On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:56:51 +0000 "Louis B." <louisjbarman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > Thanks for all your comments. > > I would be interested to hear if anybody has got Piano Booster working > OK, especially those of you who have tried playing along with a piano > Keyboard. (Has any body tried the Easy Play Beethoven? Did you manage > to make the accuracy bar go blue?) > > <q> Any plans for JACK audio and JACK midi support? </q> > > Not at the moment my highest priority is improving the latency. To use > PianoBooster you have to shut everything down including your search > for the next highest prime number!! By the way how do find the latency > on your setup? Piano Booster cannot buffer any Midi Events as it > responds in real time to what you are playing. > > <q> 1. Choose track or tracks to play. That now enables any midi file > and instruments besides the piano. Note that certain instruments use > different staves than the two piano cleffs so a full implementation is > more difficult. Minimally, let my choose the two tracks for piano > staves since this is the focus of the program.</q> > > You can already choose _any_ track to play and also it should work > with _any_ MIDI file. I am thinking of automatically adding av8 marks > so that if it goes too high or too low for the dual piano clefs it > will be displayed an octave higher or lower with the av8 mark. This > should be particular good for the bass part which are often great to > play along to. It automatically will split the right an left parts of > a single track at middle C. Currently to get it to uses two tracks one > for left hand and the other for the right hand you need rewrite the > MIDI file to uses MIDI channels 3 + 4 (this is a convention for MIDI > piano accompaniment files) and set both these instruments to the use > GM Grand Piano patch. > > <q>2. Option to display more of the score (limited by screen real > estate but the view in the screen shot seems very large. Zoom in/out? > </q> > > The view of the score score is deliberately restricted to reduce the > CPU usage to help with the latency on slow machines (until the real > time hooks have been added to the code). However as the screen is > drawn using OpenGl then this should in principle be easy to add. As is > zooming in and out. But when sight reading music you only need to see > one or possibly two bars ahead. > > Thanks > > L o u i s > > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:40 PM, 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 Thanks, this sounds really great. I'll try it once I figured out how to build packages on my new system. As it happens I just started to learn piano, so it could be of some help to me. I could also try to compare your app to the learn function of my e-piano. well, probably not before next week.. Philipp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
