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This activity born as a proof of concept for a piano keyboard widget, with the idea of add this widget to the existing | This activity born as a proof of concept for a piano keyboard widget, with the idea of add this widget to the existing Tam Tam suite. This widget should be usable with touch devices, as the XO-4, and support multiple touches, then we need use Gtk3 (Gtk2 only support a simple touch emulation). The [[Features/GTK3/Porting/TamTam|port of Tam Tam suite to Gtk3]] already started, but is complex and need more work. | ||
The piano widget trigger events for every key pressed/released, and is designed to be easily included in other activities. | The piano widget trigger events for every key pressed/released, and is designed to be easily included in other activities. | ||
The part of the code needed to play the notes, is copied from | The part of the code needed to play the notes, is copied from Tam Tam suite. The backend is using csound, but has not been improved in a lot of time. | ||
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The | The Music Keyboard repository is https://git.sugarlabs.org/simplepiano or https://github.com/godiard/music-keyboard-activity | ||
The | The Tam Tam repository is https://git.sugarlabs.org/tamtam | ||
Note the master branch in the | Note the master branch in the Tam Tam repository is where the port to Gtk3 started, but is not finished. If you want generate a usable activity, should use the branch sugar-0.94 | ||
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== Add recording to Music Keyboard activity == | == Add recording to Music Keyboard activity == | ||
There are code, actually commented, to record sounds in | There are code, actually commented, to record sounds in Tam Tam Mini activity. I don't know if the code is working or not, but is a alternative to explore. | ||
The activity | The activity Tam Tam Jam use sequences of notes as loops to play. Can we save a loop in Music Keyboard? Should be good for inter-operability. | ||
Other options to explore, is check if we can save the key press/release events, or convert to a more useful format as midi. | Other options to explore, is check if we can save the key press/release events, or convert to a more useful format as midi. | ||
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Daniel Francis proposed: "I have been working some time ago on a staff widget to show the notes [1]. Has pending to draw notes with sharps and flats (black keys in the piano)." | Daniel Francis proposed: "I have been working some time ago on a staff widget to show the notes [1]. Has pending to draw notes with sharps and flats (black keys in the piano)." | ||
Another option is show the notes as horizontal bars as the Tam Tam Edit activity do, maybe is more intuitive for kids. | |||
[1] http://git.sugarlabs.org/stafflib/test | [1] http://git.sugarlabs.org/stafflib/test | ||
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Page with information about | Page with information about Tam Tam development [[Activities/Tam Tam]] | ||
If you never developed a Sugar Activity, you must read: | |||
http://www.flossmanuals.net/make-your-own-sugar-activities/ | |||
Note, most of the book examples use Gtk2, but we moved to Gtk3. | |||
General information about port from Gtk2 to Gtk3 is here: | |||
[[Features/GTK3/Porting]] | |||
If you want help us fixing some bugs on activities, and learn a little about how activities work, | |||
you can see at this list of pending tickets: | |||
http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/bugs_index.html | |||
[[Category:Activities]] | |||