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Congrats on the release, looks great!

Reminds me of Synthesia[1], with a better UX but less features!

How do you handle the displaying all notes on a portrait phone per your homepage screenshot? Especially on songs with a large gap between both hands, seems like it would be pretty cramped so a tablet might be the better option.

[1] https://www.synthesiagame.com/



Yes - it is heavily based on Synthesia. It has a few different priorities - it won't play weird formats like MusicXML, but it has stuff like looping, a speed trainer (looping with an automatic tempo increment), transposition etc.

Portrait on your phone is about the worse way to use the app, but it does technically work. You'll have to scroll side to side to see all the notes. Landscape is better - you fit all the notes in - and if you tap the screen once, it'll hide the header for a bit of extra space. But yes, an iPad or Mac is by far the best experience


Thanks for your response!

I was confused on the portrait as the phone is shown as-is on the homepage, I would advice making it landscape instead as it seems to be a more usable format


Yes - that would make a lot of sense! I copied the layout from the TechniCalc page, and never gave it a second thought




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