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INTRODUCTION
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Piano Booster is a MIDI file player that displays the musical notes AND teaches you how to
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play the piano. You can play along to any track in the midi file and PianoBooster will
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follow YOUR playing. PianoBooster makes sight reading fun!
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Piano Booster is a free (Open Source) program available from:
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<http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/>
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REQUIREMENTS
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To run Piano Booster you need a MIDI Piano Keyboard and a MIDI-USB interface if the keyboard
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does not have a USB interface. (If you don't have a MIDI keyboard you can still try out
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PianoBooster using the computer's keyboard, 'x' is middle C).
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To hear music from the computer you will need a General Midi compatible sound synthesizer.
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While there are many possible choices for the Mac (Timidity, FluidSynth or an external MIDI
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Synth), the easiest way is to use SimplSynth, which can be obtained for free (MIT license)
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from:
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<http://notahat.com/simplesynth>
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This must be started before Pianobooster, and also allows to load custom Soundfonts.
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MIDI FILES
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To run PianoBooster you will need some Midi files preferably with right and left piano
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parts on channels 4 and 3. Some high quality demo MIDI files that are compatible with
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PianoBooster are available on the PianoBooster download page see:
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<http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/download.html>
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INSTRUCTIONS
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Double Click on the DMG file containing PianoBooster, then just drag the pianobooster.app
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file wherever you wish (/Application folder is suggested).
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Once the Piano Booster application starts up you must first setup the midi input and midi
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output interface from the Setup menu. Next open a midi file ".mid" or a karaoke ".kar" file
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using File/Open from the Piano Booster menu. Now choose the skill level, if you want to
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just listen to the midi music -- select 'listen', to play along with a midi keyboard with
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the music following your playing -- select 'follow you'. Finally click on the Play icon to
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start.
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It is recommended that you shut down all other programs whilst running Piano Booster so that
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the scrolling notes move smoothly across the screen.
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LICENSE
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Piano Booster is fully copyrighted by the author and all rights are reserved.
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PianoBooster is free software (Open Source software): you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
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Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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PianoBooster is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
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without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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See the GNU General Public License in the file "gplv3.txt" or from the web site
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<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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SOURCE CODE
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As part of GNU General Public License the source code for PianoBooster is available from
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the Source Forge site <http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/>
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