![]() ![]() It's more than two years old and the sheet music display has progressed somewhat. You were probably watching the video on the website. The note display of Synthesia looks a lot like the one in Home Concert Xtreme, it has the measure being played light up in blue. So there's no Mac version of MIDI Illustrator, too bad. Some software makes me cranky, and some makes me happy, and over time I've found it penny-wise/pound-foolish when I've failed to choose the happy kind It may just boil down to issues of user-experience & taste, which determine why I choose Mac over Windows, Sibelius over Finale, etc even when these choices cost quite a bit more. OTOH, being inside the software of HCE feels clean, bright, and un-cluttered, and the program does everything I want it to without my needing to mess around with configurations, documentation, etc. Maybe I'm put off my Synesthesia's focus on falling-lines mode, which strikes me as a dumb way to learn music, or maybe I'm put off by its graphical look and feel, but it's not a program I enjoy being inside, if that makes any sense. I like that Home Conxert Xtreme has very pretty notation, with an option to make the attractive notation quite large, all of which makes it much easier on my middle aged eyes (I'm the one who started the "Do you need piano glasses?" thread a while back ). Synesthesia's demo doesn't let you try the scored option, and I can't find a video of it on the web, just a screen shot in which the notation looks kind of spindly and hard to read. MIDI Illustrator looks pretty cool, and would be awfully tempting for me if i were on a Windows system, but I've a Mac user (Does anyone know if WINE can handle MIDI? I seem to vaguely remember that it doesn't, but I could be wrong or outdated.) There are 3 modes: you can make the score wait for you to play correctly, you can make it accompany at your playing speed and ignore your mistakes (as in a performance), or you can make it scroll along at a fixed pace where you need to keep up with it's predetermined speed (as in sight reading). Just wondering if you can have the music progress at af fixed speed (beats per minute.) Do you know if that option is available? It must be though. ![]() This seems to fit those guidelines).ĮTA: Here's the company's page for the software, and here's a youtube demo. (btw, I am a Mac user, and in general am willing to pay a bit more for attractively-styled, well-behaved software that does what i want it to without any fuss or muss. So have you tried this software? Did you continue to enjoy it? Or did the luster wear off fast? So this seems to be the sort of computer/piano toy that I tend to enjoy, and so far the demo has energized me enough to pull me out of this drug-induced torpor. I've spent happy hours interacting with Practica Musica, as well as all the various web-based music theory software. I've been a computer geek for ages and ages (was a computer science major decades ago), and I very much enjoy playing around with educational software. I'm having a bad piano slump due to soporific side effects from a migraine-preventative medication I'm trying out, and I'm hoping this could be an early birthday present that might kick-start me out of this piano funk. I'm not so much asking opinions on its pedagogical merits (even I see some possible issues there), so much as whether current/past users have continued to enjoy playing around with it. I'm curious if others have tried it, and whether it's been something they've continued to enjoy playing with. I've been playing with the demo for Home Concert Xtreme, and I'm considering it as my big birthday present for this year.
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