Piano effect broken?

[vult2000]

I can't seem to get it to do anything other than render the keys on the matrix.  I have the Vamp Plugins installed and xLights recognizes that they are there (can create a new timing track based off of them), but when I choose Polyphonic Transcription or Note Onset the keys do not actually play anything no matter what values I enter into the starting and ending note values.

[plaberge]

I just updated from the old version of Piano to the new one last night in one of my sequences. It wasn't working until I realized that I needed to select 4 colors (with Show Sharps and Flats checked).

[keithsw1111]

So it's working now?  One of the later videos in the sticky post on the Facebook post covers it.

[vult2000]

I can't get it to work.  The tutorial seems a little different from the current version since you can't choose the Note source anymore.  I exported the polyphonic transcription from audacity and brought in as a timing track in xLights and used that as the "Track" setting on the effect but I'm still not getting any movement at all.   I can see the note labels on the timing track though.

[plaberge]

Importing notes is problematic - you should use the built-in Polyphonic Transcription in Xlights.

1. Click on existing timing track
2. Select Polyphonic Transcription - ignore the warning
3. Click OK
4. Xlights will grind of a while and create a Notes track
5. Click on the Piano effect to select it again
6. In the Effects Settings, in the pull-down for Track, select Notes

That should do it.

[Boof63]

Thank you for the info  plaberge, nut rocker was going to be a problem to hand match
Cheers. Boof 63
Ps is their a way to setup each octave with different coloured notes, regardless of number of octaves ie c= light blue ,d = light green etc across the matrix? Would just be more visual.
Cheers Boof63
PPS i can put a rainbow effect onto the background of the matrix and that changes at least but not rally what I was hoping for , keys selected are still one colour.

[keithsw1111]

Do this using layers and constraining the buffer and put one piano in each section covering the octave you are interested in.

[Boof63]

thank you!! didn't think outside the bleeding obvious.
Great idea and a life saver
Cheers Boof63