First-time post in the forum. I just recently discovered this gem, quite a cool learning program and game indeed

Late last year I released a custom soundfont of mine, "¥Weeds¥ General MIDI SoundFont v3.0". It has received rave reviews from most of the folks who have tried it out. Among other things, it includes one of the best grand piano, pipe organ, and harpsichord instruments in most any soundfont that you've ever heard... perfect for Synthesia

Lastly, quite a while back Twelve Tone Systems granted permission to freely distribute the full retail installation of Cakewalk Professional v3.01... yeah, it's an oldie, but an extremely capable MIDI sequencer and editor


Even as old as it is (circa 1995), AFAIK it runs fine under Windows Vista and Windows 7. I've been using that as my primary MIDI sequencer since 1995 for all of my music (de)composing <grin>, and currently run it under Windows XP Pro SP3 with no problem at all.
Anyways, just figured I'd post a "Hello", as well as a few tidbits that you might find handy for use with Synthesia

(edit) P.S. Here's an MP3 of the piano included with ¥Weeds¥ General MIDI SoundFont v3.0 in action, a little (mostly improvised) thing of mine from years ago, "Ramblings of a Non-Pianist (Op. 2)"... yeah, I know, strange song name <grin>.