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RandomSong [is now started]

2011-12-05T21:31:14-08:00

Once SheetMusic is killer enough, make a random song that's at your level and doesn't sound terrible. This'll help you practice sight reading (if ya happen to be into that.)

sheet music improvements - multiple rows (and multiple cols for pianonotes) [is now started]

2011-11-12T10:02:43-08:00

time to make the sheet music truly usable. multiple rows, too. multiple columns for pianonotes window. and full scale printing.

sheet music improvements - multiple rows (and multiple cols for pianonotes) [updated]

2011-11-12T10:02:42-08:00

time to make the sheet music truly usable. multiple rows, too. multiple columns for pianonotes window. and full scale printing.

Stephen Hazel (admin) responded:

yay!

sheet music improvements - multiple rows (and multiple cols for pianonotes) [updated]

2011-11-06T12:48:16-08:00

time to make the sheet music truly usable. multiple rows, too. multiple columns for pianonotes window. and full scale printing.

Stephen Hazel said:

oh mannnn, if you were given a choice to read LH/RH colored notes or else black with inner ledger lines and 8va/vb stuff, you wouldn't pick the inner ledger lines would ya??

I'm probably gonna start without inner ledger/8va/vbs and add them later as optional. I guess it'll help you practice for old printed sheet music.
But I can't imagine preferring to read those notations :/

sheet music improvements - multiple rows (and multiple cols for pianonotes) [updated]

2011-11-06T12:36:42-08:00

time to make the sheet music truly usable. multiple rows, too. multiple columns for pianonotes window. and full scale printing.

Andy Toh said:

Coloured notes are fine, but give the users the ability to choose which colours they want (including black).

Inner ledger lines are needed because all sheet music uses them. We don't want people using the two staves glued together, get used to that, and then can't play inner ledger lines from normal music sheets any more.

song library [updated]

2011-10-17T08:30:53-07:00

I know a guy who's good at transcription - hopefully I'll find a way round copyright. Ok, or find a way TO FOLLOW copyright laws and be able to have killer pop songs that you can download and practice !! Not sure how feasible this is gonna be... We'll have ta seeee...

Stephen Hazel said:

Hmmm, ok, I'll check into that.
Thanks dude :)

song library [updated]

2011-10-16T22:32:09-07:00

Nicholas Piegdon said:

Check out the Harry Fox Agency (harryfox.com). My understanding is that MIDI files are covered under the compulsory "Mechanical License", which makes it pretty easy to work with.

PianoSoloize the song [is now under review]

2011-10-16T21:20:58-07:00

take a song and redo the notes octaves and such so a single dude could play it on piano (taking into account a hand span and probably a ton of other things I need to consider)

PianoSoloize the song

2011-10-16T21:20:44-07:00

Stephen Hazel suggested:
take a song and redo the notes octaves and such so a single dude could play it on piano (taking into account a hand span and probably a ton of other things I need to consider)

RandomSong [is now planned]

2011-10-16T21:19:02-07:00

Once SheetMusic is killer enough, make a random song that's at your level and doesn't sound terrible. This'll help you practice sight reading (if ya happen to be into that.)

song library [is now under review]

2011-10-16T21:18:38-07:00

RandomSong

2011-10-16T21:18:01-07:00

Stephen Hazel suggested:
Once SheetMusic is killer enough, make a random song that's at your level and doesn't sound terrible. This'll help you practice sight reading (if ya happen to be into that.)

song library

2011-10-16T21:16:20-07:00

Stephen Hazel suggested:
I know a guy who's good at transcription - hopefully I'll find a way round copyright. Ok, or find a way TO FOLLOW copyright laws and be able to have killer pop songs that you can download and practice !! Not sure how feasible this is gonna be... We'll have ta seeee...

sheet music improvements - multiple rows (and multiple cols for pianonotes) [updated]

2011-10-16T21:13:49-07:00

time to make the sheet music truly usable. multiple rows, too. multiple columns for pianonotes window. and full scale printing.

Stephen Hazel said:

Also, PianoNotes stops scrolling. green "now" line is the only thing that moves. SheetMusic gets EVERYthing that PianoNotes has including redx, greendots. Going to a one window layout. SheetMusic will show layered (overlapping) notes like when an arpeggio stamps on a held chord. Might even do triplet durations and, sigh, gotta put in rests. Much to do. This'll take a while.

judgement [is now completed]

2011-10-16T21:11:20-07:00

toss out the current "3 :( s where you played slowest" auto [] ALL pause spots worse than halfsec auto-expand [] if 2nd spot < 2bars from 1st draggable [,] ? on 2nd+ play thru, if ok now toss [] and auto-log this progress in song's notes If still broke, hmmmmmm... prioritize the []s by #messups, average pause dur, and [] length so worst is practiced first

judgement [updated]

2011-10-16T21:11:07-07:00

Stephen Hazel said:

hopefully released next weekend?
done minus regression test !!

"find this riff" func [is now completed]

2011-10-16T21:09:29-07:00

play a riff, pianocheater hops to the point in time where that thing is.

"find this riff" func [updated]

2011-10-16T21:09:06-07:00

play a riff, pianocheater hops to the point in time where that thing is.

Stephen Hazel said:

done minus regression test - hopefully ready by end of this week?

"find this riff" func [updated]

2011-09-24T18:04:17-07:00

play a riff, pianocheater hops to the point in time where that thing is.

Stephen Hazel said:

part of sync2me mode.
making verrrrry significant progress on this !! :)))

step recording [is now planned]

2011-09-10T10:30:15-07:00

where hold pedal advances time, by 1/X'th note, etc think about timer, mode setting, pause state, etc, etc :/ since "takes" is problematic...:( have current dur unit (usu an 8th, move to 16ths, quarters, etc) current rec time pos on ntDn, remember note ntUp advances time pos and records note (regardless of timer) hold pedal down advances time giving note another increment of curr dur

judgement [is now started]

2011-09-10T10:29:51-07:00

sheet music improvements - multiple rows (and multiple cols for pianonotes) [is now planned]

2011-09-10T10:29:19-07:00

time to make the sheet music truly usable. multiple rows, too. multiple columns for pianonotes window. and full scale printing.

"find this riff" func [is now started]

2011-08-25T08:47:30-07:00

play a riff, pianocheater hops to the point in time where that thing is.

step recording

2011-08-07T09:25:37-07:00

Stephen Hazel suggested:
where hold pedal advances time, by 1/X'th note, etc think about timer, mode setting, pause state, etc, etc :/ since "takes" is problematic...:( have current dur unit (usu an 8th, move to 16ths, quarters, etc) current rec time pos on ntDn, remember note ntUp advances time pos and records note (regardless of timer) hold pedal down advances time giving note another increment of curr dur

sheet music improvements - multiple rows (and multiple cols for pianonotes)

2011-08-07T09:17:42-07:00

Stephen Hazel suggested:
time to make the sheet music truly usable. multiple rows, too. multiple columns for pianonotes window. and full scale printing.

arpeggiator [is now completed]

2011-08-07T09:14:53-07:00

arpegiator! go thru chords and build a new track with crazy arpeggios of those chords realtime-ish composition-ish stuphs

test [is now declined]

2011-07-06T14:41:59-07:00

test

judgement [is now planned]

2011-07-04T11:25:27-07:00

arpeggiator [is now started]

2011-07-01T11:32:02-07:00

arpegiator! go thru chords and build a new track with crazy arpeggios of those chords realtime-ish composition-ish stuphs

arpeggiator [updated]

2011-07-01T11:31:53-07:00

arpegiator! go thru chords and build a new track with crazy arpeggios of those chords realtime-ish composition-ish stuphs

Stephen Hazel said:

startin' this :) (And I'm NOT putting off docs - they'll be video-ized pretty soon:) Ok, maybe I'm putting them off a TEENY bit, but not much...

spiff wait4meEZ so recording is what you PLAYED [is now completed]

2011-07-01T11:30:25-07:00

and you can play at YOUR crazy tempo RECORD decr tempo changes for pauses and incr tempo changes for playing too fast if playing too fast scoot time up to note(s) you hit n calc/record incr tempo change look ahead in case you play notes too lightly/skip/miss some and sync time to then

spiff wait4meEZ so recording is what you PLAYED [updated]

2011-07-01T11:30:11-07:00

Stephen Hazel said:

gonna consider this done, since sync2me is out in the wild.
already got another entry for "find this riff" function which will complete full "record it live to my tempo" functionality

arpeggiator [updated]

2011-06-24T15:22:48-07:00

arpegiator! go thru chords and build a new track with crazy arpeggios of those chords realtime-ish composition-ish stuphs

Stephen Hazel said:

not sure how "real time" this'll be.
But I've got a good start with specs here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q0NbenUyec&feature=related

spiff wait4meEZ so recording is what you PLAYED [updated]

2011-06-24T15:21:06-07:00

Stephen Hazel said:

today's new release (6/24 Fri) has the start of Sync2Me in it :)
Not all the way done yet. I gotta make it handle "getting lost" better (when you mess up - finding where you're re-starting-out-at)
But that'll be comin up. And when it does, you'll be able to hop to any part of the song by just starting to play that part of the song ;)

spiff wait4meEZ so recording is what you PLAYED [updated]

2011-06-18T16:03:41-07:00

Stephen Hazel said:

this is coming along nicely. a lot of regression testin to do, but this is

SOOO COOOL

full scale lyrics - do em [is now completed]

2011-05-29T16:30:04-07:00

show lyrics in a 4 line scrolling and hilited black on white text display and make an EASY way to get em in.

full scale lyrics - do em [updated]

2011-05-29T16:30:04-07:00

show lyrics in a 4 line scrolling and hilited black on white text display and make an EASY way to get em in.

Stephen Hazel (admin) responded:

this'll be done tomorrow ;)

actually, they're done NOW.

full scale lyrics - do em [is now started]

2011-05-29T12:34:34-07:00

show lyrics in a 4 line scrolling and hilited black on white text display and make an EASY way to get em in.

full scale lyrics - do em [updated]

2011-05-29T12:34:34-07:00

show lyrics in a 4 line scrolling and hilited black on white text display and make an EASY way to get em in.

Stephen Hazel (admin) responded:

this'll be done tomorrow ;)

arpeggiator [is now planned]

2011-05-03T09:35:51-07:00

arpegiator! go thru chords and build a new track with crazy arpeggios of those chords realtime-ish composition-ish stuphs

optimize PianoNotes window so it doesn't chew cpu [is now completed]

2011-04-29T12:47:35-07:00

optimize PianoNotes window so it doesn't chew cpu [updated]

2011-04-29T12:47:24-07:00

Stephen Hazel said:

just keepin' track. this is done and in the new release (4/29)

Could you add a button for we can change to 88 Keys in the Practice Display? [is now completed]

2011-04-22T21:42:27-07:00

Hi Stephen: I'd like to know if you could add a button for we can change to 88 Keys in the Practice Display.

Could you add a button for we can change to 88 Keys in the Practice Display? [updated]

2011-04-22T21:42:14-07:00

Hi Stephen: I'd like to know if you could add a button for we can change to 88 Keys in the Practice Display.

Stephen Hazel said:

ok, FINALLY DONE !!
MidiConfiger has a new config dialog that'll let ya do this.
There's a new wrench toolbar button (farthest right).
There are a couple weird misc things to config in there.
If you UN check the "user minimum notes" it'll always display the full
range of keys.
Also, you can tweak how often the PianoNotes display refreshes to keep it from grinding your cpu too hard :/

I'm eventually going to move to PianoNotes that are static and do a "bar flip transition" just like sheet music does.

spiff wait4meEZ so recording is what you PLAYED [updated]

2011-04-19T19:39:54-07:00

Stephen Hazel said:

this will be called "Learn=Sync2Me"
it's coming along.
but it's driving me insaaaaaaaaaane :(

always play certain sounds on a particular device [is now completed]

2011-04-19T19:38:05-07:00

for example, I have 2 keyboards and the pc midi synth (audigy). Only one of these has a decent piano sound and it's not my default keyboard...:/ Somehow I need a way for one particular device to always do the piano sound, for example....

always play certain sounds on a particular device [updated]

2011-04-19T19:37:46-07:00

Stephen Hazel said:

well, i didn't setup a "always do piano on device X", but I did get the "swap a track to a new device droplist" complete.
(in the next release).
due out soon - I'm just gonna cover up the new sync2me mode (WHICH IS DRIVING ME INSAAAAANE) and make a release of everything else without that "inwork" thing...

SO DONE !!

add chords, fracture brackets, dynamics to sheetmusic display like pianonotes have [is now completed]

2011-03-25T16:07:41-07:00

oh, and hold pedal graph too... in general, make everything in pianonotes display ALSO display in sheetmusic.

add chords, fracture brackets, dynamics to sheetmusic display like pianonotes have [updated]

2011-03-25T16:07:28-07:00

oh, and hold pedal graph too... in general, make everything in pianonotes display ALSO display in sheetmusic.

Stephen Hazel said:

DONE!!
maybe someday it'll even show recording notes like pianonotes window.
maybe someday, pianonotes window won't scroll but swap in like sheetmusic window :)

Could you add a button for we can change to 88 Keys in the Practice Display? [updated]

2011-03-23T15:51:39-07:00

Hi Stephen: I'd like to know if you could add a button for we can change to 88 Keys in the Practice Display.

Stephen Hazel said:

this is getting closer, at least :/
MidiConfiger will have some display options:
display width: minimum needed or keys __ to __
also checks for show scale color, show chord position #s
(so you can show just plain white/black with red/blue outline - per hand)

but this is still probably 1.5 months out (-ISH, always -ISH :)