Cricket Pi

Cricket Pi

Cricket Pi is a voice-controllable MIDI player with playback, tempo, and volume control. Along with features including metronome and alarm clock (to remind you when to practice), Cricket is a cute and amazing "little" accompanist for violin students.

What inspired you to make this project?:
My 5-year old sister has just started violin lessons, and very often, I have to accompany my sister. While I consider that to be interesting, it is not fun when you have to do that thirty times in a row. Also, with only two years of violin lessons behind me, I’m not the perfect Mr. Accompanist. However, all the MIDI players we could find aren’t that helpful, so we resorted to using Youtube. That worked, but then sound quality and flexibility for speed (0.5 speed was too slow and 0.75 was too fast) became a problem. It's also not fun when the electric piano is playing an accompaniment and one makes a mistake on even a single note - the electric piano has absolutely no sympathy when it comes to errors. Therefore, I want to create the Cricket Pi, a voice-controllable MIDI player with playback, tempo, and volume control on a Raspberry Pi.

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