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- INTRODUCTION
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- Piano Booster is a MIDI file player that displays the musical notes AND teaches you how to
- play the piano. You can play along to any track in the midi file and PianoBooster will
- follow YOUR playing. PianoBooster makes sight reading fun!
- Piano Booster is a free (Open Source) program available from:
- <http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/>
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- REQUIREMENTS
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- To run Piano Booster you need a MIDI Piano Keyboard and a MIDI interface for the PC. (If you
- don't have a MIDI keyboard you can still try out PianoBooster using the PC keyboard, 'x' is
- middle C -- but a MIDI piano is recommend).
- To hear the music you will need a General Midi compatible sound synthesizer. Unfortunately
- the "Microsoft GS Wavetable software synthesizer" that comes with Windows XP introduces an
- unacceptable delay (latency) between pressing a note and hearing the sound. For this reason
- the use of "Microsoft GS Wavetable software synthesizer" is not recommend. Please see the
- forum section of the PianoBooster website for possible solutions.
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- MIDI FILES
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- To run PianoBooster you will need some Midi files preferably with right and left piano
- parts on channels 4 and 3. Some high quality demo MIDI files that are compatible with
- PianoBooster are available on the PianoBooster download page see:
- <http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/download.html>
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- INSTRUCTIONS
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- Once the Piano Booster application starts up you must first setup the midi input and midi
- output interface from the Setup menu. Next open a midi file ".mid" or a karaoke ".kar" file
- using File/Open from the Piano Booster menu. Now choose the skill level, if you want to
- just listen to the midi music -- select 'listen', to play along with a midi keyboard with
- the music following your playing -- select 'follow you'. Finally click on the Play icon to
- start.
- It is recommended that you shut down all other programs whilst running Piano Booster so that
- the scrolling notes move smoothly across the screen.
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- LICENSE
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- Piano Booster is fully copyrighted by the author and all rights are reserved.
- PianoBooster is free software (Open Source software): you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
- Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- PianoBooster is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
- without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
- See the GNU General Public License in the file "gplv3.txt" or from the web site
- <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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- SOURCE CODE
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- As part of GNU General Public License the source code for PianoBooster is available from
- the Source Forge site <http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/>
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