pianobooster/TODO.md

Original PianoBooster TODO

Piano Booster To Do tasks (in no particular order)

EASY

• changing the piano sound to use the same sound as on the part.
• [Bug] fix patches when all 16 channels are being used (mute parts 15 + 16).
• add a tempo display in BPM.
• Add - one finger play - playing just one note of a cord will be accepted (Optional).
• Add - rhythm practice - any note played at the right time will be accepted.

MEDIUM

• Adding a high score of your playing ability.
• Add stars -- see if you can collect all 10 stars.
• Reduce the midi timing jitter by:
  1. Change to using rtTimer (as supplied by Pedro).
  2. Increase the midi tick rate to 1 mSec.
• Make the graphics move smoothly across the screen, without the flickering or tearing by:
  1. synchronise the frame rate to match screen/lcd monitor refresh rate.
• Fix the text flickering problem (probably a QT bug).
• Display note durations as a piano roll type display.
• Display note duration using simple musical notation (without any rests or note beams).
• Automatically adjust the speed (as an option) to match the playing ability.
• Adding a metronome/drum track to the piece being played.
• read the midi file tracks (at present the tracks are split only by midi channel number).

DIFFICULT

• reduce the midi timing jitter by: 3. Move the conductor realtime engine so it runs in it own thread.
• Show the rests in each bar.
• Add note beams.
• show a graph of how your playing has improved over time.

NO PLANS FOR

• Proper beautiful music notation complete with slurs, triplets, correct note spacing etc. (Please use the printed musical score for this instead).

NON SOFTWARE TASKS

• Add a PB links page on the web site.
• writing a user manual.
• Expand the faq.
• Publicise PB by posting to other forums.
• Publicise PB by getting other sites to link to PB.
• Get a collection of suitable pieces that can be distributed with PB with the right licence.
• Writing a music teaching course.

COMPLETE

Add keyboard shortcuts. (Owen) Help for keyboard shortcuts. Add assignable Left and Right hand midi channels. Save the setting per song (e.g. remember the current speed settings).

NOTE

Note: changed the '-' to a '+' when the task has been started.