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This is an impressive amount of work, especially considering how much modification had to be done to the solenoids. For me, the best part was the link to the P

This is an impressive amount of work, especially considering how much modification had to be done to the solenoids. For me, the best part was the link to the PianoBooster software http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/ http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/ That software looks like a great way to help newbies overcome the early hump in learning to play the piano.

jacquesm 6y ago
Pianobooster is awesome, it is the most patient piano teacher you can imagine. I've modified it a bit to give me more statistics and to more intelligently split left / right hand parts. The original tends to assign notes based on a pretty rigid rule and I changed it so it uses some geometrical clues about what handspan you can expect to better assign the notes to the individual hands.
- bluGill 6y ago
  Can you open a pull request at https://github.com/captnfab/Piano https://github.com/captnfab/Piano Booster someone has given the project new life in the past year (it was dead for about 5)
  - jacquesm 6y ago
    Ah cool. I tried to reach the original author but he did not respond. Thank you for the pointer. Pianobooster has an interesting internal architecture, it works completely in 'streaming' fashion which makes it quite hard to operate on the input files, you can't really look ahead because the whole file is never entirely in memory. It took me a while to get my head wrapped around that, it is so completely different from how I would have approached that particular problem. I can see some advantages to this way of doing things. Another interesting point is that it has a lot of the business logic in two places, one where it deals with the audio part of things and one where it deals with the visual part. These then sync up again at the currently playing note(s). Anyway, regardless, it is an awesome project and I'm super happy to see that someone has taken up the mantle.
  - PostThisTooFast 6y ago
    That link doesn’t work... gotta take the space out before “booster”

jacquesm 6y ago

Pianobooster is awesome, it is the most patient piano teacher you can imagine. I've modified it a bit to give me more statistics and to more intelligently split left / right hand parts. The original tends to assign notes based on a pretty rigid rule and I changed it so it uses some geometrical clues about what handspan you can expect to better assign the notes to the individual hands.

bluGill 6y ago
Can you open a pull request at https://github.com/captnfab/Piano https://github.com/captnfab/Piano Booster someone has given the project new life in the past year (it was dead for about 5)
- jacquesm 6y ago
  Ah cool. I tried to reach the original author but he did not respond. Thank you for the pointer. Pianobooster has an interesting internal architecture, it works completely in 'streaming' fashion which makes it quite hard to operate on the input files, you can't really look ahead because the whole file is never entirely in memory. It took me a while to get my head wrapped around that, it is so completely different from how I would have approached that particular problem. I can see some advantages to this way of doing things. Another interesting point is that it has a lot of the business logic in two places, one where it deals with the audio part of things and one where it deals with the visual part. These then sync up again at the currently playing note(s). Anyway, regardless, it is an awesome project and I'm super happy to see that someone has taken up the mantle.
- PostThisTooFast 6y ago
  That link doesn’t work... gotta take the space out before “booster”