piano related entries http://www.nimisis.com/tags/piano copyright 2007 Here's the ultimate portable piano keyboard! 61 soft rubber keys, 16 keys can be used at once and it can be connected to a PC. With a jack for headphones or amp, recording functionality and demo songs, it's a winner!

Tags: piano, gadget]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/five_octave_piano_in_your_pocket Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:54:18 GMT homebrew projects a piece of software that could take midi files of piano pieces and highlight the piano keys being played on a keyboard during playback. It would be a kind of cheat for learning the piano.

Thankfully there's no need! I found this great little application that does the job handsomely. It's called MidiPiano and it's free. In fact the source code is available for those who want to tweak it.

The great thing about midi files is that unlike mp3s there's much less fuss over copyright and there are lots of databases online from which midi music files can be downloaded for free. Midi music is of much lower quality than mp3 but that's because it encodes individual notes. And it's because of its format that it can be replayed easily the way it is in this app. Have a go! You'll probably have to lug your piano keyboard in front of your monitor (or vice versa), but surely that's a small price to pay to become a budding pianist!

Tags: piano, software, hack, midi]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/learn_the_piano_hack Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:38:46 GMT