# Keyboards with built in 'smarts' about Music Theory - both conventional (eg TheoryBoard) and Microtonal (eg Lumatone) and everything 'in between' - including Brain Interfaces

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That’s OK @riban - you can’t be expected to implement every good idea. We would like some spiritual guidance though.

It seemed to me that this would make sense as a “controller-driver” as introduced in [NEW: Control-device manager + controller device "drivers"](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/new-control-device-manager-controller-device-drivers/8593) . Primarily because it would be very closely tied to the hardware controls available. There might be common functionality that would be called by specific controller-drivers to avoid having duplicate code to maintain. Are you suggesting a plugin approach instead? Any easy to explain reason?

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