[yowlingcat]

Very cool; I must say, I've never thought of, or seen this mapping used but looking at it, it does totally match a guitar fretboard and if you go horizontally it maps very closely.

I imagine part of this comes from the fact the fact that QWERTY midi maps to the piano rather than guitar comes from the fact that most MIDI controllers are piano based rather than guitar based (with a couple exceptions), so generally speaking if you're composing music at the computer (whether with a tracker or conventional DAW), you're going to generally bite the bullet and just learn how to hack it on a keyboard. I've adapted to this just because it makes it easier to use the existing ecosystem of equipment and software, but I always wondered what it would be like for things to be more guitar based.