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keycon

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keyboardconnect.com -- Video conferencing designed for remote piano lessons

I'm reachable at jeremy@keyboardconnect.com

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    This article says that our limited time on Earth encourages us to be ourselves. That our eventual death is necessary for our ambitions, desires, and accomplishments (which then pro…

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    Comment #39335968

    I really appreciate the feedback, Bewelge, these ideas are all very helpful to me! I'll be making changes based on each one. I haven't measured the latency directly. But, I did try…

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    Comment #39335921

    Excellent suggestions, these ideas ring true to me. I'm going to start exploring this direction for growing the platform. Thank you very much!

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    Comment #39335876

    Ah, great point--I'm adding that to my to-do as another setup option for users. Thank you!

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    Comment #39335864

    Great suggestion! Thank you very much. I'll definitely keep this in mind when I make a proper demo video

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    Comment #39335849

    Piano tutors who want to give an engaging remote lesson will want the ability to show themselves playing as well as what notes they're playing. This requires expensive equipment an…

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    Comment #39335782

    Thanks! Oh yeah I encourage you to mess around with it, especially if you have any interest in music production/education

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    Comment #39335773

    Appreciate it castles, thank you!

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    Comment #39335752

    Thank you! :D

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    Comment #39335747

    It's meant for laptop or desktop at this time, but I will 100% look into adapting it for an iPad. I think the challenge might be connecting a midi device to it though. Keyboard Con…

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    Comment #39335717

    Good point! Thank you

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    Comment #39335701

    Hey, thanks! I'm a big fan of pianojacq!

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    Comment #39332361

    Wrote it myself. It's a javascript object that loads in all the piano sounds and manages the audiocontext. When the MIDI note/velocity/pedal state updates, a method on the object i…

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    Comment #39332219

    Appreciate it! I'd like to hear how it works out for you! I'm reachable at jeremy@keyboardconnect.com

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    Comment #39332030

    I'll get to work on a video demo! The app has a sort of piano VSTI running in the browser, so what you hear will be reliably reproduced on the peer side.

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    Comment #39332017

    Thank you! I'll definitely put together a video demo before requiring logging in. Showing live MIDI during a call sidesteps the challenge of showing and recording both yourself pla…

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    Comment #39332003

    Yes, it's supposed to, (as it does in the app) but I was a bit lazy hacking together that "demo" from stock footage and didn't animate the keys.

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    Comment #39331989

    Thank you for the response. You're right, it didn't sit well with me putting a required log in between the landing page and the app. So I'll work on a more comprehensive video demo…

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    Comment #39331825

    Ah, appreciate it. I totally spaced on cleaning up the landing page for mobile!

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    Show HN: A platform for remote piano lessons based on the Web MIDI API

    I'm building a video conferencing app designed to facilitate better remote piano lessons. My hope is to solve a lot of the challenges piano tutors and new students deal with when t…