Don’t be afraid of its possibilities for now I’m going to tell you how I use it for my daily work alongside some grim reminders of my ineptitude as a musician some music hardware that I fortuitously had kicking around.Īmong the many things that Keyboard Maestro can do is to run scripts in a browser. I have described it to people as a Swiss Army knife of possibilities, and many people will likely just use a couple of blades and never use that pokey thing that is, I gather, for removing stones from horses’ hooves or something. It’s a macOS app that lets you run all manner of macros and which, I’ll admit, can be somewhat overwhelming when you first play around with it. To try to make sense of the various tools and scripts that I find myself using day in and day out, I turned to an app called Keyboard Maestro. We all have our favorite tools that we run for testing web page features, whether that’s browser extensions, bookmarklets or favelets, or copy and pasting bespoke scripts into the console whatever works for you, that’s great (as long as you know that automated tools will only get you so far).
Testing tools and scripts: what’s your poison? In recent times, I’ve come to realize that these buttons and pads can be quite easily put to other uses in my day-to-day work auditing web sites for accessibility. What it actually does, though, is create a pile of technology that serves as little more than a testament to your failed musical dreams:īut it’s not all bad news. One of the side effects of this propensity for hammering keys and pads in the vain hope that it may result in something creative is that you can be easily tempted by hardware that will ‘unleash your inner musician’. Or as someone once said: throw enough darts, and eventually you win a fish. No, I’m more of the type who knows a handful of chords and knows that if I record enough times and jab at those keys enough times, I might eventually end up with something that passes for music that you can actually listen to. Actually, it’s a bit rich to call myself a ‘musician’ at all, let alone a failed one.
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