![]() ![]() ![]() You then have to do all kinds of tricks to even begin to approach what the score looked originally. Midi is 'lossy' in the sense that it flattens a bunch of knowledge about how a piece is to be rendered into note-on/note-off pairs. There are quite a few ways in which this can be improved further, there is a long list of 'todo's' where I basically have worked out how to make the improvement but I have not yet gotten around to actually implementing it. So, the midi->score conversion is indeed one of the harder parts, I spent a lot of time on that and I'm not yet satisfied with the results. For example, if you're playing at a given pace, miss, stop and repeat a bar, the app should detect that automatically instead of just carrying on expecting you to keep playing. The app really depends on you following the score exactly and linearly. if a chord is not arpeggiated in the midi file, you won't be able to move forward by arpeggiating. Not enough wiggle room when playing, e.g. randomly a double flat D will appear instead of a C, even though the score has a C, Musescore interprets the midi as a C, etc). The sharps and flats are generally off (e.g. The conversion from MIDI to a readable score is very poor compared to, say, Musescore. Synthesia is almost great but it has a lot of small shortcomings which add up to a bad user experience, for example: I do fairly well reading sheet music but the first time deciphering it can be a bit tedious, using the app speeds this up considerably for me. It's very nice to be able to practice one hand separately while having the app play the other hand. It lets you practice and grades you depending on how close you're sticking to the score. The primary mode of display is "Guitar Hero" style (it's hard to describe just look at this video to get an idea) but it's possible to display the sheet music. On the off-chance that this will inspire the article's author for their development, or simply for the curious, this has been my experience with it: I've been using Synthesia on an iPad, which also lets you take an arbitrary MIDI file and practice it. It's funny, I've had almost the same experience: decided to start playing again during Covid, and wanted to use the midi port to gamify things a bit.
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