Synthesia

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What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “the synthesia YouTube pieces are great to visually recognise patterns”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-12

• “it was wrong as fuck in many places, but that's really not your fault, you only played what you thought was right, given what the synthesia video told you to play”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Reddit · 2025-05-09

• “Synthesia will allow you to learn which keys to press when, after much effort, but very little else. Further, those skills (I use the term loosely) will not translate to allowing you to play anything else.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-09

• “synthesia takes forever to read each note, and like someone else said, you can actually learn so much faster with sheet music”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-05-02

• “I proposed the we shift from Synthesia to Vyond for our video creation”

  NEGATIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-04-29

• “if you're incompetent and lazy like me, you can learn most of it with synthesia”

  LUKEWARM · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-04-23

• “I have improved musically using synthesia. I'm not an aspiring concert pianist or anything, but it has definitely helped me improve over the years.”

  POSITIVE · Reddit · 2025-04-22

• “start playing any song you want. Search up a "Synthesia tutorial for [insert song name]" on YouTube. I did this when I didn't want to learn sheet music. There is literally no shame in it.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-04-17

• “Common in learners who learn via synthesia. I also love to play darker & sinister sounding songs, most involving a lot of low notes… not great when paired with mashing the notes.”

  NEGATIVE · Reddit · 2025-04-11

• “Synthesia works just fine under Wine on my Manjaro Linux. It also works just fine under Proton on my Steam Deck.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Reddit · 2025-04-06

• “I am finding I'm improving leaps and bounds by practicing with Synthesia, because I don't have to focus on zooming and scrolling the sheet music as I play”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-04-01

• “AI tools like InVideo, Synthesia, Pictory, and Canva help in video editing, script generation, and voice-over. These tools make content creation fast and easy”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-03-24

• “Synthesia also teaches rhythm, which some people already have but others don't. You can learn rhythm because Synthesia shows how long each note is, and you can see it coming ahead of time.”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2024-08-03