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This article says that our limited time on Earth encourages us to be ourselves. That our eventual death is necessary for our ambitions, desires, and accomplishments (which then produce a concept of Self) and that those things are what make life worth living.

I would argue that how you view yourself is not what makes life worth living. Life is enjoyable and peaceful without desire or identity. Wanting to extend your life isn't a maladaptation. Your identity--maybe as a software developer, or as a good romantic partner, or as a virtuous person--is the real maladaptation. It results in attachment and thus eventual suffering. If you get fired from your software developer job, your ego takes a hit. If you get into a fight with your partner, you feel indignant.

You really don't need an identity to love one another or ambition to do hard things. We have an inner drive to be creative completely outside of how we view ourselves. We feel love naturally. You'll enjoy life without desires or Self.

I really appreciate the feedback, Bewelge, these ideas are all very helpful to me! I'll be making changes based on each one.

I haven't measured the latency directly. But, I did try this with my sister who lives across the US while also on a phone call with her. When she speaks or plays a note, I hear it through the app sooner than over the phone. So it's at least better than that!

Excellent suggestions, these ideas ring true to me. I'm going to start exploring this direction for growing the platform. Thank you very much!

Ah, great point--I'm adding that to my to-do as another setup option for users. Thank you!

Great suggestion! Thank you very much. I'll definitely keep this in mind when I make a proper demo video

Piano tutors who want to give an engaging remote lesson will want the ability to show themselves playing as well as what notes they're playing. This requires expensive equipment and technical knowledge to set up using Skype/Zoom. I give a few typical setups on the landing page and compare it to Keyboard Connect, which requires just a MIDI controller and webcam.

This represents a challenge for tutors and could be discouraging for new pianists who just want to try lessons without committing to buying a digital/acoustic piano are supporting AV equipment.

Also, I'll add modules to Keyboard Connect that support tasks tutors/students would normally have to organize on their own (lesson planning, file sharing, practice tools)

Thanks! Oh yeah I encourage you to mess around with it, especially if you have any interest in music production/education

Appreciate it castles, thank you!

Thank you! :D

It's meant for laptop or desktop at this time, but I will 100% look into adapting it for an iPad. I think the challenge might be connecting a midi device to it though.

Keyboard Connect is still in an early stage, so we don't support tutors advertising on the platform yet. Thank you for these suggestions!

Good point! Thank you

Hey, thanks! I'm a big fan of pianojacq!

Wrote it myself. It's a javascript object that loads in all the piano sounds and manages the audiocontext. When the MIDI note/velocity/pedal state updates, a method on the object is called to play the sound.

Appreciate it! I'd like to hear how it works out for you! I'm reachable at jeremy@keyboardconnect.com

I'll get to work on a video demo! The app has a sort of piano VSTI running in the browser, so what you hear will be reliably reproduced on the peer side.

Thank you! I'll definitely put together a video demo before requiring logging in. Showing live MIDI during a call sidesteps the challenge of showing and recording both yourself playing and what notes you're playing. Also, because MIDI is represented digitally, we'll be able to do things like chord/scale detection, recording and playing back, and showing live playing on sheet music.

Yes, it's supposed to, (as it does in the app) but I was a bit lazy hacking together that "demo" from stock footage and didn't animate the keys.

Thank you for the response. You're right, it didn't sit well with me putting a required log in between the landing page and the app. So I'll work on a more comprehensive video demo and make it accessible before signing up.

Ah, appreciate it. I totally spaced on cleaning up the landing page for mobile!