Recorded acoustic samples
The default sound is a sampled acoustic grand, not a synthesised approximation. Notes decay naturally, chords ring together, and the sustain pedal holds them the way it should.
A real piano keyboard in your browser, with recorded grand piano samples. Play it with your mouse, your touchscreen or your computer keyboard — nothing to install, nothing to pay for.
The first click unlocks the audio and loads the grand piano samples. After that every key responds instantly, and you can drag across the board to glissando.
Z X C V B N M play the lower octave and Q W E R T Y U I the one above, with the black keys on the row between them. The letters are printed on the keys, so you can see the mapping while you play instead of memorising it.
Move the two-octave window up or down with the octave buttons, and hold the spacebar to keep notes ringing the way the sustain pedal does on an acoustic piano.
Most browser keyboards play beeping synth tones. This one plays recorded samples of a real instrument, and it behaves like one too.
The default sound is a sampled acoustic grand, not a synthesised approximation. Notes decay naturally, chords ring together, and the sustain pedal holds them the way it should.
Every key on screen is playable from the keyboard — two octaves laid out the way FL Studio does it, with the letters printed on the keys. Detection reads the physical key position, so the layout lands in the same place on QWERTY and QWERTZ boards.
Swap the grand piano for an electric piano, a church organ, celesta, vibraphone, marimba, strings, choir or guitar. Every one of them is free and switches instantly.
Hit Record and the piano captures your take with a click track running underneath, then shows it back as notes on a roll. Send it straight to the beat maker and keep building the track around it.
Sometimes you just need a piano. Maybe you are checking a chord, working out a melody you have in your head, teaching someone where middle C is, or you simply do not have an instrument in the room. This page loads straight into a playable keyboard — no account screen, no download, no plugin.
The keys are wide enough to hit accurately, they depress when you play them, and dragging across the board glissandos the way a real keyboard does. On a phone the board scrolls sideways rather than shrinking the keys down to unusable slivers.
Mouse playing is fine for one note at a time, but the computer keyboard is where an online piano becomes genuinely useful. The layout is the one FL Studio uses for its typing keyboard: the bottom rows are the lower octave — Z X C V B N M as C D E F G A B, with S D G H J for the black keys — and the top rows repeat the pattern an octave up on Q W E R T Y U I and 2 3 5 6 7. Between them they cover every key on screen.
Because several keys can be held at once, you can play actual chords instead of arpeggiating everything by hand. Hold the spacebar and the notes keep ringing after you let go, which is exactly what the right pedal on an acoustic piano does.
Playing is one thing; keeping the idea is another. When something is worth saving, open the music studio from the button above and build the track around it — drums, bass, arrangement, and real-time collaboration with friends.
If you would rather place notes precisely than play them live, the melody maker gives you a full piano roll with MIDI and WAV export, so the idea can leave the browser and land in your DAW.
Yes. The online piano is completely free — no account, no trial, no subscription. Every instrument, the sustain pedal and the recorder are unlocked from the first visit.
Your keyboard covers both octaves on screen, using the same layout as FL Studio’s typing keyboard. The bottom rows play the lower octave — Z X C V B N M for the white keys, S D G H J for the black ones — and the top rows play the octave above: Q W E R T Y U I with 2 3 5 6 7. Press the spacebar to hold the sustain pedal, exactly like the right pedal on a real piano.
No. The piano runs entirely in your browser using real recorded samples, so it works on a laptop, a school computer or a borrowed machine without an installer, a plugin or a Flash player.
Yes. The keys respond to touch and you can slide your finger across them to glissando. On narrow screens the keyboard scrolls sideways so the keys stay wide enough to hit accurately.
Acoustic grand piano and electric piano, plus church organ, drawbar organ, celesta, vibraphone, marimba, strings, choir and acoustic guitar. Switch at any time from the dropdown above the keys.
Use the octave buttons in the toolbar. The board shows two octaves at a time and shifts across the full range, so you can drop into the bass for a left-hand part or climb up for a melody.
Not on this page — it is built for playing rather than editing. If you want to keep an idea, open the beat maker from the button below the piano, or sketch it note by note in the melody maker and export it as MIDI or WAV.
Open the full music studio to add drums, basslines and arrangement — and work on the song with friends in real time.