Virtual Online Piano Keyboard with MIDI Functionality

About this online piano

With this online piano tool I wanted to make it easy to practice piano skills for free without having to install extra software or create a user account. Just plug-in a MIDI keyboard, activate it, and start playing. It can't get much simpler than that!

If you're in the market for a good MIDI keyboard, check out this post about mini MIDI keyboards or this post about 49-key keyboards on Keyboard Kraze for some good recommendations.

The virtual piano comes with a few extra goodies. You can highlight a particular scale to make it easy to play in scale. You can even lock a scale, so that only the notes from the selected scale will play and notes outside the scale will stay silent. This makes it easy to practice your piano scales. On top of that, when playing chords, you'll see the name of the chord you're currently playing in the bottom left corner of the screen.

Tip: On a mobile phone, tilt your screen to landscape mode for a larger piano visual.

Right now the piano keyboard has 25 keys, but you can still play higher or lower octaves on your MIDI keyboard and hear the notes being played. Stay tuned, as I'm planning on adding an option to extend the visual piano keyboard to show more keys.

P.S. If you're interested in learning to play the piano online, I invite you to check out my are online piano lessons effective? article.

Using a MIDI controller / Browser support

At the moment only Chrome and Chrome-based browsers like Brave, Opera and Edge support MIDI devices out of the box. That means that you won't be able to use a MIDI keyboard right out of the box in browsers like Safari or Firefox.

The easiest is to use a browser like Chrome, Brave, Opera or Edge, but if you're interested in making it work in Safari or Firefox, you can check out this page for instructions on how to install plugins so that MIDI devices can work in either Safari or Firefox.