Can I use it with my MIDI keyboard?

[VarLad]

If so, how?

[PolyMeilex]

You can use it as midi-out, midi-in is still work in progress

midi-out devices should just appear in the list of outputs in main menu

[VarLad]

Okay I'm using the flatpak version by the way

I hope you don't mind two questions:

1. What are soundfonts? I don't think I notice a change if I download and select the "default.sf2" file
2. Any idea, by when can I use midi-input?

Thanks for responding!

[PolyMeilex]

What are soundfonts?

Sound font is a bank of instruments, flatpak version has default.sf2 buildin by default, if you want to have higher quality piano sounds or any other instruments just google soundfonts and choose ones that you think sound the best.

Any idea, by when can I use midi-input?

Not sure to be honest, I'm working on Neothesia completely alone, and I have other projects to work on too, so it depends on how much free time I have.

Could you describe your definition of midi input, are we talking about something like play-along mode where notes wait for midi input, or are we talking about just displaying key presses?

[VarLad]

Thanks! Would try out other soundfonts too!

If possible, actually both :sweat_smile: Like, I wanna be able to just play my midi keyboard without any file (while Neothesia displays the keys) and for a file, like you said, the notes wait for midi keyboard input! (a play-along mode to learn/practice)

Also, don't know how viable it is, but, maybe an option to separate the notes, so the user can practice/listen to both hands individually? :sweat_smile: No idea how viable that is

[PolyMeilex]

Thanks! Would try out other soundfonts too!

I think I didn't document it anywhere yet, so I will mention that it is possible to override default sound font by placing a file named default.sf2 in ~/.config/neothesia, in case you don't want to select it every time manually

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Like, I wanna be able to just play my midi keyboard without any file (while Neothesia displays the keys) and for a file, like you said, the notes wait for midi keyboard input! (a play-along mode to learn/practice)

Yeah, I had WIP build of that at some point, but I never ended up finalizing it. I will revisit this at some point.

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Also, don't know how viable it is, but, maybe an option to separate the notes, so the user can practice/listen to both hands individually?

That would be super easy to add, it is actually possible now, but it is not exposed in UI in any way, so it's just a matter of adding a UI for that.

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I will let you know if I end up doing some progress on this.

[VarLad]

Looking forward to that!

Again, thanks for the beautiful software! :smile:

[PolyMeilex]

Although not perfect, the POC got implemented in 0.0.15 already, so I'm closing this.