🎹 PianoGame is now Open Source!
The group has been a little quiet lately, so I accidentally decided to open-source my 100% Synthesia clone that runs cross-platform, just as promised. 😅
GitHub: https://github.com/manh9011/PianoGame
PianoGame is a piano learning and visualization project inspired by the Synthesia experience, built with the goal of making the whole thing open, extensible, and available across platforms.
Some of the features include:
- Synthesia-style falling notes / piano roll
- MIDI import and playback
- MusicXML support
- Karaoke / lyrics synchronization
- Multi-staff piano notation
- SoundFont playback
- Cross-platform support
- An architecture designed to be extended into more advanced music applications
But the main reason I'm releasing it isn't simply to make another Synthesia clone.
I think projects like this can become interesting building blocks for the next generation of AI-powered music applications.
We're already seeing AI being used for things like music generation, transcription, MIDI manipulation, music understanding, lyrics alignment, and automatic score generation. Having an open platform for rendering, playback, visualization, and interaction can make it much easier to experiment with all of these ideas.
For example:
Audio âž” AI transcription âž” MIDI âž” PianoGame âž” notation âž” playback âž” interactive practice
Or perhaps:
AI-generated music âž” MIDI âž” visualization âž” piano learning game
There are a lot of possible directions, and I honestly don't know what people might build on top of it.
That's also why I decided to release the source instead of keeping it as a closed project.
You can find the repository here:
https://github.com/manh9011/PianoGame
Fork it, modify it, break it, build something completely different with it.
Maybe someone will turn it into a better piano learning app.
Maybe an AI music workstation.
Maybe a MIDI editor.
Maybe a rhythm game.
Maybe something I haven't even thought of.
PRs, issues, forks, experiments, and crazy ideas are welcome.
Hopefully PianoGame can give the music-dev/AI community another open building block for creating new things around MIDI, piano, notation, visualization, and AI music.
Have fun with it.