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Re:Touch Pianist on Saturday September 09, 2023 @01:05PM (#37447573)
As a professional pianist that's spent the past couple of years obsessing over questions of tempo, breath, phrasing, movement and musicality, this app really tickles my fancy.

Some casual observations:

- As someone who has delved a little in DAWs and working with MIDI, one thing that struck me is when controlling velocity with on a physical, linear scale, exactly how little extra velocity is needed to voice a melody properly. For example, playing Moonlight on my phone, I play the opening notes as quietly as possible and voice the melody by playing a few bare "millimetres" more to voice it.

- It has really forced me to know the music in a different fashion, as a single, additive rhythm as opposed two hands with two independent rhythms. For example, the first few bars when the melody enters in Moonlight sonata: I wasn't sure if I keep the fidelity of the dotted-eighth rhythms verses the triple eighths, or if I turn it into essential a sextuplet.

- I found that some quicker figures, such as the opening of Mozart's "Alla turca" are best achieved by using the actual fingering I would use in the original. At a certain speed, in order to achieve the rhythmic precision required, I had to use piano technique.... on my phone screen.

Re:Caught by MuseScore's Dark Patterns on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @08:43AM (#37133265)
It's a cat and mouse game, and currently the ball is in LibreScore's court. This message is dated Aug 8.

https://discord.com/channels/774491656643674122/776384156602...

> MuseScore has patched the LibreScore App. The server will be down for the foreseeable future until I find a solution (possibly by the end of August). In the meantime you can download MIDI, MP3, and PDF using the browser extension.

Re:OpenPipes Revolutionizes the DIY Pipe Organs on Friday July 28, 2023 @10:51AM (#36907636)
Sorry, I wasn't totally clear in my question... I was looking for your opinion on OrganTeq!
Re:OpenPipes Revolutionizes the DIY Pipe Organs on Friday July 28, 2023 @08:01AM (#36905639)
I've been a user of PianoTeq for a bit now, and I'm curious if you have an opinion on it, relative to other organ VSTs out there...