hi. i'm looking for a linux program that would ideally (i do realize i may be dreaming) allow to
1) interact with the program using the midi keyboard, not needing the computer's monitor right beside the midi keyboard 2) learn piano & rate me how well am i doing (how many notes i miss / get timing way off) 3) record (multi-track) / rewind / replay / edit my musical ideas explanations: 1) the thing is that lugging the piano to the monitor or the monitor to the piano is quite impractical, and i can't keep the piano with the monitor, plus having to work at the same time with both the piano's keys and computer keyboard keys / mouse can be quite awkward. 2) it would be great to have some software that can try to teach some theory (see "PS" below) and rate how well am i practicing. also something that would allow e.g. left / right / left+right hand grading, you can set own tempo, rewind, fast forward / back. 3) it would be nice to create and edit a multi-track recording right from the piano keyboard, i.e. quickly rewind, slow down, speed up, FF, change instrument, delete notes, move them back/ahead, mute track(s), record chords into a track (Yamaha has "performance assistant" feature, where instead of playing the key you press, it plays a key that is close but that is part of a chord in a recorded track). is there any software out there that has any of the features above? (i do know some shell and perl programming, so i wouldn't mind if i had to tinker a bit) thanks!! -- feebee another Q: MIDI can be used to send any *keys* you press out to the computer (and not send them into the keyboard itself). Is there a way to send the keypresses of other controls out? PS: is there a way to let computer display strings on Yamaha PSR-295's display? -- that could be used as menu for interacting with the computer? PS2: is there a way to use the PSR-295's on-board controls (dial, number pad, +/- keys, etc) to send data to the computer? E.g. during creation of piece, i would like to use the dial to emulate pitch-bend wheel (the PSR-295 doesn't have one). The dial would send values to computer (perhaps in realtime) and the computer would send pitch-bend events back to the keyboard to play. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html _______________________________________________ media_api mailing list [email protected] http://www.create.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/media_api
