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Feeling the beat in PianoNinja
As I play around with PianoNinja, I’ve noticed so far that it’s fairly easy to get out of sync with the notes that I’m supposed to be playing. I tend to speed up when playing slowly, for example. (You...
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Today, I tried to enable what I talked about in my last post about PianoNinja. I was able to get the MIDI Note OFF events to be reflected in each note’s visible duration: how long it remains stationary...
View ArticlePianoNinja Video #6: Note OFF events visualized
I haven’t made any progress since yesterday’s report, but I did finally track down our camera. This video shows what I was talking about yesterday: the MIDI Note OFF events are now visible. Video #6:...
View ArticlePianoNinja Video #7: Notation-consistent note releases
Okay, this post is just to complete the thought I’ve been exploring over the last couple of posts. I wasn’t up for much heavy thinking tonight, so I decided to just download a free MIDI editor and...
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Ninja pain
This is how the PianoNinja is feeling tonight after suffering a difficult blow: We had a little setback involving lost code. Ironically, this happened when I was trying to set up version control to...
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MNMA -> The Music Notation Project
Since I recently posted about the MNMA (Music Notation Modernization Association), including its mission statement, it seems appropriate to forward on the announcement that the MNMA has disbanded and a...
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6-6 version of Klavarskribo
There has been some recent discussion in the MNMA forum about an alternative version of Klavarskribo that its inventor (Cornelis Pot) had designed for chromatic, 6-6 keyboards (i.e. keyboards having 6...
View ArticleManual symmetry
A few weeks ago, I was sitting at the piano and contemplating what I had been learning about the Janko keyboard. I was thinking about all the different scale patterns on the traditional piano keyboard...
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Keyboard coloring variations
A common way to help users orient themselves on the chromatic Janko keyboard is to color some of the keys black, corresponding to the black keys on the traditional diatonic piano keyboard. (The actual...
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Some updates
Short blog post, in bullet points: I’m attending SXSW Interactive very soon. PianoNinja was accepted as a semi-finalist in the ScreenBurn Game Design Competition! If my presentation is selected as a...
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