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.