Sound Output - It's a Dealbreaker
Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 2:47 pm
I saw a few posts on this already, but nothing with specifics. I've got some specific questions, so please forgive the new topic.
I've been playing for about six months on an old spinet acoustic piano using the "Simply Piano" app, which detects the notes you play through an iPad microphone. I've just about maxed out what I can get from that app, but it motivated me to buy a new digital piano, a Yamaha CVP-705, and to look into options to keep learning. Playground Sessions seems ideal, but I can't believe the only sound output option is to listen to my laptop speakers.
I saw a few threads asking how to get the application to use a digital piano's speakers, but the official response seems to be, "turn the speakers down on your $7000 piano, and listen to our midi output on your dinky laptop." I can only hope that the specially recorded and constructed midi output of my Yamaha's piano voices is far superior to whatever Playground Sessions is using (if it's not, I'd rather not know), and the speakers are certainly far superior. I'm surprised that the app does not work with digital pianos to provide a better listening experience.
That being said, I figure some people have developed work-arounds to use their digital pianos to output their practice sessions, and I would like to hear from you!
Specific questions/ideas:
1) Can I just route the output of my laptop back to the piano? - Seems pretty straight forward, but I'd still be using the apps midi sounds instead of the pianos. Are there any other issues with this idea? Latency?
2) Is it possible to turn the sound in the app all the way down just for the keyboard output? i.e. the app could play the background music and instruction sounds, but my piano would output the piano sound. Maybe I could combine this solution with #1 and have everything out of the piano speakers, too?
3) How do you maximize your listening enjoyment during your practice sessions?
4) Any word on if and when the app will be built to better integrate with digital pianos?
Thanks!
I've been playing for about six months on an old spinet acoustic piano using the "Simply Piano" app, which detects the notes you play through an iPad microphone. I've just about maxed out what I can get from that app, but it motivated me to buy a new digital piano, a Yamaha CVP-705, and to look into options to keep learning. Playground Sessions seems ideal, but I can't believe the only sound output option is to listen to my laptop speakers.
I saw a few threads asking how to get the application to use a digital piano's speakers, but the official response seems to be, "turn the speakers down on your $7000 piano, and listen to our midi output on your dinky laptop." I can only hope that the specially recorded and constructed midi output of my Yamaha's piano voices is far superior to whatever Playground Sessions is using (if it's not, I'd rather not know), and the speakers are certainly far superior. I'm surprised that the app does not work with digital pianos to provide a better listening experience.
That being said, I figure some people have developed work-arounds to use their digital pianos to output their practice sessions, and I would like to hear from you!
Specific questions/ideas:
1) Can I just route the output of my laptop back to the piano? - Seems pretty straight forward, but I'd still be using the apps midi sounds instead of the pianos. Are there any other issues with this idea? Latency?
2) Is it possible to turn the sound in the app all the way down just for the keyboard output? i.e. the app could play the background music and instruction sounds, but my piano would output the piano sound. Maybe I could combine this solution with #1 and have everything out of the piano speakers, too?
3) How do you maximize your listening enjoyment during your practice sessions?
4) Any word on if and when the app will be built to better integrate with digital pianos?
Thanks!