The thumb keypad includes often used keys such as
Enter, Space, Backspace, Delete and the combination keys, Control and Alt on
the PC (Command and Option on the Macintosh). This redistributes the
workload from your relatively weaker and overused little fingers to stronger
thumbs.
Key remapping: Individual keys can be re-mapped or copied to other key
locations. As a result, you can customize the keyboards operation for your
personal use to reduce stressful reaches and establish an optimal hand
workload.
CONS
MIDI KEYBOARD:
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT OF DIGITAL INTERFACE
AMIDI keyboardis typically a piano-style user
interfacekeyboarddevice used for sendingMIDIsignals or
commands over a USB orMIDIcable to other devices
connected and operating on the sameMIDIprotocol
interface.
MIDI data can be transmitted electronically between MIDIcompatible musical instruments, or stored in a Standard
MIDI File for later playback.
ITS ADVANTAGES:
> VERSATILITY
> A small amount of time investment and minimal
knowledge of musical theory can produce stunning
results that would ordinarily be the result of
painstaking effort.
> MIDI keyboard sound quality is often
proportional to the quality of the MIDI keyboard
itself and the software that is translating the .MIDI
file.
> It allows you to have complete control to the
DISADVANTAGES:
MIDI keyboards at median prices do not have
weighable keys and cannot reproduce the tactile
experience of a traditional piano, or for that
matter, an electronic keyboard. This might offer
difficulties to a traditionally trained musician.
Unfortunately, software that has poor instrument
samples or distortion ability can limit the special
effects you can use to try to make the sound
more authentic.
However, many traditional musicians and
listeners consider it to be an inferior form of