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jjazzboss / JJazzLab

A complete and open application for automatic backing tracks generation.
https://www.jjazzlab.org
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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Playing backing track in real time using MIDI input? #334

Closed WuTianming closed 1 year ago

WuTianming commented 1 year ago

I remember those Yamaha keyboards had such a function where you can hold down a chord in the left hand, and then the keyboard will immediately play auto accompaniment track to that chord. This is a very handy feature for live playing, however I have searched the Internet and hadn't found a decent free software to do the exact same thing.

I wonder if this feature can be implemented within the framework of JJazzLab? It would be a great additional feature.

Also I'm tempted to fork JJazzLab and see what I can do with the code...

jjazzboss commented 1 year ago

Actually it's already there ! https://jjazzlab.gitbook.io/user-guide/tools/arranger-keyboard-mode

WuTianming commented 1 year ago

Wow, impressive! I'm gonna check it out right now.

However I see that there may be a delay due to the software. I will first try it, then decide if that bit of delay is too much for live performance (in which case I hope to improve it further to reduce the delay somehow).

great work ;-)

WuTianming commented 1 year ago

The delay seems acceptable for me xD

ps. turns out that I have been using JJazzLab 2.x. Just upgraded to 3.x and it surely is a massive improvement