Let's get this thing installed !
Pianocheetah uses flatpak so
go into KDE's Discover or Gnome's Software app
search: pianocheetah
hit install button
It'll end up in your start menu's multimedia group.
The first time you run PianoCheetah, you'll see...
Pick the directory to -put- the pianocheetah dir into.
(don't include "pianocheetah" part)
Then you'll have to wait around (sorry).
After that, MidiConfig will pop up:
Where you pick each midi device's name and type.
I suggest "rockin88" for your piano.
I just name my drums "drum".
If a device is only for midi input, give it a type of OFF in the output list.
After you close MidiConfig, you'll finally see PianoCheetah !
Time to pick a song - I'd suggest
_demo / LegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime / TempleOfTime
Let's set it up in easy mode:
pick the Lrn column of the Piano track so it's a green triangle.
that's the track you'll play.
pick the Hand column and set it to R for right hand.
pick the Dev.Chan column so it's syn. The built in softsynth.
pick the Sound column so it's Elec1_aria.
Electric piano from the free Aria soundbank.
now click the ez button in the toolbar so it's hilighted.
now click on the toolbar ear/finger/brain button until it's on
finger=hear. (The others are play and practice)
ok! press w to wipe any notes you hit accidentally.
press 1 to go back to bar 1.
and you'll be playing that song with your right hand
never having to hop - easy !
Ok. Let's go over what some of these crazy parts of the screen actually are...