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Hello, Because it's Fun to Play and see the Piano... A piano that creates a visual presentation of what been played on it. Infusing lights and sound excites multiple senses.
"I Will Wait for You" from the movie "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" on the Roland GP607 Piano Luminescent. Music composed by Michel Legrand. I mix the Piano tone with the String Quartet Ensemble tone from the GP607
The colors that are mapped to the pitches were taken loosely, from the composer Alexander Scriabin's color wheel chart. Scriabin was one of the first classical music composer "1872 - 1915", who was intrigued by the idea of adding colors to the music.
His music is a beautiful blend with light, shape, and color. He was the first multi-media music composer! Now, we can apply this awesome technique to modern music!
Gear: Roland GP607 Audio: Recorded by the GP607 on wav file. Lights "Color LEDs strip" controller by a Raspberry Pi & an Arduino Pianist: Pierre Tanguay | A Guy Who Have Time On His Hands.
Thank you for watching and hope you enjoyed it! Anything feedback is appreciated.
Last edited by Piano Luminescent; 06/30/2012:24 PM.
You're supposed to film from above with lights off... This is rubbish and another annoying stupid trend that attracts masses of kids who like pretty lights and piano. YouTube is over saturated with this trash, what you done here is not unique, its been done a million times before and years ago.
If it attracts 100 kids to cool things you can do with a piano, that will give 100 kids a bit of piano exposure and maybe infuse 10 kids (who may also like Maker stuff/Arduino/etc) with a love for piano and music.
Who knows that 1 of those 100 might do something really unique in the future that brings some additional beauty into the world for us all.
In terms of scientific method, an experiment must be repeated hundreds of times, perhaps with some small variations, before there is a breakthrough. The more examples, the better!
I haven't seen this before and I appreciate his posting it.
Previous owner of a Yahama P-120 - now has new life with a student New owner of a Kawai CA79 (and love it!)
Thank you for your feedback. I just try to make learning and listening to digital piano an uplifting and enjoyable experience for children and adults included.
Thank you for your feedback. I just try to make learning and listening to digital piano an uplifting and enjoyable experience for children and adults included.
Well played! The lighting is not my cup of tea, but as an oldster, I don’t think I’m your target YouTube audience. 😊. You might play around with the camera angle—maybe from the top with only hands and keys to emphasize the note and color association. Just a stray thought that is not worth .02
You're supposed to film from above with lights off... This is rubbish and another annoying stupid trend that attracts masses of kids who like pretty lights and piano. YouTube is over saturated with this trash, what you done here is not unique, its been done a million times before and years ago.
Why do you have to be like that? It's all good that you prefer your traditional piano ways and all, but there really is no reason at all to be so unfriendly towards someone that likes a piano with lights or whatever.
I think it's kind of refreshing to use these lights as a visual representation of what has been played on it, instead of the other way around, which is what it's usually used for.
Dogperson, I’ll give you .01 for that there stray thought; not a penny more (literally) because then that would make it .02; which is your asking price, and as you indicated yourself, you don’t believe your stray thought is worth that much.
This is rubbish and another annoying stupid trend that attracts masses of kids who like pretty lights and piano. YouTube is over saturated with this trash, what you done here is not unique, its been done a million times before and years ago.
Hmm, I wonder why Pianoworld has a reputation of threads devolving into pointless arguments.
Piano Luminescent, I really enjoyed your playing and your implementation of the visualizer. It's actually refreshing NOT to see the ubiquitous black-backdrop top-down view for once Also, I liked that you use a slow fade on the LEDs for note-off, it makes for a more flowing, polished effect.
Nice project Piano Luminescent. Your implementation of the lighting is very pleasing. How did you approach the brightness and fade parameters?
Newer Player, here the answer: The brightness and fade parameters data "velocity" is sent by the digital piano MIDI data USB port and received by the Raspberry PI.
You're supposed to film from above with lights off... This is rubbish and another annoying stupid trend that attracts masses of kids who like pretty lights and piano. YouTube is over saturated with this trash, what you done here is not unique, its been done a million times before and years ago.
Relax. There's nothing wrong with this. Nothing wrong with having an LED light setup. People play piano, and it's "not unique, its been done a million times before and years ago", but there's nothing wrong with playing piano, right?
I made some custom Arduino LED integrations for drone flight controllers back in the day. A lot of LED strips have libraries available that handle the PWM commands for fades and delays. I definitely agree with newer player that it's amazing how accessible and easy these projects are nowadays.
You're supposed to film from above with lights off... This is rubbish and another annoying stupid trend that attracts masses of kids who like pretty lights and piano. YouTube is over saturated with this trash, what you done here is not unique, its been done a million times before and years ago.
You can't be talking either. Your youtube channel which is on your profile contains lots of videos with the rolling synthesia notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8IPIEj5XpU I can only assume this to be you if the youtube channel is on your profile? Your videos have everything except for the LED lights, arguably making them lower level than even the "annoying stupid trend that attracts masses of kids who like pretty lights and piano".
Oh, no! The worst sin of all the sins! Discouraging kids from learning notation! And teaching them to play like robots!
I think you've missed my point: mwf here is arguing that not being unique is bad. yet he has the same synthesia setup that a lot of youtubers do. my point is that he's being hypocritical, and that not being unique is not bad. LED lights look cool, and that's all that is to it. who cares if other people do it? If you're going to complain about people "not being unique" then wouldn't you be unique yourself? Nothing wrong with the rolling synthesia notes, only that it's coming from someone who is complaining about people not being unique.
I think you've missed my point: mwf here is arguing that not being unique is bad. yet he has the same synthesia setup that a lot of youtubers do. my point is that he's being hypocritical, and that not being unique is not bad. LED lights look cool, and that's all that is to it. who cares if other people do it? If you're going to complain about people "not being unique" then wouldn't you be unique yourself? Nothing wrong with the rolling synthesia notes, only that it's coming from someone who is complaining about people not being unique.
Nice find on the Synthesia notes... that is pretty funny. LED strip wins over Synthesia in my opinion -- LED strip is a real live effect.
The reality is that mwf did Piano Luminescent a favor, and if they weren't compensated for it (YouTuber helping YouTuber), well, they should be.
If someone came and said "nice work" or nothing at all, like typically happens with member recording videos, the thread may well have died.
Also, I liked that you use a slow fade on the LEDs for note-off, it makes for a more flowing, polished effect.
