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Hold down shift.
Ah, nice. I still can't get any lower than the bottom row, though.
hold down ctrl
Multi-player piano
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#22Can I set up a private session with only my friends?
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#23Smule's launch-era iPad piano app (maybe it was called 'Magic Piano'?) had a similar feature, but it was only you and one other anonymous person. I thought that was a lot more effective, since if the two of you could figure out how to coordinate without speaking/chatting you could have a really fantastic jam; the massive number of people on this makes it hard to create anything that doesn't resemble complete cacophony.
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#24Very neat, but my ears do not thank you...
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#25Didn't work for me in Safari; I had to open Chrome to see any key presses.
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#26I really don't understand why every simple demo of websockets makes it to the front page. Multi-player paint, multi-player piano, multi-player chord riffs... It's all just small variations on the same technology. I don't really see what valuable lesson we're supposed to take away from this when a simple websockets demo makes it to the front page again and again.
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#27Are there any good tutorials that provide an implementation walkthrough of this kind of app?
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#28This is actually pretty fascinating. People are making rooms for specific songs (like rickrolling), and people are generally trying to play the requested songs in each of the rooms :)
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#29It seems like there’s a lot of room for expansion in terms of music software and games. Off the top of my head: Allow musicians to attach their instruments to the computer and play duets with friends or strangers. Use software to practice a song and analyze where you make the most mistakes. Make a game out of it – sight reading competitions, short duets, music battles (ala http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-FdX1D5hVg). Vote performances up and down…
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#30This is the coolest thing. Another feature request: Chat! So that we can coordinate with each other to play a song!
Nah — that'd be too easy. It's more interesting to see how people learn to communicate solely through the keyboard.
Besides, actually attempting to perform "for real" over the Internet would quickly lead to latency-induced frustration — WLAN MIDI is bad enough!