Absolute Pitch Education

In Chordhopper, I am currently at the level where chord #26 (C major 7, the pitchfork) starts appearing. If I play only with the keyboard, I am able to finish it. However, if I move the mouse cursor over the chord's icon, the game crashes with this message: "An exception of class NilObjectException ...

I decided to look into this subject and found this: http://docs.xojo.com/NotePlayer (From what I gather, RealBasic is called Xojo now. I assume this is what you are actually using.) That's Xojo's NotePlayer method, which appears to be the only MIDI-related method available (apart from using FolderIt...

I'm referring to control change messages that are used to adjust "registered parameters," or RPNs. Out of the three that are defined by General MIDI, one of them adjusts the fine-tuning of a channel by as much as 100 cents. Here's how it's done: Set control 101 (RPN MSB, or most significant byte) to...

Well, there is another (and probably better) method that involves sending a series of six control change messages. Does Realbasic support those by any chance? (In case you don't know, control change messages are used to control stuff like volume, panning, and the sustain pedal, among other things. F...

Does Realbasic support the MIDI pitch bend command? If so, then perhaps you can use that to generate the microtones within ETC.

Yup. To be clear, it's not necessary to restart ETC entirely; switching to another game and then back to Chordhopper is sufficient.

This is still happening in ETC 7.0. It happens whenever the last chord is not one of the starting chords, you get it wrong, and then you start another round without first leaving Chordhopper. It seems like the game is remembering that you got the previous chord wrong and so plays that chord again, w...