So when first learning a piece, I zoom out all the way and put it on pause (thank you for the new space-bar pause feature, it is a welcome change from trying to slow it down to zero and missing my intended start point - especially since I am on a very slow computer that can't keep up).
From pause, I can then play and learn the notes, then I un-pause, let it scroll forward one screen, and then learn and play those notes, etc. It would be fabulous if the program would remember the zoom level, so that I didn't have to zoom out every time I load a new song. Also, how about a loop feature, or at least an easier way to re-play the current song rather than going back to the start and re-selecting the tracks? (or maybe there already is and I can't find it).
The new pause feature makes this much easier, but it would be fabulous to have a skip-to-next-screen feature, like turning the page of a book I could see the next, static chunk, learn it, and then carry on, etc.
If this is too difficult, maybe just the ability to print the song so I can do this process manually? Right now I'm taking screen captures zoomed-out as far as I can go and using those, but it would be fabulous to have the features in the program.
Thanks for making a great program, nothing else like it that I can find and I use it almost every day. Couldn't play piano without it!
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So, it should be saving zoom level on a per-song basis. Do you mean there should be a default zoom for new songs the game has never seen before?
And regarding jumping between "pages", fast-forward can kind of approximate that. It will (for now) jump 3 seconds of song time based on the current speed multiplier. So, at 10% speed, pressing fast-forward will skip ahead 0.3 seconds, but at 400% speed it skips ahead 12 seconds.
The game allows you to zoom out to see a maximum of 10 seconds at a time, so if you set your song speed to 300-330% or so, you would be scrolling by a little less than a page at a time, which would let you sew together the screen captures pretty easily and with little waste.
Otherwise, rendering a score down to an image file is something I hadn't considered. I didn't really imagine the scrolling note view would be very useful in a static format. At that point, sheet music has the advantage because note durations are implied in the notation. It's something I might be able to get to eventually, but right now I'm still trying to focus on the core gameplay and experience.
And regarding jumping between "pages", fast-forward can kind of approximate that. It will (for now) jump 3 seconds of song time based on the current speed multiplier. So, at 10% speed, pressing fast-forward will skip ahead 0.3 seconds, but at 400% speed it skips ahead 12 seconds.
The game allows you to zoom out to see a maximum of 10 seconds at a time, so if you set your song speed to 300-330% or so, you would be scrolling by a little less than a page at a time, which would let you sew together the screen captures pretty easily and with little waste.
Otherwise, rendering a score down to an image file is something I hadn't considered. I didn't really imagine the scrolling note view would be very useful in a static format. At that point, sheet music has the advantage because note durations are implied in the notation. It's something I might be able to get to eventually, but right now I'm still trying to focus on the core gameplay and experience.
Speaking of printing... Since we're so close to having the sheet music feature fully released, maybe you could concider making synthesia capable of printing the sheet music it interprets from a song in perhaps a .jpg format? I think this would be a tremendous benifit to people like me.
Right now I have a serious dependancy on Synthesia to play anything. I imagine that people who learn to play strictly from sheet music also become somewhat dependant. Without Synthesia in front of me, I'm hopeless, even if I've learned a piece fairly well with it.
I am very excited about the prospect of having sheet music to work with soon, and I fully intend to learn to read it using Synthesia. The only problem is that I expect it might be quite difficult to aquire sheet music that matches the midi files... So even if I can get "portable" sheet music - the old fassioned paper kind, it won't do me a whole lot of good at this stage if it's not exactly what I learned. At least that will be so until I can start to sight read sheet, instead of using it as kind of a reminder of what comes next.
Thanks!
Right now I have a serious dependancy on Synthesia to play anything. I imagine that people who learn to play strictly from sheet music also become somewhat dependant. Without Synthesia in front of me, I'm hopeless, even if I've learned a piece fairly well with it.
I am very excited about the prospect of having sheet music to work with soon, and I fully intend to learn to read it using Synthesia. The only problem is that I expect it might be quite difficult to aquire sheet music that matches the midi files... So even if I can get "portable" sheet music - the old fassioned paper kind, it won't do me a whole lot of good at this stage if it's not exactly what I learned. At least that will be so until I can start to sight read sheet, instead of using it as kind of a reminder of what comes next.
Thanks!
~DOMINUS VOBISCUM~
hmm... saving out the sheet music, huh?
And here I just got it to the point where I felt it was barely good enough to let out what is essentially a first draft. I suppose it could be done though and without too much difficulty.
I guess this is one of the areas that I'm excited to see how the upcoming user-feature-voting thing will turn out. People will either recognize that the sheet music has a pretty long way to go and vote those types of improvements up the list, or you guys might like it a lot more than I think you will, and decide it's so good you'd like to have saved versions of it in images. (It's exactly those types of questions I think the voting will answer better than I ever could.)
Still, I just added it to my list along-side the saving of the falling-note display item.
And here I just got it to the point where I felt it was barely good enough to let out what is essentially a first draft. I suppose it could be done though and without too much difficulty.
I guess this is one of the areas that I'm excited to see how the upcoming user-feature-voting thing will turn out. People will either recognize that the sheet music has a pretty long way to go and vote those types of improvements up the list, or you guys might like it a lot more than I think you will, and decide it's so good you'd like to have saved versions of it in images. (It's exactly those types of questions I think the voting will answer better than I ever could.)
Still, I just added it to my list along-side the saving of the falling-note display item.