PianoBooster(6)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, so like... pianobooster — it's learn the piano just by playing a game. that's it, that's the whole vibe 💖 (and yes, this is the PianoBooster(6) manual page, page six energy, we love her)

🎹 DESCRIPTION 🎹

Piano Booster is piano teaching software, no cap. She can serve up piano lessons for total beginners and for advanced players who already ate and left no crumbs. She's also useful for teaching music theory, and honestly she's just that girl for piano practice and for learning piano technique. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pianobooster [flags] [midifile]

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -d, --debug — cranks the debug level up. more debug, more chaos 🔥
• -h, --help — shows you a help message, because we all need a little guidance sometimes 🫶
• --lights — turns on the keyboard lights. yes, lights. main character moment for your keyboard ✨
• -l, --log — writes the debug info out to the pb.log log file 📝
• --midi-input-dump — displays the midi input in hex. hex girl summer 💀
• -q, --quick-start — quick start, no thoughts head empty, just play 🧚
• -v, --version — displays the version number and exits. she tells you who she is and then leaves 😭
• --Xnote-length (EXPERIMENTAL) — displays the note length. experimental so like... handle with care bestie 🙈
• --Xtick-rate=RATE (EXPERIMENTAL) — adjusts the tick rate in mSec, the default being 4 (that's 12 windows, iykyk) ⭐

also experimental!! both --Xnote-length and --Xtick-rate are marked EXPERIMENTAL in the original, so don't come for me if they act up 💀

🌈 USAGE 🌈

Piano Booster is a fun way of playing along with a musical accompaniment, and at the same time you're learning the basics of reading musical notation. periodt. 📖✨

The difference between playing along to a CD or a standard midi file is that Piano Booster listens and follows what you are playing on a midi piano keyboard. she's paying attention to you, she's obsessed, she's your biggest fan 💖

The program has been designed to let you play along on a midi piano keyboard with the scrolling notes shown on the screen. The notes you press on the keyboard appear as colored lines on the musical stave, and the color of those lines depends on whether you've pressed the right note or the wrong note. it's giving color-coded feedback 🌈

A different musical instrument sound is used for your playing depending on whether you're playing the right or wrong notes. This feature also means Piano Booster can be used with printed sheet music, so you can hear whether you're playing the right notes while keeping your eyes on the printed score. and the music accompaniment will automatically wait for you to find and play the correct notes in the piece — she's patient, she's not rushing you, she's not like the others 🫶

Timing markers show whether you're playing ahead of or behind the beat. They appear as white crosses that are drawn over the note. little crosses?? on the note?? iconic. ✨

👑 FEATURES 👑

• Piano Booster follows you when playing along to a musical accompaniment. If you stop, then so does the music. she matches your energy fr fr 🎶
• Play a single hand and Piano Booster will play the other hand, as well as the rest of instruments, in time with you. she's got your back 💅
• Change the speed of playback to match your playing ability. no pressure, we go at your pace 🦋
• Transpose +/- 12 semitones without stopping the play back. live transposing?? she ate 🔥
• Change the Key Signature of the piece. 🎼
• Plays any standard midi or kar file. all of them. every single one. no cap 💜
• Play along to any instrument in the midi file. 🎺
• Adjust the volume of the current part or the volume your piano part. you have the aux cord, use it 🎚️
• See how accurate you're playing. the receipts are right there bestie 😭
• Change the start bar to start playing from any bar in the music. The repeat bars allows you to practice just a few difficult bars continuously. loop the hard bit until you slay it, that's the strategy 🌟
• Timing markers are white crosses that are drawn over each note and show if you are playing ahead or behind the beat. ⏱️
• A different instrument sound is used for the right and wrong notes that you play. 🎹

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

You can find more about the game on its homepage:

https://www.pianobooster.org

(go look, she's got lore 🌐)

💖 AUTHOR 💖

The game was originally written by Louis James Barman <louisjb@users.sourceforge.net>, <louisjbarman@gmail.com>. This manual page was written by Miriam Ruiz <miriam@debian.org> for the Debian project, but can be used by others. absolute legends, both of them, we stan 👑

and that's the whole page bestie!! this was the PianoBooster(6) manual page — page 6, the only page, the moment, the icon 💅✨ bye ily, go practice your scales 🌸🎀