# Laptop Keyboard

**URL:** <https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/laptop-keyboard/20985>\
**Category:** Scaler 3 General Discussion\
**Tags:** Windows\
**Created:** [April 2, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/laptop-keyboard/20985 "2025-04-02T20:51:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moondog](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/forum.scalermusic.com/moondog/32/10941_2.png) [@Moondog](https://forum.scalermusic.com/u/Moondog)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/laptop-keyboard/20985/1 "2025-04-02T20:51:04Z")

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At times I just like to doodle about using just the laptop keyboard as my input. To get it to work I have to first “press” a key/note on the virtual scaler keyboard with the mouse (is this a bug?) This enables the keyboard on the laptop (A to L + Q to P). This enables it momentarily. If I do some other operation,(ie choose a different motion) then I have to go through the mouse press operation again to enable it

Furthermore, the laptop plays very high (C4 upwards) , How do I get it to play further down the virtual keyboard/octave ?

Thanks for your time and patience