[LAU] Boost your Piano playing skills with PianoBooster 0.6.4

[Viktor Mastoridis]

This a lovely piece of software. A real pleasure to work with, especially
for us who try to learn piano on an irregular basis. Well done!


| Виктор Масторидис |
Viktor.Mastoridis.co.uk


2009/12/1 Louis B. <louisjbarman at googlemail.com>

> Version 0.6.4 of Piano Booster has just been released.
>
> Piano Booster is an Open Source program that helps with playing the piano
> and
> learning to sight read music. It's key feature is that it listens and
> follows
> what you are playing on the piano and waits for you to find and play the
> right
> notes. It helps you with this by giving you audio feed back. So if you play
> a
> wrong note then that note will have the Harpsichord sound but the right
> notes
> will have the Piano sound.
>
> For screen shots see:
>
> http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
>
> And for a video demonstration see:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGbfm8Tv-20
>
> This versions fixes a number of issues with CPU usage and timing
> accuracy and so
> I recommend that everyone upgrades to this version. Users of Intel
> graphic chips
> please see the note at the end of this posting.
>
> Detailed list of changes in this release 0.6.4 are:
> - 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 eg an EEE-701 (for Trev)
>
> NOTE: If you have Intel graphic chips in your computer or laptop then
> this causes
> severe problems when using Ubuntu 9.04. The problem is due the Intel
> graphic drivers
> drivers having very poor performance. They performed much worse than
> on the previous
> Ubuntu 8.10. The solution is to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10, PianoBooster
> works particularly
> well on this version.
>
>
> PianoBooster is licensed under GPL and runs on Linux, Windows and the Mac.
>
> PianoBooster is available from:   http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net.
>
>
> Louis B.
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