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Piano Glow

Piano in online multiplayer lobbies, with leaderboards, gamified training modes (ear, sheet, rhythm and falling notes). Play any song using either a QWERTY computer/laptop keyboard or a piano. Suitable for all levels including beginners with no experience!

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March 10, 2025
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About the Game

PianoGlow is a piano game featuring:

  • Multiplayer

    • Show-off your piano skills & listen to others around the globe.

    • Queue-based mode to take turns playing piano.

    • Several multiplayer modes, including queue, guess drawing (draw while playing piano), guess songs (players play a song and guess each other's song).

    • Global and private chatrooms. Voice chat and friend/block lists.

    • Offline and single-player mode.

  • Works with both QWERTY keyboard, a real digital piano or MIDI controllers

    • Play any music or song with a QWERTY keyboard (laptop/computer).

    • Or connect to a real digital piano or MIDI controller via Bluetooth or USB-B.

    • Any song works with any size keyboard, even as small as 25, since the PianoGlow app can auto-convert any MIDI or song to a smaller one.

    • Velocity integration with Wooting Analog QWERTY keyboards so that you can play with dynamics on the computer keyboard (loud & soft).

    • Record & load MIDI files (live play or render as video from within the app).

  • Training modes & tools

    • Ear training, rhythm, falling notes, chord, scales, arpeggios & sheet music game modes. Perfect for all levels (including beginners with no experience).

    • Customizable setting in many training modes to auto-pause until you hit the next correct note/chord (auto-pause on by default).

    • Tracks stats and shows wrong answers more often to focus on your weaknesses. Unlock achievements!

    • Detailed calendar that shows exactly how much you practiced each day and month.

    • AI-based fingering, help determine which fingers to use on any MIDI file or song.

    • AI-based converter that adjusts any MIDI/MusicXML or song to fit into a smaller piano/keyboard.

    • Interactive Circle-of-Fifths cheat sheet - clicking shows the common chord triads, key signature and the 7th chords.

    • Automated Chord Name Identifier & Intervals when you play any chord on the piano.

    • Lighted Keyboards - lights up the indicators on your MIDI keyboard in falling notes.

    • Upload any MIDI or MusicXML file to practice music with, and it will show both Falling Notes and Sheet Music notation.

    • Set any custom time-range and loop practice it. It will remember the time-range for when you re-visit the song.

    • MIDI Editor - create new songs and edit your performances/recordings.

    • MIDI Loop - loop your playing and layer in different SoundFonts.

  • Customizable themes

    • Stunning visuals & particle effects that move in sync with the tempo of your playing.

    • Upload video files as the background.

    • 3D camera customization - slant/rotate your 3D piano and effects however you see wish.

    • 3D sheet music visualization with glowing orbs and 3D lighting effects.

  • QWERTY features

    • Auto-play QWERTY sheet music (semi-auto included).

    • Typing game modes, where falling notes (and sheet music based notation) are also shown with QWERTY notes.

    • Velocity settings such as predictive or random velocity, adjust velocity curve and more.

    • Transpose detection - press TAB to auto-transpose to the next auto-detected transpose in QWERTY sheets, or hold transpose and press a number to manually jump to a specific transpose.

    • In-game notepad for you to load or edit QWERTY sheets, with transpose tools and OCR.

    • Convert MIDI files to QWERTY.

  • Customizable Audio

    • Customizable reverb & equalizer audio effects.

    • Upload custom SoundFont (.sf2, .sf3) files, VST3 support and ASIO support.

    • Load multiple SoundFonts simultaneously (e.g. one for left-hand vs right-hand).

    • Create your own SoundFonts (by loading an MP3 or WAV and it will let you export a SoundFont file)!

  • Community

    • Discord community server, chat and share tips about piano.

    • Dedicated website and regular social media content.

    • Pay once and it's for a lifetime: all updates in the future will be free as part of your one-time purchase (instead of DLCs), with a heavy focus on user-feedback as seen on the news.

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