Touch Bar Piano
Touch Bar Piano is a piano built into the Touch Bar of your MacBook Pro.
The piano is fully polyphonic and has a choice of 128 different instruments.
Version 3.0 - October 2026 - 10 years too late
This finally adds MIDI output. Touch Bar Piano will appear to other apps as a virtual MIDI keyboard, so you can play into GarageBand, Logic Pro, MuseScore or anything else that accepts MIDI input — right from your built-in Touch Bar.
Download
Download Touch Bar Piano v3.0.0 — requires macOS 12 or later, and a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar.
If you don't have a Touch Bar you can try it out using Touché or connect an iPad using Apple's built-in Side Car feature, which inexplicably still has a virtual Touch Bar option.
The Original
Download Touch Bar Piano v1.0 — the original 2016 release. Runs on macOS 10.12.1 and later. No MIDI output. Untested on newer Macs.
Demo Video
Feedback
Please send queries to graham@utsire.com.
(P.S. What happenned to 2.0? It existed, Apple rejected it from the Mac App Store as not useful enough)