Doremi Mania

[ceraf]

anyone experience a distinct lag from when the key on the midi keyboard is pressed to when it registers on screen? It's really persuading me to buy an official kbm game.

[noisy doll☆]

Zarcom, I'm having trouble understanding how that post was relevant to this topic at all.

I think that it would be helpful to learn at least an elementary level of keyboard technique in order to play the game. Knowing how to play scales quickly will make the game so much easier and so much more enjoyable, and if you were to approach it the right way I think that Keyboardmania/ Doremi Mania would help your keyboard skills; again, because of the sight-reading aspect that dev314 mentioned.

I played Doremi Mania for about a year in high school, before I had any keyboard experience, and I got the impression that I would never improve past the plateau I had reached unless I learned how to play piano properly. I have taken two semesters of Piano Class at school, as a music major, but we didn't cover very much. I'd love to get back into it after studying some more piano and getting more fluent on the keys. The problem with Doremi Mania/Keyboardmania is that it does not train you to do anything specific with your hands, so you will likely develop unconventional fingerings for certain things.

Long story short, if you start out playing piano/keyboard first it could be very helpful, but if you have no training at all then it will not improve anything for you.

[Skizye]

How do i get it to make sound? I got my keyboard wired through MIDI to my comp and the notes register but there is no sound Help please!!

[ITGmaster18]

Originally Posted by General_Norris

I doubt you get more physical damage by palying keyboardmania than the one you get by playing Guitar Freaks or Beatmania (Carpal tunnel FTW). And sicne it makes no difference to play a song in the game (Real of coruse) and playing it on a KB I fail to see how you are going to lose technique, at most you will play like if playing Beatmania (Saw a guy doing this) because you ahve never palyed a piano before.

oh not to argue cause i know what you meant, but carpel tunnel doesnt happen unless you play improperly, basically if your fingers are higher then the palm of your hand, its actually when the blood flow cant make it up to the fingers, sorta like if you play piano with your hands below the keys, anyways thats what my piano teacher told me

[Ætheros]

Originally Posted by Skizye

How do i get it to make sound? I got my keyboard wired through MIDI to my comp and the notes register but there is no sound Help please!!

I'm having this same problme, how do I get the song/keysounds/whatever so I can hear the song while I'm playing?

[noisy doll☆]

You might have to go into your MIDI settings from the Windows Control Panel, and try using different MIDI In's and Out's. Sometimes the ones you're supposed to pick are not what seems obvious.

[Ætheros]

should I have some sort of audio file (mp3, wma. ogg, etc.) in with the .pms file or something? I figured the .pms had audio info stored in it since they play the song on feeling pomu. The problem I have is that not only does no sound come out of the keyboard when I play, but there's no other audio at all. I'll try changing the MIDI settings, but I'm not sure if MIDI is my problem.

[migue420]

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[oliverclouds]

turns out interestingly enough the sound is transmitted to the piano, its pretty cool but that is what the midi-in port is for. it receives the sound from the computer. the midi-out is for the game to receive all your button pushes. so just turn on ur keyboard, well it shud b on but put up your sound and you will be amazed. quality sux on my piano but that is because mine is old, so you definitely want to switch the midi to another driver from ur pc sound card. go into control panel, sound options, change the midi device to something else.

[Alexx5]

I wish there were more full real-audio pms files. It SO much more fun to play real-audio tunes. I'm currently trying to make my own but its hard as hell and takes forever with this stupidly limited pms format

[dartvalince]

kinda a bump but more so an FYI

If anyone is intersted i can tell you how to make your Konami Keyboarmania Controller work with DoReMi. The only problem i've found so far is the pitch wheel isn't working properly. I'm going to make a thread for it tonight

[robert74]

I have a yamaha p80 keyboard connected via midi cable to my Sb live using the kx drivers. It works because I can play soundfonts and softsynths by playing on the p80. Both doremi mania and keyboard mania send midi to the p80 but neither receive midi. I've tried all the advice in this thread...changing control panel settings, etc. I've given up, but if anyone can explain that'd be great. (Note: I also tried it with a USB midi cable and got the same result.) Wierd.

[tignos]

BUMP!

where can i download DoReMi Mania now? Geocities is dead! can someone upload it?

EDIT:
nevermind...i found it