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Up to Microcosmos 1:6 six unison melodies 6 I don't see a golden star either. From 1:7 Dotted notes the stars are visible.

Ah, thanks Sarah! I thought something was missing. Perhaps I'm too fixated on getting gold stars. ;-)

I find that Mikrokosmos very good exercises to train left and right. Since I use that, my left hand goes much better.
Don't we all love golden stars

It turns out that there is an option in the dropdown in StaffPad to export to uncompressed, it just defaults to compressed. So, I should be good to go. I'll have to try it out.

Hello Sarah,

Is Book 2 of Mikrokosmos in the Library? I can't seem to find it. The exercises are great for training both hands, I agree.

If it isn't, you can email PM and encourage them to upload it. It's a useful educational work and PM is all about education. They are actively loading all sorts of stuff into the library, and I think a complete set of 6 volumes of Mikrokosmos would be an excellent thing to have in their library.

Yes, I agree. I have sent them a note encouraging them to put all the volumes into the library. I can write them up in StaffPad, and I'm pretty fast at it, but it does take time away from practicing and other things, so, I'd rather not do it if I don't have to.

Did you finish book 1 already then? I can only do one song every day. For so far I know there is no other in the library. As Tyrone said, ask PM

That would have been impressively fast! I had assumed LarryK was just planning ahead for when he does finish!

I had to look up Mikrokosmos. So is that work old enough that copyright doesn't apply? (I have no idea how profitable PM is.)

Fear not, I’m not an adult prodigy! Actually, the definition of prodigy says child or youth so child prodigy is redundant, I’d say.

My progress is one exercise a day. I was planning ahead and thinking of others.

Yes, what is the copyright status of Mikrokosmos? Did PM just post it and wait for a takedown notice? Maybe Bartok would have liked PM for his son.

https://imslp.org/wiki/Mikrokosmos%2C_Sz.107_(Bartók%2C_Béla)

In the US, it will go out of copyright next September. No idea where the PM servers are though.

Thanks for this information. The person from PM said they would request permission to add the other volumes.

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I would like to see anyone sight-read Volume 6, though The pieces in that are very advanced. For example, this one is considered an advanced diploma level (professional):



Even by Book 3, there will be pieces that will be too difficult to sight read for us beginners, such as this one here:



I'm sure they still will be great training pieces even if not sight-readable by beginners.

Yes, the road is going to get difficult. I would be ecstatic if I could make it through Volume 2.

In the description in the beginning of the book, it says the first three volumes are good for the first one or two years of study. If anybody makes it to Volume 2, I'm willing to write the pieces up in StaffPad and mail around the MIDI and XML files.

Strangely, the uncompressed XML file from StaffPad chopped off the piece just like the compressed file so I'm a bit puzzled as to what is wrong.

If you want to compare the XML to find the difference, here is a DropBox link to your original compressed mxl file after it is converted to the uncompressed musicxml format, which MuseScore converted for me. This uncompressed musicxml format file does work to upload into PM. I had changed nothing in the score, just opened your provided file and then exported in uncompressed musicxml format. You can compare the XML in this file with the XML when StaffPad writes the uncompressed MusicXML directly.

I imagine you'd find the issue pretty much right away. Often it is something minor in these cases either an incorrect interpretation of the XML format in PM or StaffPad. I'd be willing to bet though that MuseScore is doing it correct if its output is readable by PM, so likely the error is occurring in either PM or StaffPad... or both.

Today, I received the Yamaha P-515! It's nice, I am happy that I bought it.

I hooked up PianoMarvel to the new keyboard. The first time I tried PM, it would not recognize the keyboard. I rebooted my MacBook Pro and then it worked. Maybe it somehow remembered my old keyboard?

I hooked up the sound output from the MacBook to the Aux Input on the P-515 using a 3.5mm jack. Everything works as before, but it seems to me that the PianoMarvel count in voice is kind of distorted. I don't believe I hear this distortion when listening to YouTube videos on the laptop. I tried turning the volume down on my laptop, but it does not seem to make a difference. Has anybody else noticed this? I don't think I hear distortion in the accompaniment.

I'm using a brand new pair of Denon AH-D7200 headphones which sound amazing with the Yamaha. I happened to stick the keyboard between my stereo speakers and when I play with headphones and look at the speakers, it seems like the sound is coming out of the speaker. It is uncanny.

I installed the trial version of Pianoteq 6 and I can see how that is going to be a lot of fun. I think I'll buy it. Am I right in assuming it is sending the sounds back through the USB cable or is it using the audio output? Do I need to turn off Local Control?

This happens all the time to me for my piano computer which is Win10Pro. Never been able to cure it. I usually just rebook my computer and it resolves it. A couple of times, I've had to reboot the DP too. I would be very interested if anyone found what is the cause of this or the "proper solution" that makes rebooting unnecessary since it is inconvenient and takes time. On the other hand, I usually leave my computer on all the time, and the typical time this happens for me is when I turn the DP off - say to clean the keys, for example.


I personally avoid by using a small mixing board that mixes the output of the piano with the output of my piano computer, and this is then fed to my headphone amp and headphones. I just figure that piano's amps were tuned for piano output. Why would I want to put voice through it?


I don't know about sending sounds back via USB. I suppose it is possible if one has the right drivers installed. In my case, the signal is sent via an audio output, and not so long ago, I got an external audio interface for the computer so that the ASIO driver would not block the audio channel from other apps using it (say PM, etc.). But I don't have P515. I believe the P515 has a special audio interface, so it may actually work via USB, as you suggested.


Yes.