Sound Pilot adds typewriter sounds to your computer keyboard. It creates the romantic sound atmosphere of the time of Remingtons. With every touch of the keyboard, there is a new sound. This makes the process of typing more interesting and intertaining, reduces stress, and helps encourage more rhythmical typing.
Typewriter Keyboard is a software that imitates the sound of an old typewriter when pressing the keys of a Mac. It is entertaining and is able to play not only typewriter sounds but also any other custom sounds. Key Features Typewriter sounds This program reproduces the sound of typewriters when typing on the computer's keyboard.
By default, Sound Pilot uses the typewriter sound set. However, you may switch to another sound scheme (for instance ICQ or Morse). If your mood changes, with two clicks you can switch your sound scheme, changing the sound aura around you.
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Sound Pilot 2.2 (6.4 Mb) – Win XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10
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Versions History
November 11 2016 :: Version 2.2
– Saving the current volume and filter settings has been fixed.
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How to use the program
After you install Sound Pilot, you will see the program icon in the System Tray:
By default, the typewriter sound set is used. To switch to another sound scheme, right-click the program icon and choose a sound scheme from the “Sound Schemes” menu.
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To make the program mute, right-click the program icon and click “Mute”:
To change the volume, right-click the program icon and click “Sound Schemes | Settings…”
The following sound schemes are provided with the program: Battle, Castanets, Dial-Tone, Erotic, Football, Heretic, Icq, Kin-Dza-Dza, Laser Sable, Morse, Photo, Piano-keys, Pig, Pseudo-Morse, Roundelay, Ruber, Smith-Corona, Stamina, Tap-Dance, Typewriter, Voice-Fast, Voice-Mellow, Voice-Robot, Zoo.
You can also create your own sound schemes by setting different sounds for different buttons on your Keyboard. Read more…
See AlsoWhy did you write this?
It started because I was trying to tell my kids about how typewriters worked (because of course they'd never seen one), so I looked for a typewriter simulator on the web, but all the existing ones that I could find get one very basic thing wrong - when you press backspace, they erase the character you just typed, like a computer. On a real typewriter, backspace simply moves the carriage back one space, allowing you to overtype a previously typed character. Erasing requires Tipp-Ex or suchlike.
One day my youngest son suggested I should write one that works the right way and allows overtyping. This seemed like it would be an interesting challenge... and indeed it was. The first version took me about an hour.
Since then it's all got a bit out of hand as I strive to make the program's output 'worse' by trying to faithfully re-create some of the other interesting eccentricities of typewriters that have been eliminated in the computer age, such as wobbly and unevenly-inked characters. Thanks to all the beta testers for their great suggestions and feedback.
Why are some of my keypresses being ignored? / Why can't I type at my usual speed?
On a manual typewriter, only one (striking) key may be pressed at a time, otherwise at best the second key's hammer gets blocked by the first, and at worst the hammers may get tangled together and require picking apart. OverType replicates this (just the blocking, not the tangling, for now...) by ignoring any keypresses that happen when a character key is already being held down. Because you are used to typing on a computer, you almost certainly overlap your keypresses without even realising it. Be sure to release each key before pressing the next.
Likewise, you cannot type during a carriage return. You have to wait for it to finish.
How do I print what I've typed?![]()
Just use your browser's standard Print function. It will use the print stylesheet, which omits all the on-screen controls, page border and background, and just prints the contents of the page.
Typewriter Keyboard MacHow do I save/export?
You can use your operating system's 'Print to file' function (on a Mac, the 'PDF' button in the bottom-left of the Print dialog). As with printing to an actual printer, this will just render the contents of the page, not the controls or background. Alternatively, if you want the background and your text fits on the screen, take a screenshot.
How can I save as plain text or in Word format for later editing?
You can't, for two reasons. Firstly, it's completely against the spirit of a manual typewriter. Secondly, the whole purpose of this program is to replicate features of a manual typewriter that computer programs such as word processors and text editors cannot replicate, such as overtyped, unevenly inked, and wobbly characters. If you could export as text you would lose all of that. If you want editable text, use a word processor or text editor like a sane person...
Are you watching what I type? / Can I save files on the server?
No. The code runs entirely on your machine; no data is sent back to the server.
![]() I love this so much I want to give you some money / hire you to write code for me!
That's great, thanks! Donations of any size are always welcome to my Paypal account, [email protected] (please don't email me about OverType at this address - use the one above).
I'm a freelance full-stack LAMP developer with 20 years' experience. My specialities include PHP, Perl, jQuery, Linux sysadmin and MySQL; if you have a job offer to discuss, I'd love to hear from you - please email [email protected].
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