Sometimes Steam will take a screenshot while playing certain MIDI files.
I have set my Steam screenshot shortcut to none but it still takes pictures.

Two MIDI that seem to reproduce this issue, pick your poison:
https://mega.nz/#!WqhUAAZB!zyrnHQIJKDI9aXHFdKgl3uP3V6c8vhX_zuyHjyb6718

after rewinding to any time on song the slider twitches to previous position (mine almost always twitches to first ~30 seconds of song and then back to time i set) ((this happens every ~1 second))
with any songs

As soon as I click play, the bot tabs into Warframe and then immediately cancels/deselects the song.

Combined with the lack of drag-drop support, the lack of playlists and the file unloading when played can be very annoying.

I downloaded the code and implemented this.

If you want to take a look, modified project zip is attached.

Sorry for not using github's methods of files, I frankly have no idea how github works.

ShawzinBot-Fred.zip

If I hit play, on any midi file, it will begin playing on the program, but never switch to warframe, so no keys are being sent to the game. I cannot technically verify if any keys are being hit. If I click, or hit any key at all, the program pauses playback of the midi. I cannot alt+tab to the game, or click over to make it the active window. This occurs both while running as administrator and not.

For reference I am using a simple test MIDI file (Mary had a little lamb), and although it plays back through the interface fine, it does absolutely nothing but open Warframe. For reference, I have the Tiamat Shawzin equipped and ready, with both the number keys and mouse buttons mapped to the strings, and the arrow keys and N-L-M mapped to the frets, but no input attempt is being made by Shawzin Bot.

The scales are matched, no MIDI input device is selected (as none are available), and under MIDI tracks I have the option of toggling "piano" which I leave toggled on.

I am running it as administrator, and have tried it using other MIDI files too - is there some part of the config I am missing completely?

When I would try to minimize or alt+tab to warframe after selecting play, it would stop playing the midi and no notes would be transposed. how do i fix this?

I click the button in the top left corner and it opens the file explore menu but it doesn't show any of my midi files.

Submenu does not exist.

an update is needed to improve the compatibility with the newly added Shawzins.
Currently im forced to Edit songs and scale up or down entire rows in order for them to work.

Hello!

I'm trying out the new version with the new scaling, but it's skipping a bunch of notes. Is this because of the new scale, or because of some shawzin note limitation?

Hopefully not the second, because then DE is flat out evil having ruined my ability to play songs I make with MIDI... 😞

Hello, I've been trying to port your project into one for Genshin Impact's Lyre.

I don't know much about music theory, so I would like some help on how I'd do it. I mostly just experimented, and I ended up changing just the part which key corresponded to which note, as well as remove vibrator and mostly keep the transposition code intact.

Unfortunately, there is no such thing as flat notes or sharps in the lyre so it sounds like this:

The keyboard layout of the lyre is

QWERTYU
ASDFGHJ
ZXCVBNM

In turn, I asked someone with some music knowledge to help me and I ended up with this format, I don't know if it's exactly correct though, but here is an example of how it sounds like.

private static readonly Dictionary<int, VirtualKeyCode> lyreNotes = new Dictionary<int, VirtualKeyCode>
{
    {45, VirtualKeyCode.VK_Z}, // A2
    {47, VirtualKeyCode.VK_X}, // B2
    {49, VirtualKeyCode.VK_C}, // C2
    {50, VirtualKeyCode.VK_V}, // D3
    {52, VirtualKeyCode.VK_B}, // E3
    {54, VirtualKeyCode.VK_N}, // F#3
    {56, VirtualKeyCode.VK_M}, // G#3

    {57, VirtualKeyCode.VK_A}, // A3
    {59, VirtualKeyCode.VK_S}, // B3
    {61, VirtualKeyCode.VK_D}, // C#3
    {62, VirtualKeyCode.VK_F}, // D4
    {64, VirtualKeyCode.VK_G}, // E4
    {66, VirtualKeyCode.VK_H}, // F#4
    {68, VirtualKeyCode.VK_J}, // G#4

    {69, VirtualKeyCode.VK_Q}, // A4
    {71, VirtualKeyCode.VK_W}, // B4
    {73, VirtualKeyCode.VK_E}, // C#4
    {74, VirtualKeyCode.VK_R}, // D5
    {76, VirtualKeyCode.VK_T}, // E5
    {78, VirtualKeyCode.VK_Y}, // F#5
    {80, VirtualKeyCode.VK_U}  // G#5
};

public static bool PlayNote(NoteOnEvent note, bool enableVibrato, bool transposeNotes)
{
    if (!IsWindowFocused(_lpWindowName))
        return false;

    var noteId = (int) note.NoteNumber;
    if (!lyreNotes.ContainsKey(noteId) && transposeNotes)
        noteId = TransposeNote(noteId);

    PlayNote(noteId);
    return true;
}

private static int TransposeNote(int noteId)
{
    while (true)
    {
        if (lyreNotes.ContainsKey(noteId)) return noteId;

        if (noteId < lyreNotes.Keys.First())
            noteId = lyreNotes.Keys.First() + noteId % 12;
        else if (noteId > lyreNotes.Keys.Last())
            noteId = lyreNotes.Keys.Last() - 15 + noteId % 12;
        else
            noteId++;
    }
}

It would be nice to have a button which we can click to signalize the bot that the Shawzin got set to "chromatic" scale again.
I use Ableton Live to send midi data to the shawzin bot but this would work with any other external midi source as well. When you restart the sequence and set the shawzin back to chromatic scale it tries to work from the last used scale. So the only way to start again from chromatic scale is restarting the bot.

An additional idea would be using an unused midi note like c-1 (midi note code 0) as a reset note as well.

As title says, the newest release of ShawzinBot immediately crashes on my system. Running Windows 7 64bit, and the previous version still works fine. Really happy to see this getting an update; I play around with it nearly daily, and have got a nice collection of MIDI's I play to my clan and squadmates, so thanks for making a wicked piece of kit!

Here is the crash log that windows spat at me:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: ShawzinBot.exe
Problem Signature 02: 2.2.2.3
Problem Signature 03: 94504a0b
Problem Signature 04: System
Problem Signature 05: 4.8.4001.0
Problem Signature 06: 5d37b3ae
Problem Signature 07: a25
Problem Signature 08: 21a
Problem Signature 09: N3CTRYE2KN3C34SGL4ZQYRBFTE4M13NB
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Would be nice if we can have a hotkey to stop playing midi.

In my case it seems to not let go of any arrow keys on the last note

If transpose is off, playback stops as soon as the next note is not within the playable range. Clicking play may produce one more note before stopping again, proving that there are subsequent notes still in range.

Out of range notes should be ignored and the application should continue to move on.

also i happened to notice that the frets dont seem to be playing properly have the keybinds changed or which ones do the program use

Whenever I attempt to load a midi file the program immediately freezes and a window saying "ShawzinBot has stopped working" pops up, followed by the program closing.

Visual Studio 2019 gave me a debug option so I let it run.

It stated:
"The application is in break mode
Your app has entered a break state, but there is no code to show because all threads were executing external code (typically system or framework code)."
Along with the following window:

can u make bot for undawn guitar?

as mentioned above. I tried to set the frets to mouse buttons (default keys now are left, down and right arrow keys), ran the bot w/ admin and still can't get it to work

No matter what midi i put in, no matter what octave i choose, it always sounds like some weird nightmare. I tried "Awesome God", the popular song. It doesnt work, at all. It sounds like circus music straight out of hell. Is the bot broken?

Some features I think would be helpful:

Pause/Play MIDI Shortcut

I think it would be helpful to have a shortcut to pause a MIDI file because trying to exit while one is playing can cause Windows shortcuts to activate or Warframe changes its resolution etc.

Reset ShawzinBot Button

I think adding a button to easily close and relaunch the program would be helpful incase something gets messed up while playing.

Default MIDI Input Config

I keep having to select my MIDI keyboard everytime I launch the program so I think it would be helpful to be able to change the default input or remember the last one you picked.

Thank you for this awesome program! Endgame has been achieved.

I tried recording a song with shawzin bot but it never let me change scale. for example, I started recording in chromatic scale and want/need to change to pentatonic minor but it never let me. it is locked in the scale you started to record.

Not always, but sometimes after playing in a Chromatic, playing again is all wrong and only putting in pentatonic major it sounds right.
Then randomly you need to put back in Chromatic

Might be unrelated to the bot itself but for some reason it doesn't use the Frets but it does send the input, so the problem might be with me or Warframe.
I do start the bot as admin, have the controls on default and can see that the input does come in, since when i open the menu while playing something it is selecting through the menu-tabs like when you use the arrow keys.
I don't have a way to see if the input itself isn't send anymore (which i don't think) or if my game just ignores the input for some reason.

Hey they've add a new scale today you've probs seen it by now but it kinda messes with every thing notes don't seem to transition the same way as they did before i.e. different notes are being played instead of the correct ones

the new control scheme for the shawzin makes it so that the bot doesn't work anymore, even when i rebinded the arrows to be the mouse buttons

When playing something like "Through Fire and Flames" the game will begin to heavily lag, even bugging the audio at times. is there a way to fix this, weather it be through the bot itself or in-game?

note: my game usually runs around 120fps. but when playing the songs that have many notes, it can go down to only 1-7fps

希望提供**版本的waframe支持。
Hope to provide Chinese version of waframe support.

仅需要将原来的 "Warframe" 窗口句柄修改为 "星际战甲" 即可。
You only need to change the original "warframe" window handle to "星际战甲".

谢谢。
Thank you.

Ahk version somehow was able to translate different volume of specific track of midi file (it useful you can adjust one instrument for better sound). Is it possible in C# version?

that's is, that's the bug, i tried to remove the screenshot key but that didn't work, warframe screenshots kept coming
v2.2.2.3

issue seems to be caused depending on midi, it defenitively happened with the rockfeller streets midi zipped below
Rockefeller_Street.zip
i personally have no idea why it's taking steam screenshots

Hi, I love concept of your bot and thanks for creating it <3

unfortunately it's not working for me, because of the problem described in the title.
I've tried different MIDI files and changing keybindings to N, L, M, as suggest in now closed thread, but nothing works :c

Thanks in advance for any help

Sometimes I stop a midi mid song so I can restart it from the beginning, but recently it has been going out of tune when I try to play it from the beginning, even if I switch back to chromatic again. This didn't happen before the Yo scale was added, I don't think.

Restarting the program entirely fixes this, but it's definitely something you might wanna check into.

If you play a midi to the end with Shawzinbot or pause it in the middle of the song, then play that same midi or any other midi, it will play out of tune even if you switch to chromatic again first. It works the first time, but it is kind of annoying to have to relaunch ShawzinBot every time you load up a new midi for it to work properly.

This has been an issue since the Yo scale was added in 2.1, if that's helpful information.

Possibly because of the outdated build, the lastest release does not use the sky/earth/water frets with the arrows, I'm assuming it still tries to use the mouse buttons, making it sound terrible.

Starting from E6 the transposing is incorrect. (See picture)

Certain MIDI files that have only 1 track, Track0 will crash the Bot.
Also if the file has multiple tracks the bot will not read Track0
in this case i had to create a New empty track and Move all the notes to it so the Bot doesn't skip them or crash.

When i open MIDI files, the program crashes.

H E L P

I would like to see support for opening files using Windows "Open with" and the default program/association support. I have created a fork and you can see the changes I have added to the repository. This would allow people to use shortcuts to the file, use command line args, use Open with, etc.

Hello there! After last Warframe update, all channels in midi file started to play together, no matter do I check them to play or not. That happens on every midi that I chose. Can you please check that? I'm not sure that exactly warframe hotfix can brake the way how bot decides what channels to play, so I also suppose that I'm doing something wrong.
That's very odd for me.
Thank you.

The Corbu and Tiamat Shawzins currently only play one note at a time instead of chords like the Nelumbo and Dax's/Mimica/etc. Would hope for chord compatibility to be added.

On startup of .exe file i'm getting:

On startup of a main .ahk script i'm getting(AHK itself is installed, and 2 other scripts launched with no issue):

As a midi i use USB MIDI interface, similiar to this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-MIDI-Interface-Cable-PC-to-Novation-25-SL-MK2-USB-MIDI-Controller-Keyboard-/161466292936
Midi is detectable and works in sound editing programs(Such as LMMS), and Internet Browsers.
Any tip?