On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Louis B. <louisjbarman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > PianoBooster version 0.5.0 has just been released, this is the first > ever release of PianoBooster. > > If you dabble in music and have a Midi Piano keyboard lying around > then give PianoBooster a go as it actually makes sight reading music > fun!!!!! > > To see what it is all about take a look at the screen shot: > > http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/images/LinuxScreenShot.png > > > First choose a MIDI file (the Easy Play Beethoven is a good one -- see > the download page for where this can be found) then select which part > that you want to play along with (e.g. the piano part or the strings > part etc). Then select the "left" hand or the "right" hand or if you > are feeling really brave choose "both hands" and try to play along. > The "Follow You" mode make it really easy to sight read the scrolling > notes as the whole accompaniment will stop and wait for you to find > and play the right notes. > > The accuracy bar monitors how well you are playing. If you are skilled > enough the accuracy bar will go right to the end and then turn blue. > But every time you are too slow or playing out of time, then the > accuracy bar slips back a bit. > > You can watch a video of it in action on YouTube: > > http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7YaDllVreuM > > Piano Booster 0.5.0 is released under the GPL and is available at > SourceForge on this page: > > http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/download.html > > > L o u i s B a r m a n > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > Damn that is AWESOME! Now if only it did it with audio instead of midi i could use it with my double bass... because my sight reading is terrible. Might have to get a epiano.... :) Loki _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
