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Proxima Controller
Play MIDI devices with your mouse or computer keyboard using Proxima Controller, a free Windows virtual keyboard with five octaves and channel, bank and patch controls.
Version 1.11 · Direct publisher file
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What is Proxima Controller?
Proxima Controller turns a mouse and computer keyboard into controls for MIDI instruments. Use it to send notes to an external synthesizer or tone generator, or to an internal device that responds to MIDI messages, such as Microsoft's GS Wavetable synth. It is a MIDI controller, not a sound-generating instrument: the selected receiving device must produce the audio.
Each row of a standard computer keyboard controls a different octave on the virtual keyboard. The application provides five octaves of control, MIDI channels 1–16, bank and patch changes, and pitch and modulation sliders. Its device selector lets you choose the MIDI destination.
Zeta Centauri lists version 1.11 as freeware for Windows 11, 10, 8 and 7. The linked download is the publisher's EXE setup package. CPU architecture and a release date are not specified on the product page; the Windows support list is the publisher's statement, not the result of local compatibility testing.
What it offers
- Send notes to external MIDI synthesizers and tone generators using a mouse or computer keyboard.
- Control internal devices that accept MIDI messages, including the Microsoft GS Wavetable synth named by the publisher.
- Use five octaves of virtual keyboard control, with computer-keyboard rows mapped to different octaves.
- Select MIDI channels 1–16 and change banks and patches.
- Adjust pitch and modulation using sliders.
Good to know
- Produces no sound of its own; a receiving MIDI device must generate the audio.
- The publisher lists Windows 11, 10, 8 and 7 but does not specify CPU architecture on the product page.
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