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A full sized piano is 88 keys, a little over 7 octaves. That is the range of
possible notes that Piano Wizard can deal with.
Of course, your keyboard may be smaller, and may play only 4 of those 7
octaves, and each song and song part (track) occupies a different part of
the total possible range.
SO, we have a very easy, visual way for you to align the track (song part)
you choose, and the range of your keyboard, so they overlap. That is all
explained in the HELP/DEMO section in the opening splash screen, under
Tracks, in fact there are over a dozen audio-visual demos there to teach you
different functions of the game.
It is also accessible WITHIN the game, by clicking on HELP in Advanced Mode,
and following the sequence of slides on the Tracks section.
To summarize those help files,
On the 88 key virtual piano at the bottom of the Tracks screen, when you
select different tracks above to Play, it will highlight in Blue the range
of notes for that track or combination of tracks. This is very useful for
you to adjust your keyboard to play all or most of the notes in that track.
Your keyboard's range will be highlighted with Red brackets (the size of the
red brackets, and the view of the virtual keyboard are selected and adjusted
in the Keyboard section of Advanced mode, or during initial Set up.)
There are 2 arrow buttons on the lower left side of the Tracks menu, that
adjust the Red Brackets, your keyboard range, to overlap with the (blue, or
green if overlapped) range of that track. Note that the range of the
keyboard must move by octaves, (your keyboard is a fixed size) and if you
download a new song, it may not all fit in 4 octaves perfectly.
If you choose a bigger or smaller virtual (onscreen) keyboard view in the
Keyboard section, it will always default to the smaller of the two, the
virtual or the actual, in the Tracks range section, so you can see exactly
what is your playable range.
The MIDI files included with the game should all fit on a 3 octave keyboard.
For files found and downloaded online, these MIDI files were created by
thousands of different people over the last 20 years, and so they are a bit
like a box of chocolates in quality and suitability. That variability is why
we gave you the tools in Tracks menu, so you can still somehow play the most
crazy files you find. Have fun!
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