Learning music reading software on midi compatible instrument (Linux, Windows, MacOs)
Calao aims to be educational tool to learn music reading with computer. It provides a flexible software to handle all MIDI instrument (through USB) to improve music reading on our favorite instrument
Features include:
- Notes in line exercise
- Chords, intervals and accidentals exercise
- Rhythms exercise
- Score reading exercise
- Ear training exercise with 4 levels of difficulty
- Statistics with monthly and daily view
- Exercises editor. Users can create, save, modify and play exercises very easily
- Supports of 4 clefs: Violin, Bass, Alto, Tenor, with a maximum of 2 at the same time
- Supports of notes: Whole, half, dotted half, quarter, dotted quarter, eighth, triplets, pauses
- Selection of the notes range for each clef. Maximum of 4 additional lines above and below the staff
- Virtual piano, to exercise without having external devices
- Learning mode, that shows the name of the note or the chord displayed on the staff
- Real time playback through Fluidsynth
- Custom sound banks load in SoundFont 2 format (.SF2)
- Translated in 15 languages
Caution: Fluidsynth has a very bugged implementation in Calao
The bulk of the documentation is stored in the Resources/docs/index.md
file in this bundle:
Read the Documentation for master
All the installation instructions are located in the documentation.
Calao is TestDriven developped with the Travis-CI tool.
Default 1.5 jre needed
This software is created under the GPL v3.0 license. See the complete license :
LICENSE
This software has a complicated story. See the complete :
CREDITS
Calao is a free software. See also the list of contributors.
Issues and feature requests are tracked in the Github issue tracker.