I spent some time a few years ago with the Adventus Interactive Piano Suite using my disklavier as the midi instrument.\ufffd It is reasonably good software although I feel it is aimed more at children than adults.\ufffd
My preference in terms of software for learning to play the piano for use with the disklavier is Voyetra's Teach Me Piano (http://voyetra.com/site/products/tmp/tmp_dlx.asp) and here is a link to one of several reviews that I found in Google: http://piano-lesson-software-review.toptenreviews.com/teach-me-piano-review.html.
When I retired about five years ago, I spent my first year with my disklavier as my teacher using this software.\ufffd\ufffd I completed the entire course of 150 lessons in about 14 months and had learned to play all 75 of the pieces in the course.\ufffd I found that the disklavier's ability to play one part while I played another to be of considerable help in learning a piece, especially a piece with rhythmic complexities (e.g. dotted note rhythms). The Voyetra software will also score your performance of the music in this courseware on both pitch accuracy (i.e. did you play the right note) and on rhythmic accuracy.\ufffd The former (pitch accuracy) is 100% reliable.\ufffd The later (rhythmic accuracy) is not reliable for any but the most simple pieces.\ufffd In other words, once you start playing pieces with a complicated left and right hand, it is necessary to simply ignore the rhythmic scoring that the software assigns to your playing.\ufffd Bottom line: if you are a beginning piano student (as I was) then the disklavier with software such as this is a very good way to begin learning to play the piano.\ufffd However, it is no substitute for a good teacher, as I found when I began taking lessons when I finished the Teach Me Piano software and have continued to do so ever since.\ufffd I'll be happy to go into greater detail on any of the above if you wish to contact me by private e-mail.\ufffd
Tom
Jim Schelling wrote:
Has anyone had any experience with Adventus Interactive Piano Suite in \ufffdonline\ufffd mode? And, using the software with a Diskclavier?