Multiplayer Piano Wikia

This is a fan-made wiki about this website, which to some may seem confusing. Here are some quick and simple tips to get you started.

## **Getting Started**

Getting started can at first appear difficult, but it's rather easy. Here are some quick tips to get you started.

### **Introduction**

The first thing that happens when you connect is you are put into the lobby. When speaking of the lobby, usually we are speaking of a huge mess with a bunch of people playing random notes or 7 bots playing a lot of songs at once. The chat is often being spammed by long and stupid usernames. Along the top of the screen are the player bubbles which, upon being clicked on, will give you different options about each player. If you click on yourself, you can set your own username or nickname. If you click on other players, you'll see a few options: "Mute Notes", "Mute Chat", and "Mute Completely." You can choose these options to prevent annoying players from clogging up your experience.

Now that you can hear yourself, how do you play? Well, you can click on the notes with your mouse, but that's really inefficient and quite annoying. An even better way is to use your keyboard! Use *z*, *x*, *c*, *v*, *b*, *n*, *m*, *<*, *>*, and *?* to play the lower white keys, *a*, *s*, *f*, *g*, *j*, *k*, *l*, and *"* to play the lower black keys. Similarly, use *q*, *w*, *e*, *r*, *t*, *y*, *u*, *i*, *o*, *p*, *{*, and *}* to play the upper white notes, and use *1*, *2*, *4*, *5*, *7*, *8*, *9*, *\_*, and *+* for the upper black notes.

Along the bottom of your screen, you'll notice a drop-up menu (as opposed to a drop-down menu), a few buttons, and the number of people playing. To the right you'll see a volume knob. We'll go through each of these features now, excluding the obvious ones.

#### **Rooms**

Multiplayer Piano has different *rooms* which are different groups of players identified by a name. These rooms have tons of options to customize your experience, but before you go creating one, see if there's another room that might interest you. Click on the drop-up menu and you'll see a multitude of rooms that people have created. Here is the best place to get away from the chaos and make some new friends.

If you're dedicated to hiding from everyone, you can either create a "New Room" manually or use the "Play Alone" button. When using the play alone button, there is no previous setup required, you just hit the button and off you go! The room is automatically configured to not allow anyone else to enter. If you use the new room button, you are first presented to enter the name of your room and whether or not you want it to be visible. Then, hit "go" and your room has been created!

Once you've made a room, you may have noticed an extra button appear on that bottom bar: "Room Settings." Here you can configure different aspects about your room.

##### **Room Settings**

The first thing you'll see is a button that says "Drop Crown." The person who owns the room is the one with the crown symbol on their player bubble, and they are the one who controls the settings and also moderates the room. If you hit the drop crown button, you'll drop your crown onto the piano for anyone to pick up, allowing others to own your room instead.

The following options are fairly self-explanatory, such as the "Visible" option (which disables or enables visibility of your room in the dropdown), the "Enable Chat" option (which enables or disables chat), and the "Only Owner can Play" option (which only allows you, the owner, to play the piano). One nice thing about using the "Enable Chat" option is that you can still send your link to other people to join. This creates kind of like an "invite-only" room. Fun fact: you can also send the link for the "Play Alone" room you created for a similar feature.

Finally, there's the background color. Can you guess what this feature does? We'll let you experiment with it to see!

##### **Room Moderation**

To moderate your room is fairly simple. When a player joins, if you want them to leave you have a few options. Clicking on their player bubble now reveals an option to kickban. Here you can determine how long you want to ban the player from your room. And... that's it, it's as simple as that!

#### **Sound Select, MIDI, MP3, and Synth**

The "Sound Select' menu is a fairly simple - click on the button, choose a sound profile, and your entire piano will reload to play with that sound! From here, if you really enjoy your sound, maybe try connecting up a MIDI piano. Opening up the "MIDI In/Out" menu will allow you to - yes - enable MIDI input and output devices. Who knew! From here, if you're ready to create a mindblowing song that you're sure everyone will love, hit the "Record MP3" button to get raw audio from the piano itself. Or, if you're looking for a little bit of fun, enable the "Synth" and make some chiptune!

#### **Other Features**

##### **Octave Tweaking**

To switch between octaves while playing the piano, you can use the following keys: *shift* to raise an octave and *alt* to drop an octave. Alternatively, you can also use *ctrl* and *caps lock* to drop octaves, but this is not recommended since some browsers have many keyboard shortcuts for these and may conflict.

You can also switch octaves by using the *arrow keys*. This time, instead of having to hold the key, your octave change will be remembered.

##### **Sustain (hey, that's me!)**

By default, your notes are not sustained - that is, they will stop playing the second you let go of the key or your mouse. If you wish to sustain your notes, as you could when pressing the "sustain" pedal on an actual piano, either hold the *spacebar* or press *backspace*. Holding spacebar is like pressing the pedal, and pressing backspace is like putting ten bricks on the pedal to make sure it doesn't move. Please don't play this way. Or do, I can't stop you.

## **Easter Eggs**

Due to an overwhelming amount of abusive players, a lot of the classic MPP easter eggs have since been removed. However, if you discover any new ones, feel free to add them to the list below!

### **Your Own Lobby**

Did you know you can create your own lobby? While people won't be added to it automatically (that's reserved for "lobby"), any room you create with either "*test/*" or *"lobby*" at the beginning of it will be registered as a lobby. Cool, eh? This makes no difference to the functionality of the room, however.

### **Spinning Piano**

If you're prepared to have a seizure, including the word "*spin*" anywhere in your room name to make the piano spin like hell! Look at it go! Round and round and round and... ohh I'm getting dizzy.

### **One-Note Only Please**

If you change the end of your room in the URL to contain *#test* at the end, only one note of the piano will load. I wonder how many songs you can create with that? Combining this with the spinning piano makes a wonderful circling spaceship. Or pong paddle. Whatever floats your fancy.

### **Self-Vision**

Look ma, I can see myself! Add *#seeowncursor* at the end of any MPP URL to see your own cursor!

### **Piano Great and Soft**

Back in the classic days of MPP, you had to change your piano sounds using special tags in the URL. One of these sounds was a wonderful one called "Piano Great And Soft." Unfortunately, it was never re-added, but don't fret, Sustain is here! At this link you can get a script that, once pasted into console, will load up the sounds just as you remembered them!