Hi,
Has anyone tested the McCarthy Music Illuminating Piano with Synthesia?
I am able to get a used one but was wondering if it would work with the Synthesia software? The McCarthy Music Illuminating Piano has the ability to light up different colors so I am also wondering if synthesia can trigger these different colors when playing?
No longer available but here is a picture of it ( I am buying a used one ) : https://www.zzounds.com/item--MCAILLUMPIANO
Link to McCarthy Music site: http://www.mccarthypiano.com/support/helparchive.aspx
Synthesia & McCarthy Music Piano
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If your keyboard has USB or MIDI ports, there is a tremendously high chance (>99%) it will work with Synthesia. See what you'll need on the keyboards page.
If your keyboard has USB or MIDI ports, there is a tremendously high chance (>99%) it will work with Synthesia. See what you'll need on the keyboards page.
Hmm, I vaguely recall being contacted by the McCarthy folks just as their Kickstarter was wrapping up... but I can't seem to be able to dredge up that email now.
Synthesia can emit extra information for lighted keyboards (which finger and/or which hand a note belongs to) but the device needs to be away of that scheme to take advantage of it. I don't believe the McCarthy had any special Synthesia-awareness, so while the lights will most likely work using one of the generic communication schemes, you almost certainly won't get any specific colors to indicate anything. (As a device that's already discontinued and out of support by a company that no longer exists, I'd try to steer clear of it, too.)
There are a few devices that use Synthesia's additional information. They're mostly separate light strips that you can add to the top of the keys after-the-fact, but I believe someone has reverse engineered the protocol used by NI's Komplete Kontrol to interface it with Synthesia's extended finger hint information.
Synthesia can emit extra information for lighted keyboards (which finger and/or which hand a note belongs to) but the device needs to be away of that scheme to take advantage of it. I don't believe the McCarthy had any special Synthesia-awareness, so while the lights will most likely work using one of the generic communication schemes, you almost certainly won't get any specific colors to indicate anything. (As a device that's already discontinued and out of support by a company that no longer exists, I'd try to steer clear of it, too.)
There are a few devices that use Synthesia's additional information. They're mostly separate light strips that you can add to the top of the keys after-the-fact, but I believe someone has reverse engineered the protocol used by NI's Komplete Kontrol to interface it with Synthesia's extended finger hint information.