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Pianola

🎹 Smoothest piano roll visualizer 🎹


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⚖️ The Entertainer by Scott Joplin (Public Domain), GeneralUser GS SoundFont

🔥 Description

Pianola is an elegant and dynamic piano roll visualizer written in Python and GLSL Shaders, with a focus on quality, performance and visuals - powered by the shaderflow engine.

  • Spring physics model governing many animations, providing a realistic and organic feel to the visuals.
  • Unlimited rendering with any framerate, resolution, or supersampling you want
  • Commercial use allowed and encouraged, simply pick a sponsorship tier!

📦 Getting Started

🚧 Under maintenance (reworking website) • For now, either: 👷

Command line

Run with uvx pianola main

  • Export videos with pianola config --midi file.mid main --ssaa 2 --output output.mp4
  • Add your own audio pianola config --audio file.flac (...)
  • See options pianola main --help, pianola config --help

Dependency

Add into your pyproject.toml:

[project]
dependencies = ["pianola"]

Check usage in the Examples directory!

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