PianoBooster is a free and open source, fun way of playing along with a musical accompaniment and at the same time learning the basics of reading musical notation.
The difference between playing along to a CD or a standard midi file is that PianoBooster listens and follows what you are playing on a midi piano keyboard.
Here are some key features of "Piano Booster":
· Piano Booster follows your playing when playing along to a musical accompaniment. (If you stop then so does the music).
· Play a single hand and Piano Booster will play the other hand in time with you (and will also play the violins, the bass, the drums etc. in time with you).
· Change the speed of playback to match your playing ability.
· Transpose +/- 12 semitones without stopping the play back.
· Change the Key Signature of the piece.
· Plays any standard midi or kar file.
· Play along to any instrument in the midi file.
· Adjust the volume of the current part or the volume your piano part.
· See the accuracy of you playing.
· Change the start bar to start playing from any bar in the music. The repeat bars allows you to practice just a few difficult bars continuously.
· Timing markers are white crosses that are drawn over each note and show if you are playing ahead or behind the beat.
· A different instrument sound is used for the right and wrong notes that you play.
Requirements:
· MIDI Piano Keyboard
· MIDI-USB interface
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Added note names for beginners (to be used with a piano key note labels)
· Added assignable left and right midi channels.
· Improved MIDI timing accuracy.
· Greatly reduced the memory footprint.
· Reduced the CPU load.
· Reduced the screen flicker (recommend setting the screen refresh rate to 60Hz
· and for Intel Graphic chips updating the drivers).
· Added keyboard short-cuts. These are - speed up/down, play from start,
· play/pause, next previous song, left right both hands.
· Remembers the song settings in a configuration file called "pb.cfg".
· these are the midi channels, speed, left right or both hands.
· Now works well Ubuntu 9.10 and Intel graphic chips.
· (Those with Ubuntu 9.04 and Intel should upgrade to 9.10 and this version)
· Fixed various start up issues.
· Now correctly notates repeated accidentals that occur in a single bar.
· Added the option to display courtesy accidentals.
· Added a simple help page.
· Added an installer for windows.
· `make install` now works on Linux.
· Now works with small screens ...
