Re:Neothesia: GPU-accelerated open-source MIDI visualization...
by PolyMeilex on Saturday March 05, 2022 @02:11PM
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The main driving force for writing Neothesia was video creation, in contrast to Synthesia, Neotheisa has a CLI version that outputs video to a file directly.
Also, the open source nature of it allows anyone with a little know-how to create some fancy effects particles etc. depending on whatever you like.
I'm aware about wrong key placement, I was doing mathematically correct placement at some point, but at the end decided to just use the simplest possible thing. Don't worry, math correct keys will come back at some point!
Also, I think Synthesia made a business out of producing Youtube videos of the Synthesia visualization. If there was a free way to produce this kind of videos many Youtubers would be grateful.
EDIT: Seems I'm wrong with the above paragraph. I thought to remember that you had to pay for the rights to use the visualization on Youtube, but that is not the case. The conditions[3] look quite fair to me.
One small remark regarding your visualization: From the screenshot it looks as if the keyboard shows the black keys centered around the gap between the white keys. This is not how a real keyboard looks like. Better explained than I ever could in a thread[2] from a few weeks ago.
[1] Another software we use is PianoJacq. For learning and practicing it is even better suited than Synthesia.
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29943081
[3] https://www.synthesiagame.com/Video