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I've been a split ergo keyboard user for many years now. Seen a lot of people decide to go from a traditional keyboard to a split ergo keyboard only to end up hating it.

This is too big of a jump to make in one go, and the sudden overhead in the amount of new information your mind and fingers need to get adjusted to ends up overwhelming a lot of people.

When you switch to a custom keyboard like the one you did. It's not just a split keyboard you're switching to, you also move to a smaller form factor that has lesser keys, and an ortholinear layout which has column stagger instead of row stagger. It's most effective to transition by gradually moving to the next form factor only after you're fully comfortable with the previous ones.

In your case, something like the Kinesis freestyle would have been a much better choice for you.

I've seen tons of very active projects under Google's GitHub org[1] that have the disclaimer "This is not an officially supported Google product" so I would take a guess that they have a much better policy on employees participating in OSS than Apple does.

[1] https://github.com/google

MilkyTracker 1.04 3 years ago

Are there any resources for an absolute newbie to learn music production from? I really want to get into it but the dense UIs are intimidating and there doesn't seem to be a simple easy starting point.

Are video tutorials the way to go? Or should I start with music theory first? I checked out some videos but they seem to assume some music theory knowledge but I'm not sure if that's needed if all I want to do is make chiptune music.