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Fantastic!! 🙌

I love it!

just started practicing this for classical guitar Cello Suites1-4 (arr Richard Wright) Cadenza music :)

Thanks for sharing, @DanielS _ .Beautiful piece, and the sound of e-cello here is amazing! What kind of amp do you usually plug it into?

@DanielS _ I'll post my version in about 20 years, after I've done some practice( if I'm still here that is)

@Cuantas Vacas I used line6 pod on clean sound with reverb, thats's all ;) But the secret is with the recording, compare line signal with the microphones signal.

@Stephen Gibson great to hear that! I'm interested to here Your interpretation on guitar.

@Colin Aiken @Hakon Sveinsson thank You 🙏

Ç'est magnifique!

Thanks to SoundGym (and their video courses), every single word in your answer makes sense to me!! 😄 I guess that's a way to re-create the natural resonance of an acoustic one...and very effective. I find the resulting sound of your instrument very satisfying, because it shows a whole new character that prevents me from constantly comparing the sound of acoustic cello I have stored in my memory...

@Cuantas Vacas exactly! Of course I can play this Bach on classical cello, with full sweetness of natural cello sound but…the classical interpretations are manny, but nobody recorded this piece on el. cello, so this is my point 😉

@Cuantas Vacas thank You for this comment! 🙏

@Stephen Craig thank You my friend!

That’s so beautiful 😍

nice

Congratualtions! You rattled through that!

Awesome Job

Thank you!!!)))

I can help you with the Morse code.

It looks like a temporary malfunction, although I'd love to see you in action, Colin!

So it looks like they're finally allowing us to use different instruments other than the default piano sound, which is great! Do you remember which instrument you had it selected for? Maybe it was just one that you weren't used to hearing in Melodix? Or maybe I just haven't purchased the new morse code instrument option yet lol.

On a possibly related note, it might just be my imagination, but that 'Bekshtein' piano in Melodix seems to sound a bit different than it used to. Maybe a bit brighter or 'chimey' sounding. I hadn't played in a few days, so maybe I'd just forgotten what it sounded like? Not sure. Being at one of the higher levels where you're tested with polyphonic melodies (two notes at once) I thought I'd gotten pretty accustomed to the tonal characteristics of that piano being I've got to extract two notes out instead of just keying in on one, but now it seems that the top note is more distinct and the bottom note is slightly more difficult to identify. Not complaining here, just an observation. I mean in the real world, you're not going to be given perfectly clear instrument sounds that always sound exactly the same anyway. I'm sure I'll adjust. Just kind of curious if anyone else happened to notice this as well. And like I said, it could just be in my imagination..

But yeah.. finally having more instrument options to chose from is great!

@brian. I didn't choose an instrument. I rarely think of that. Usually I get something random but, now that I think of it, maybe Melodix is always piano (?) I do think I noticed some different (perhaps improved) piano sounds on some games, but this thing didn't sound like a piano, plus there were weird overtones that made it hard to figure out what note they were supposed to be playing. It sounded maybe like one a very compressed audio similar to what you might hear on cheap mp3s, for lack of a better way of describing it.

@Catherine McKay ah, ok gotcha. Yeah, it certainly could've been a glitch. I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case. I only mentioned it because when I recently played Melodix, I was quite surprised to hear an instrument other than that same default piano (which yes, up until just recently Melodix has always been only piano regardless of which instrument you selected) so it kind of threw me off at first to hear something different.

@Catherine McKay: Melodix does NOT always use piano. It picks a random instrument, like other games, so if you don't explicitly pick the instrument, you might get one you don't like. I just confirmed this by going to the app entry screen and reloading it several times -- it had a different instrument checked each time I reloaded. I suspect if you explicitly pick the instrument you want (I always use piano myself), then your problem will go away.

@Victor Wilburn I believe she was referring to my original comment about how Melodix, until just recently, USED TO be just piano. So when you left it random, or even if you selected another instrument, it would still play back the piano. But yes, that has now changed and Melodix functions like all other games allowing you to pick from whatever instruments you have available.

I think all the info all of you provide in your comments is probably right, as long as I know right now, after testing it myself.

I'm almost sure that Melodix didn't allow users to choose an instrument to play with, unlike the rest of games, when it came out (I was there, but I've been using Beckstein piano as my only instrument for TG since week 1, so I just have some vague memories about being surprised from this fact). Back then, the page didn't even show the standard list of instruments to choose from: you were forced to play with a certain piano sound with an annoying sustain time, what makes it hard to know which piano (Beckshtein, Bergson or Steinmay) was the sounds from.

I've recently read comments that led me to think that Melodix might be offering the standard list of instruments to choose from, but again I went with my own business and didn't check it out.

During the tests I have done minutes ago, I have confirmed @Brian Blades ' point: now you can play Melodix with any instrument you own. Then I've chosen the Vok keyboard and entered the game to confirm my suspicions about 'overtones' that @Catherine McKay described: I believe it's the SUSTAIN, present only in this game, that blends one note's tail with the attack of the next one, that's producing that effect that might resemble natural overtones depending of the adjacent notes' pitches. Do you think this might be the case?

Accidentally, I've noticed an improvement in the quality of the sound of those instruments I've tried today, compared to the time when I chose to ignore them for doing workouts (2 years ago some of them were unusable for any game involving stacked notes, and some were just annoying and therefore distracting).

I hope this helps! And it would also be nice to discard the alien thing...

Melodix has been one of my top two most played games since joining Tonegym, and probably my most played game over the past couple months. I've tried on numerous occasions to select another instrument only to have it play back the piano sounds once the game starts. So unless there was some sort of glitch on my account (and possibly others accounts) I am confidant in saying that previously, Melodix only allowed you to play the game with that piano sound (despite allowing you to select other instruments). I'd say this change happened over the past week or so.

Referring to my previous comment about change in piano sound. I just went to the 'Melody Trainer' area of the program (basically the same thing as Melodix but allows you to adjust the settings for 'practice') and I can confirm with 100% certainty that the piano sounds there are a different piano than the sounds I now get when selecting the 'Bekshtein' in Melodix (I'd always just assumed Melodix used the Bekshtein since that seems to be the default instrument here). I just purchased the 'Bergson' out of curiosity, and it's not that one either. So maybe it was the Steinmay that Melodix had previously played back before allowing you use different instruments? Not sure. My suspicion is that Melodix previously was not programmed in a way that allowed playback of different instruments, and possibly used it's own unique piano sound that was completely different from the other three available models. Basically it's own Melodix piano sound.

@Cuantas Vacas the sustain that remains hanging around once the next note plays is quite annoying and definitely makes the game more difficult. This is even more pronounced when one gets to the the polytonal/2 notes at once levels. For example, if one of the previous two notes was an F, and one of the next notes is a B, your ear is going to hear a tritone because that F note is still ringing out. Or if the next two notes are the minor interval A plus C, it will take on a major quality because that F note is still ringing out (thus making your ear hear an F major chord). This has definitely caused me to get a few answers wrong. I realize that in the 'real world' you're not going to get perfect separation of notes, so I guess it is what it is. But it would be nice if they could possibly eliminate the sustain thing here for training purposes. But that's a whole different conversation. I'd previously thought to bring this up on several occasions, but since you mentioned it in your comment, I figured I'd throw in my 2 cents..

First click on your pictorial in the upper right side. Select account settings. Select training preferences . In the window uncheck exercices you don't want in your daily workout.

Maybe you need to use a different browser if the mic doesn't work on one (?) Or maybe you should submit a report to the help centre.

I had the same situation, a day later, after completing another workout, it got better :)

Congrats!

Thanks!:)

Holy smokes! Didn't I just congratulate you on your Silver Ears yesterday? Wow! Thant's just amazing!!!

Oh yes, you did... wow I've just realized I got too addicted to these games:)

They are fun but this also shows you have a good ear.

@Catherine McKay I've got pretty far in Notationist so that I'm now onto identifying 4-note chord inversions but I've plateaued at that point. You definitely have to be very fast which might not be the best way to learn for some people.

Melodix is the one I'm most frustrated about. I too find the patterns they give very stale and unmusical and therefore harder to remember (though my recall for 8 note long melodies isn't very good anyway). I wish you could choose different instruments, different keys and that the melodies were better and sounded more musical. It's most frustrating because I think the main concept of the game is great and it could be one of the most useful games but the above things are holding it back.

I don't dislike melodix but the interface isn't very easy on the eye.
I do dislike notationaist. I have no application for it in real life but I did study classical music for a while so I could read sheet music and there was a time i was able to sight read and play pretty smoothly. but now I have to learn to either use the shortcut keys or use the mouse fast enough. Can read the notes but not a big fan of clicking. Actually I'll disable that game right now

I think ToneGym thinks I hate Rhythmania because it never gets added to my daily workout!

How do you disable a game? There are a couple I would like to do that with.

click on your profile pic at the top right corner, select Account settings.
Select Training Preferences, disable any game then click Update

Now, thanks to Seighart Bui, I learn that you can disable games, which probably means you can enable them too. Strangely enough, Melody Jay has never come up in my daily workout, even though it is enabled. There are a bunch of things in settings that I was unaware of until today.

Yeah, Melody Jay literally never came up for me either until I deliberately started choosing it in the gym. Again, even though all games were enabled, like you.

I don't hate the inversionalist game, but it's the one I struggle with the most at the moment - I'm stuck on level 2. I wish there were more chances to hear the notes individually.

Melody Jay has never come up in my daily workouts as well.

To offer a different experience - I get Melody Jay in my daily workouts but never get Departurer.

@Joe Brewer, I had a LOT of trouble getting started with inversionalist so I open up Chord Player in a different tab and play the chord in its different inversions there. That has helped enormously to get me past the first few levels and on from there. People say to listen for the bass note but often I can't really hear it, so I have to use the hints. Either my hearing isn't all that great (not surprising, especially given my age), or the sound on my computer isn't good (likely). Sometimes my brain fills in a bass note and it IS one of the notes of the chord, but often not the bass note.