QPiano 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 QPiano will follow YOUR playing. QPiano makes sight reading fun!
QPiano is a free (Open Source) program available from: https://github.com/glixx/QPiano/
Original work by Louis J. Barman can be found here: http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/
A huge thanks to him and to all the contributers.
To run QPiano 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 QPiano 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 for possible solutions.
Double Click on the EXE file of Windows installer for installation.
To run QPiano you need a MIDI Piano Keyboard and a MIDI-USB interface if the keyboard does not have a USB interface. (If you don't have a MIDI keyboard you can still try out QPiano using the computer's keyboard, 'x' is middle C).
To hear music from the computer you will need a General Midi compatible sound synthesizer. While there are many possible choices for the Mac (Timidity, FluidSynth or an external MIDI Synth), the easiest way is to use SimpleSynth, which can be obtained for free (MIT license) from: http://notahat.com/simplesynth
This must be started before QPiano, and also allows to load custom Soundfonts.
Double Click on the DMG file containing QPiano, then just drag the qpiano.app file wherever you wish (/Application folder is suggested).
To run QPiano 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 QPiano using the PC keyboard, 'x' is middle C - but a MIDI piano is recommend).
To hear music from the computer you will need a General Midi compatible sound synthesizer. While there are many possible choices for the Linux (Timidity, FluidSynth), the easiest way is to use Timidity. Timidity is BSD Unix is not workable, please use FluidSynth.
This must be started before QPiano, and also allows to load custom Soundfonts.
Install RPM, DEB, ARCH, TGZ etc. package.
Packages for Linux and BSD Unix are available in repositories of distributions here.
Packages for Linux (not for BSD Unix) are available in OBS repository:
Note: The packages provided with distributions may not exist or are out of date, in which case you will have to compile from the source code. However compiling from source is quite easy on Linux and BSD Unix.
To run QPiano 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 QPiano are available in doc/courses/*/ directories.
The MIDI input device is used to connect your piano keyboard to the PC. First ensure that your piano keyboard is connected up to the PC using a MIDI USB adaptor (or through a PC sound card). Once the QPiano 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 QPiano 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 while running QPiano so that the scrolling notes move smoothly across the screen.
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QPiano is fully copyrighted by the author and all rights are reserved.
QPiano 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.
QPiano 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/ or gplv3.txt.
The QPiano Documentation and Music are released under the Creative Commons License (CC-BY).
Download and uncompress the archive file below and then follow the instructions in the BUILD.md file.
As part of GNU General Public License the source code for QPiano is available from the GitHub site https://github.com/glixx/QPiano. See the BUILD.md for instructions on how to build the source code.
To get a backtrace, build QPiano with DEBUG option
type:
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug .
type:
gdb ./qpiano
then:
run
then:
bt
QPiano is community developing project since 2018. You're welcome with patches:
We have many issues always.
We are looking for musicians to make music for qpiano. It can be educational courses or other melodies: music sources. For more information look at README.md and faq.md.
We support Linux, BSD Unix and Windows platforms. We do not have macOS developers at the moment.