I am looking at a project which would involve connecting a (piano type) keyboard to the PC and being able to monitor key presses along with velocity (how fast/hard the key was pressed). This is not actually for music at all, but is a custom input into a system I am designing where a 40-60 key keyboard would be ideally suited.

Most keyboards support MIDI and I am wondering if it is feasible to process MIDI messages to get thte information I am looking for...

Thanks in advance...