pianobooster/TODO.md

PianoBooster TODO
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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.
- 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:
    1. 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

- Writing a user manual.
- Expand the faq.
- Get a collection of suitable pieces that can be distributed with PB with the right licence.
- Writing a music teaching course.