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by keycon 9mo ago
This article says that our limited time on Earth encourages us to be ourselves. That our eventual death is necessary for our ambitions, desires, and accomplishments (which then produce a concept of Self) and that those things are what make
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by keycon 3y ago
I really appreciate the feedback, Bewelge, these ideas are all very helpful to me! I'll be making changes based on each one. I haven't measured the latency directly. But, I did try this with my sister who lives across the US while
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by keycon 3y ago
Excellent suggestions, these ideas ring true to me. I'm going to start exploring this direction for growing the platform. Thank you very much!
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by keycon 3y ago
Ah, great point--I'm adding that to my to-do as another setup option for users. Thank you!
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by keycon 3y ago
Great suggestion! Thank you very much. I'll definitely keep this in mind when I make a proper demo video
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by keycon 3y ago
Piano tutors who want to give an engaging remote lesson will want the ability to show themselves playing as well as what notes they're playing. This requires expensive equipment and technical knowledge to set up using Skype/Zoom.
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by keycon 3y ago
Thanks! Oh yeah I encourage you to mess around with it, especially if you have any interest in music production/education
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by keycon 3y ago
Appreciate it castles, thank you!
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by keycon 3y ago
Thank you! :D
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by keycon 3y ago
It's meant for laptop or desktop at this time, but I will 100% look into adapting it for an iPad. I think the challenge might be connecting a midi device to it though. Keyboard Connect is still in an early stage, so we don't suppo
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by keycon 3y ago
Good point! Thank you
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by keycon 3y ago
Hey, thanks! I'm a big fan of pianojacq!
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by keycon 3y ago
Wrote it myself. It's a javascript object that loads in all the piano sounds and manages the audiocontext. When the MIDI note/velocity/pedal state updates, a method on the object is called to play the sound.
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by keycon 3y ago
Appreciate it! I'd like to hear how it works out for you! I'm reachable at jeremy@keyboardconnect.com
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by keycon 3y ago
I'll get to work on a video demo! The app has a sort of piano VSTI running in the browser, so what you hear will be reliably reproduced on the peer side.
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by keycon 3y ago
Thank you! I'll definitely put together a video demo before requiring logging in. Showing live MIDI during a call sidesteps the challenge of showing and recording both yourself playing and what notes you're playing. Also, because
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by keycon 3y ago
Yes, it's supposed to, (as it does in the app) but I was a bit lazy hacking together that "demo" from stock footage and didn't animate the keys.
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by keycon 3y ago
Thank you for the response. You're right, it didn't sit well with me putting a required log in between the landing page and the app. So I'll work on a more comprehensive video demo and make it accessible before signing up.
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by keycon 3y ago
Ah, appreciate it. I totally spaced on cleaning up the landing page for mobile!
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Show HN: A platform for remote piano lessons based on the Web MIDI API(keyboardconnect.com)
224 points by keycon 3y ago|103 comments