This program lets you play piano using your computer's keyboard. Although its interface seems simple, the application has a lot of functions. Of course, the main one is the ability of playing piano notes. This is done using the MIDI capabilities of your computer's sound card. You can set the program to play different types of piano, such as, Acoustic Grand Piano, Honky Tonks, Electric, and more. Also, the program can emulate other instruments, such as electric guitar, bass, harpsicord, church organ, and even other non-musical sounds, for example, bird tweets, helicopter noises, applauses, and gunshots. This makes the program very versatile.
It is also possible to control different sound aspects of the instrument. For example, you can modify the chorus depth, tremolo, phaser, and other features, thus creating exactly the sound you look for.
You can also upload SoundFont files, which have pre-recorded music tunes with specific characteristics. For example, a SoundFont file may have a certain amount of flanger, distort, chorus and other effects to produce a very characteristic sound.
As I've said, the interface of the program seems simple, but you can customize it in several ways. It is possible to set your default language by choosing among ten different tongues, such as Spanish, German, French and others. Also, you can show or hide the notes of each key and even "paint" them in different colors.
In general, it is a good program that will help you play and compose music pieces. And the best part is that it's absolutely free.
v0.5 [Jul 27, 2012]
* RtMidi 1.0.15 patched by Gilles Filippini enabling
several MIDI drivers to be compiled at once, and allowing the user to select
one at runtime.
* Fixed Bug #3507732. Transpose does not update correctly the octave in note
name.
* Fixed Bug #3503768. Removing the shortcut for an action having default
shortcut keys, the change is not saved upon exit, so the shortcut appears
again the next execution.
* Fixed Bug #3502659. Saved preferences not set correctly.
* New implementation of the Network MIDI driver (UDP multicast).
* MIDI channel state enforcement (RFE #3517750)
* MIDI IN Omni mode.
* Independently enable/disable note input using keyboard, mouse, and touch
screen.
* Note highlight color policies (single, double, one color for each MIDI
channel, one color for each grade in the chromatic scale). Color palettes
editor dialog. Option to show a colorized scale.
* Allow XML comments within keyboard map files.
