What is the Virtual Piano?

A virtual piano keyboard is perfect when there isn't a real piano or a keyboard at home or when your piano or keyboard isn't next to a computer. The online piano keyboard simulates a real piano keyboard with 7 1/4 octaves of 88 keys (only five octaves for mobile devices), a sustain pedal, ABC or DoReMe letter notes representation, a Metronome, zoom-in, and a full-screen mode.

How to use the Virtual Piano keyboard?

Use your computer mouse or keyboard to play the virtual piano keyboard (or the device touch screen for mobile devices). You can view the corresponding computer keyboard letters by activating the “Real Keys“ feature. For the entire keyboard spectrum, click it twice. If you got the hang of it and are interested in playing your favorite songs using the virtual piano keyboard, use the OnlinePianist piano lessons or mobile app (iOS app, Android app).

What features does the Virtual Piano include?

Real Keys Indicate the corresponding computer keys for the middle octaves & piano keys of a real piano. (turned on by default) Max Keys Indicate the corresponding computer keys for the entire spectrum of a piano keyboard. (Tap once on the “Real Keys” feature to activate it. Sustain Simulates a piano's sustain pedal. Use the sustaining feature to let the sounds freely continue until they naturally cease.(turned on by default) Letter Notes Use the letter notes feature to display ABC or DoReMi letter notes on the piano keyboard keys. Metronome The Metronome feature enables you to play at a regular tempo. Use it to improve your timing. You can adjust the Metronome based on BPM (beats per minute) or time signature. Zoom in / out Switch between five octaves & 60 keyboard keys (turned on by default) and a full piano keyboard display of 7 1/4 octaves & 88 keys Full Screen You should know what this one does ;)

Palette Generator

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How to Use

Use the palette chooser to create a series of colors that are visually equidistant. This is useful for many data visualizations, like pie charts, grouped bar charts, and maps.

Note: there are two other modes besides palette mode – check out single-hue scales and divergent scales as well.

Creating visually equidistant palettes is basically impossible to do by hand, yet hugely important for data visualizations. Why? When colors are not visually equidistant, it’s harder to (a) tell them apart in the chart, and (b) compare the chart to the key. I’m sure we’ve all looked at charts where you can hardly use the key since the data colors are so similar.

For instance, Google Analytics does a terrible job with this:

Google Analytics stacked bar chart with low-contrast colors — Just try to use this key. I dare you.

It’s better to use use a range of hues so users can cross-reference with the key easier. It’s far simpler for our brains to distinguish, say, yellow from orange than blue from blue-but-15%-lighter.

Google Analytics stacked bar chart redesigned with equidistant colors — Ahh! Much better.

This color picker allows you to specify both endpoints of the palette. You can choose at least one to be a brand color, which gives you significant flexibility in creating a palette that will work for your visualizations, yet be customized for your brand.

Here are a few tips for getting the best palette:

Try picking very different endpoint colors – e.g. one warm, one cool; one bright, one darker – so that your palette covers a wider range
If you’re using a brand color for one endpoint, don’t be afraid to modify the saturation and brightness a bit if it creates a more pleasing palette. Users will recognize your brand color by its hue much far more than by it’s exact saturation/brightness.
For data visualizations where you’re showing the strength of a single value, try using the Single Hue Palette Generator instead.

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