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It's a very cool little game! One suggestion: could you make it so you can noodle around on the keyboard without submitting the answer and then once you've worked it out, have a submission mode? Right now, it's frustrating that if you enter a wrong note, it shows a message, so you can't experiment on the keyboard to try to work it out.


Thanks everyone for the feedback! I've added a bunch of new updates, just thought I would consolidate to this message since its pinned near the top.

*Changes*

- Ableton keyboard layout for ladidahh also thanks for a user name that I had to type about four times because of my phone's autocorrect! :)

- Tempo sliders for practice and Simon modes

- Lock icon which lets you freeze the difficulty at a certain number of notes in Practice mode instead of constantly increasing

- Floating display window in settings which displays stave and note that you are currently playing on a midi keyboard.

*Future Updates*

- Noodle time (let you play around to experiment before going O'Reilly Live)

- Markov or Transformer (thanks viraptor) approach to generate more sonically pleasing melodies

- Pianistic echoes (caetris24) - an optional visualization for the onscreen keyboard almost like a heat map pattern

- Fix the weird iPhone audio issue (EdNutting had some good advice on this)

- still looking at adding the Tracker 4-layout as proposed by moosedev

*Helpful fixes*

- Some midi controllers don't send a corresponding NOTE_OFF, instead they send a NOTE_ON with velocity of 0 (Thanks ta2112 for this helpful info)


I’m not hearing any sound. Safari iPhone 11 Pro iOS 18.6.2


Hey mdnahas - sorry to hear that. I still haven't figured out what is going on with some versions of iPhones.

These worked:

- iPhone 16e iOS 18.3

- iPhone 13 Pro Max iOS 18.0

- iPhone 15 Pro Max iOS 17.5

- iPhone 13 iOS 16.3

These failed to produce sound:

- iPhone 15 Pro iOS 17.1

- iPhone SE 2022 iOS 15.4

I'm baffled - there doesn't appear to be any consistency around this bug. As others have pointed out (though I doubt it) - you might see if you have the hardware mute, Do not disturb, silence mode, battery savings, etc. that might be causing it not to produce sound.

I'll add your version into the list of iPhones that is having issues. Thanks for the feedback!


Would be really nice to be able to use this with an acoustic piano.


That's a good idea - I'll try to get that implemented this evening.


Having both modes could be good. Default allows pre-noodling and enabled gives satisfaction of being correct one-shot (or falls back to retry with noodle).


You read my mind sir! Also, great work by OP, I really needed this since a long time!


came here to write this comment, +1!


another +1




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