USB Keyboard Hack Question

[Zathras]

I'm considering building a simple recording controller like pathdoc2s.

I think an encoder would be a bit overkill for it so I am leaning towards a USB keyboard hack - so it would be hot swappable.   I know about the key-press limitation but there will only be one button pressed at a time.

Anyway my question - some of the controls/shortcuts I want to add to the board require multiple keypresses (ie  - shift+r )...  Is there some trick/workaround to get that to work from a single button press?

Any other ideas?

[AlanS17]

For what it costs to buy a USB keyboard, you're already halfway towards buying a budget KeyWiz device. At least that's how i see it.

[Zathras]

I already have a few spare USB Keyboards lying around so they are in a sense "free."

But I may have just discovered an alternate way to do it solving my multiple keypress issue.    I've got a spare USB gamepad - maybe just hacking that and using JoyToKey would work better.  Has anyone tried the multiple key aspect of JoyToKey?  Anything I'm missing there (I'm at work and on a Linux box or else I would try it out myself...)

[AlanS17]

That ought to work so long as JoyToKey is compatible with the version of OS you're using. Hacking a gamepad is infinitely easier. No mapping, no worrying about matrices. You just hack it. Done.