It's nice you can do something in HTML5 that you could have done in Flash 10 years ago.
(Of course, I know, this is all according to standards and all. But still.)
HTML5 Piano
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#12Very neat! I feel like it needs support for "sustain" based on holding the key or on mouse down.
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#13are you generatimg the samples on each key press or when the piano loads? audio api or base65 url encoded wave files? I had made a synthesizer a while ago, but could never figure out how to keep the audio from clicking
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#14One of my friends coded up something like this, except you can play with the keys on your keyboard and it sounds like a piano. Very cool!
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#15One of my friends coded up something like this, except you can play with the keys on your keyboard and it sounds like a piano. Very cool!
That sounds exactly the same. What's the difference?
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#16;p;p;jlkh
Some days I wish I'd learned how to play the piano.
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#17It would be cool if there was a way to convert piano sheet music to QWERTY so you could play piano on a QWERTY piano (if a good QWERTY piano actually exists). Then everyone could play piano!
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#18Very nice! I made an HTML 5 multiplayer piano that lets you play with others in realtime: http://www.bandwithfriends.com Try it out!
Just fyi, ___ with friends is owned by zynga and you may or may not get UDRP'd/C&D'd or some other terrible thing
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#19Nice! Would be so cool to create a full 88 keys digital piano on a flat piece of glass with a touch layer. No edges, but for the well rounded toughened glass with see through. Simulated weighted keys using software, have modes (Strings is a must!), basic metronome, equalizer, controls and additional synth effects; and well on top of that a custom built browser to suit the window size of 58.8 x 12.8 x 22.2 inches! :D
It would be cool, and it may be ok for certain kinds of playing, but a subtle mordent, a tasteful triplet or a good arpeggio all depend on feedback from the keys. I think this is more than muscle memory and that "simulating" the sound will never do, a mordent in particular depends on a very mechanical relationship between adjacent keys rising and falling.
There's a reason most band pianists haul around electric pianos with heavy weighted keys rather than cheaper keyboards that contain the same sound synthesis engine.
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#20Nice! Would be so cool to create a full 88 keys digital piano on a flat piece of glass with a touch layer. No edges, but for the well rounded toughened glass with see through. Simulated weighted keys using software, have modes (Strings is a must!), basic metronome, equalizer, controls and additional synth effects; and well on top of that a custom built browser to suit the window size of 58.8 x 12.8 x 22.2 inches! :D
It would be cool, and it may be ok for certain kinds of playing, but a subtle mordent, a tasteful triplet or a good arpeggio all depend on feedback from the keys. I think this is more than muscle memory and that "simulating" the sound will never do, a mordent in particular depends on a very mechanical relationship between adjacent keys rising and falling. There's a reason most band pianists haul around electric piano…
They were trained on this type of gear, so they are most expressive with it. A lifetime of muscle memory can't be undone. What about children who are just beginning today? I'm looking forward to a new generation of musicians whose native instrument is the touch panel. It seems odd to interface with modern technology using an 18th century physical interface. Its neat to watch Deadmau5 "play" his setup. I can only image what children born today will be doing when they are in their 20's.