Midi Piano Pack

[Varinia Swicegood]

The easiest way to connect your MIDI keyboard is by using a MIDI-to-USB cable. Note that the MIDI 'In' goes to 'Out' and sometimes vice versa, depending on your keyboard. This setup allows for a direct, responsive playing experience with Midiano.

To use the playalong feature, you can enable it for each track in the track settings. This feature enhances interactive learning and playing, allowing you to engage directly with the music and receive direct feedback.

No, a MIDI keyboard is not a requirement to use Midiano. While it enhances the playalong feature, you can also use your computer keyboard. Midiano can be used for a variety of different use-cases such as video creation, note learning, pitch training, sight reading, or simply enjoying your favorite songs.

Yes, you can use Midiano with a keyboard with any number of keys. If you want, you can adjust the view of the piano using the zoom-settings. For the playalong feature you can set the range of your available keys in the settings under General -> Playalong. This will allow you to use the playalong feature even if the song covers a greater range than your piano by ignoring notes outside of that range. This customization ensures that Midiano caters to your specific keyboard size, enhancing your learning and playing experience.

The default songs in Midiano are from from piano-midi.de. There are a lot of sites offering free MIDI files. Simply search for the song you want to play and there's a pretty good chance that you'll find it.

Try opening the MIDI file on another MIDI player to see if the issue lies with Midiano or the file. There are a lot of messy MIDI files out there so it is possible that the file is broken. When in doubt you can always send an email or join us on discord so we can have a look.

To directly link MIDI files into Midiano, use the URL parameter 'songUrl' equal to the file URL, like this: = -midi.de-Files/raw/master/midi/elise.mid. You have to make sure that the server the file lies on sets the correct CORS-headers. Most sites do not do this by default but if you host the files yourself, you can allow the app.midiano.com domain to directly link those into Midiano. On large MIDI archive wherer the linking works is BitMidi.

I bought a second-hand MIDI controller keyboard recently hoping to be able to plug it in to my Windows laptop and play away. It has not been as easy as I hoped, and I have not been able to get my laptop to make a single sound so far. (I have tried several solutions which were either too complicated or just did not work.)

What I am looking for is a simple software package that will allow me to play my MIDI controller keyboard, like a simple standalone keyboard/piano. I don't need recording/editing/etc. (at least not at the moment, I am still a beginner).

What I do need, is for the software to be free, and the instructions to be clear and easy to follow for an absolute beginner (for example, I do not understand terms like VST and DAW that I have seen elsewhere).

First make sure that Windows is receiving MIDI from your keyboard. If you are connecting through USB you might need to install drivers, or do some setup. Google your keyboard's model and check the manual.

I do strongly recommend you to get familiar with a DAW (you can get Reaper, the demo version has no limits, or the free host VSTHost) and VSTs since that will increase your options by a large margin. It's very simple stuff and after one or two tutorials you'll be ready to go.

My piano roll will only show a single track and when I try to display the midi region from another track it resolutely refuses to go to that track. I select the track, then double click on the region and it opens this other region (the same "other"one every time) and refuses to open the region I have selected.

You can see this in the attached screen shot. I closed Logic and reopened the project, and then set up a dummy track which I entered MIDI notes to using the on screen keyboard. When I double click on this new region - same problem - it still shows the same old "other" region. You can see which region I have highlighted and double clicked, and which one is displayed in the piano roll. The region it stubbornly insists on showing is muted and its track is hidden so I am not accidentally selecting it.

Any advice as to what is going on would be appreciated. My guess is I have caused this somehow but cannot figure out why. I am working on a MIDI intensive project and have ground to a halt as I can no longer edit MIDI regions at all.

My midi editor is stuck on the same track. No matter what I select, up down, close reopen, the midi editor always goes back to the same track. If I deselect all, it will show the correct track on the left, but says nothing selected. The piano roll still shows the MIDI from the unselected track that it's stuck on. I'm sure I'm doing something simple, but it seems like double clicking on another region should actually open the midi editor on that track. Same for up/down arrows.

In Piano Roll go to View and check what settings are on top of the menu. If they look like on the screenshot below, you need to activate "Link" (green arrow) and select "Selected Regions" instead of "One Track" (red arrow).

My MIDI file has two tracks for piano, one for the left hand and one for the right. How can I setup the MIDI Import Options so that both tracks go to their respective upper and lower staff of the piano, without being altered by the automatic hand splitting algorithm?

You can tell Dorico to import the music from multiple tracks to the same instrument. When you open the MIDI file and the MIDI Import Options dialog appears, click the button to show the Advanced Editor. This will show the Players in Dorico project list on the right-hand side that will show that two pianos are going to be created. Select the second track that corresponds to the piano, and then in the Players in Dorico project list, select the Piano 1 instrument. This will tell Dorico that both tracks should be imported to the same instrument, and the Piano 2 instrument will disappear from the Players in Dorico project list.

Thank you @dspreadbury. This is what I tried at the beginning and the Left/Right hand distribution from the two MIDI tracks was not preserved. The MIDI of both tracks was just merged and the split-point settings were applied on top of it. Can you please consider this 2-track piano workflow as a feature request for MIDI Import Options?

I run an M-Audio KeyStation 88 which is similar to your controller as it is only a MIDI controller. I use qsampler (a front end for linuxsampler) to load the grand piano. I can then connect the Keystation to the sampler and play.

After much useful advice and help from this forum looking for a good MIDI piano sound, I chose addictive keys Grand Piano plugin, sounds nice and is fine. However when I record a piano backing track ready for vocals, the recording sounds quiet through the phones even when they are turned up full through my Steinberg UR22 interface. This is not the case when I record things like vocals or guitar so I assume its a MIDI thing. How do I get this to have more volume? ( Novice here obviously).It sounds fine but quiet if you know what I mean.

The piano seems to be very velocity sensitive. I would suggest that you check your MIDI controller's velocity curve settings, and the velocity settings in the Cakewalk track. Mine is set to [Vel+ ='0'] there as well. You could also review a MIDI clip that you have recorded and see the recorded velocity levels for that track in the piano roll.

Yes Velocity. Piano sound best with a good variation in velocity but keep in mind going over 115 can sound too harsh with some VST's. The velocity has bearing on the timber of the sound just like a real piano being played soft or hard. So don't think of velocity for Volume but timber and dynamics. AD Keys is a very loud piano that I use because of it's ability to cut through when mixed with blues or rock guitars.

I was looking at this thread and in the meantime just found the solution. In my case, I'm using a Roland E-09 as midi input, which was noticeably quieter than when using the virtual keyboard. The reason was that I had the "keyboard touch" button on. When turning it off, the midi signal with the same (max) velocity as on the virtual keyboard was transmitted.

That button is actually very good feature. But you have it backwards.
Piano is a touch sensitive instrument that will sound boring if played flat at one velocity.
But other keyboards like Organ are not touch sensitive so that feature is used when you play those instruments.
The timber of a real piano changes as you play harder or softer.

I also had problems with the dynamics. I am using Novation Lunchkey 49. When I was playing on a midi keyboard, it sounded very quiet. The solution was to add Midi effect Velocity. I increased the value of Velocity. After that, the piano sounded more correctly. Maybe you have the same problem.

Now I want to use my MIDI piano instead to do this event.In my actual code I've used a KeyDown(to show a colored image of the piano key over the original) and KeyUp(to hide it) to do this event, and I know that do that with a MIDI piano will be harder than this.

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