Velo announcements

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Velo v2.6.2

Play the Player's song on the Practice piano.

Your play hotkey now works inside Practice: hit it in any Practice tab and the Player's selected song plays on that piano — lit keys, trails and sound — instead of clicking Play (preview). Made for recording Free play at the Player's own speed and position. Switch to your game and the song goes there, as always.

Also fixed

The MuseScore helper no longer gets stuck on "Reading the score…" when you paste a second link. It now tells a failed read apart from a page that is still loading, gives up in seconds instead of minutes, and swaps in a fresh window when its own goes unreadable.
Linux: the MuseScore and Online Sequencer helper windows no longer appear on screen during a search.

Velo 2.6.1

Velo 2.6.1 — seeking works again

just fixing a bug

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VeloScribe v0.4.0 for u guys. now have notifications and beep when finish the transcription!

hello, if possible, could we receive additional ideas regarding potential applications or bots for VeloMIDI?

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Velo v2.6.0

WE'RE BACK, BABY 🎹

Not with a patch. With the biggest drop Velo has had.

🎼 MuseScore, straight into your library

This is the one. Open the MIDI Hub, pick MuseScore, search a song or paste a
score link — and it lands in your library, ready to play. No browser, no
downloader site, no account.

• Browse, don't just search. Shelves, instrument and difficulty filters, and

cards that tell you the difficulty and the length before you commit.

• "in the archive · instant". Every score somebody brings in is shared, so

the next person to want it gets it with no waiting at all.

• "you already have this" marks on every source in the Hub — stop

downloading the same arrangement twice.

• Load more actually loads more, and no longer throws you back to the top.

🎚️ Tracks — the control that kept disappearing

Velo could always mute individual tracks. The problem was finding it: the chip
only appeared after you pressed Play, and the song Velo restores on startup
never got one at all. So people concluded the feature didn't exist. It's there
from the moment a song loads now, and when there's nothing to split it says so
instead of vanishing:

• one track → "Everything is on one track, so there is nothing to mute."
• still reading → it tells you it's reading, rather than hiding.

🎥 Recording-friendly mode

Some recorders and capture cards simply cannot see a GPU-drawn window — they
record a black box where Velo should be. Turn this on and Velo draws on the CPU
instead. Settings → Appearance. *(Windows only — it flips a WebView2 flag other
engines don't have.)*

✨ Visualizer

Five separate causes of stutter, all fixed. The worst: the clock ran while the
file was still being parsed — that's the *"the first song after opening always
freezes"* people reported.

Colours are one per track now, read from the file itself (Grand Piano, Bass,
Drum Kit…), up to 16. No more inventing six colours out of your two.

🍎 macOS

• Global hotkeys are back, rebuilt on the API that was always right here.

The one that matters isn't play/pause — it's Panic, your way out when a key
sticks in a game you can't type in.

• ⌘Q no longer walks away with your keys held down. It doesn't fire the

normal close path, so the teardown never ran — you could quit mid-song and
leave keys pressed in the game with nothing pointing back at Velo.

• ⌘V / ⌘A / ⌘Z reach Compose. They were eaten before the page ever saw them,

which made paste, select-all and undo unreachable in an editor.

• Dragging the window to a second monitor works.

🔧 Fixes worth naming

• The sustain pedal could hijack the transport. Velo presses SPACE for the

pedal — and a button you just clicked keeps keyboard focus, where SPACE fires
it again. One click on Next could walk the whole library, playing over itself
the entire way. Velo now refuses to send keys into its own window at all, and
the transport buttons no longer hold focus.

• Two arrangements of the same song no longer overwrite each other. They

shared a filename, so the first silently disappeared and the list kept one
entry pointing at the last. Files are named by arranger now.

• A score called CON, NUL or AUX no longer resolves to a Windows

device instead of a file.

• Velo asks the shared archive before opening any browser window.
• MuseScore import stopped clicking a related-score link instead of the button.
• Velo keeps a real log file now (Documents\Velo\velo.log), so a bug report has

something to look at instead of a description.

📋 Known limits, stated on purpose

• macOS is still a public beta. Drag Velo to Applications before you open

it the first time — permissions are tied to where it lives.

• **On macOS and Linux, a non-US keyboard layout can

… full notes on GitHub

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Velo v2.5.2

🍎 Velo runs on Mac now.

That's the headline. After Windows and Linux, Velo 2.5.2 brings macOS — Apple Silicon and Intel, both native, with the permission setup handled for you instead of left as homework.

It's an open beta, and we mean that plainly: every other platform got years of members finding things. This one has had none. It's here so that can start.

🐞 Found something on Mac? Open a ticket on the Discord server — not a message in chat, where it scrolls away. A ticket doesn't get lost, and we can ask you follow-up questions.

Also in this release: four bugs members found, all fixed.

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⬇️ How to download and open Velo

Find your system below and follow the steps in order — especially on Mac, where step 2 matters more than it looks.

🪟 Windows

1. Download Velo-win.zip from the Assets at the bottom of this page.
2. Right-click the .zip → Properties → tick "Unblock" → OK. Do this before extracting — Windows marks downloaded files, and that mark causes most "it won't start" reports.
3. Extract the folder anywhere: Documents, Desktop, wherever. Don't run it from inside the .zip.
4. Open Velo.exe.

"Windows protected your PC" → click More info → Run anyway. Velo is unsigned: a code-signing certificate costs about US$300 a year, and Velo is free.

Your antivirus called it a keylogger? It isn't, and the reason is honest. Velo reads your keyboard on purpose — that's the whole feature. It turns your typing into piano notes and can play a song into a game's on-screen piano. Technically that's the same low-level trick a real keylogger uses, and heuristics can't tell "makes music" from "steals passwords". Velo never records, stores or sends your keystrokes. You can check yourself: the only thing it ever contacts is GitHub, to look for updates.

If antivirus already removed a file, restore it from quarantine — usually Velo\_internal\pythonnet\runtime\Python.Runtime.dll — and add the Velo folder as an exception.

Requires Windows 10/11 with the WebView2 Runtime, already present on up-to-date Windows.

🍎 macOS

First, which Mac do you have? Apple menu → About This Mac.

• Chip: Apple M1/M2/M3/M4 → take Velo-mac-AppleSilicon.dmg
• Processor: Intel → take Velo-mac-Intel.dmg

The Intel build runs on Apple Silicon through Rosetta. The Apple Silicon build does not run on an Intel Mac at all.

1. Download your .dmg.
2. Open it and drag Velo into the Applications folder — before you open it.
3. Open Applications and double-click Velo. macOS will refuse, because Velo isn't signed with an Apple certificate.
4. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the bottom, and click Open Anyway next to the message about Velo. Confirm.
5. Velo will ask for Accessibility. Say yes — this is the permission that lets it press keys in the game. Without it the autoplayer runs and absolutely nothing happens.
6. macOS only applies that permission when an app launches, so Velo notices when you grant it and offers to reopen itself. Let it.

⚠️ Step 2 is not housekeeping. For an unsigned app, macOS ties the permission to where the app is. Open it from Downloads and move it to Applications later, and Velo silently loses that permission — the autoplayer stops working and nothing tells you why.

For the second permission (Input Monitoring, needed by the global hotkeys) and what to do if something looks dead, the full guide is in README-MAC.md.

Two limits that belong to macOS, not to Velo:

• A game in native fullscreen gets a Space of its own, and nothing can appear over it — not Velo, not anything. Keep the game in a window if you want the mini-player on top.
• Non-US keyboard layouts can play the wrong note. The Mac key path resolves

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Velo v2.5.1

A scan could empty your folders with no way back

Velo's Scan finds the MIDIs already on your PC and adds them to your library.
Adding moves the files — on purpose, so a song doesn't end up sitting on your
disk twice.

The problem was what came after. Velo only remembered where each file came from
until you closed the app. Reopen it the next day, find the folders you'd spent
years organising empty, hit Undo — and there was nothing left to undo with.

Nothing was ever deleted. But "it's all still there, somewhere in one flat
folder" is not much comfort when you had it sorted by composer.

Settings › Library now has a "Put back" button. It opens a list of every song
a scan moved and the folder each one goes back to. Tick the ones you want and
they go home. Not the whole import — just what you pick.

It works months later, it survives restarts, and it survives updates.

Also fixed

Removing two songs within a moment of each other gave them the same internal id.
Restore on one brought back both — and Delete forever, the only button in
Velo that really deletes a file, took the song you hadn't selected.

If your Trash already contains a pair like that, Velo repairs it on startup. You
don't have to do anything.

Before you scan

Velo's library is one flat folder. Your own subfolders aren't recreated
inside it. If you've sorted your MIDIs into folders you care about, **keep a copy
first** — Put back will rebuild them, but a copy costs you nothing.

The Scan card says this now too.

Install

Windows — download Velo-win.zip, extract the Velo folder anywhere you
like, run Velo.exe. Windows SmartScreen may warn on first launch: *More info →
Run anyway*. Velo isn't code-signed yet.

Linux — download velo-linux.tar.gz, extract it, and run:

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VeloScribe 0.3.0 — it can watch a piano tutorial now

🎬 Video → MIDI

Hand VeloScribe a piano tutorial video and it reads the falling notes straight off the screen, instead of guessing them from the sound.

That difference is real. Transcribing audio means working out by ear which notes are inside a chord, and quiet or buried ones get lost. The screen has no such problem — a bar is either there or it is not. So you get exact pitch, exact timing, and since the two hands are usually different colours, each hand lands on its own track.

What you have to do: nothing. Drop a video in, or paste a link. VeloScribe looks at it, finds the keyboard, and reads it. If there is no keyboard on screen — a normal music video, a live performance — it just listens, exactly like before.

It listens as well, and that is why it takes longer

When VeloScribe reads a video it also runs the full listening pass, then merges the two. The screen gives the notes; the sound gives how hard each note was struck and any note an overlay was covering. The card tells you how much the two readings agreed.

That is two passes over the same file, so a video takes roughly three times as long as plain audio.

🔇 Only care about audio? Turn it off

If you mostly convert songs rather than tutorials — or you simply want it fast — open Settings → Screen reading and switch it off. VeloScribe will then only ever listen, which is quicker, and it will not even download the picture half of a link.

You can always tell which mode you are in: with screen reading on, the Convert tab shows a "Screen reading on" badge in the corner.

⬆️ It updates itself now

VeloScribe checks for new versions and installs them with one click.

This is the real fix in this release. 0.2.0 sat here for a month with everything above already finished, because the app had no way to tell anyone a new version existed.

This one hop is still manual — download and run the installer below. It upgrades in place and keeps your settings. From 0.3.0 onwards it handles itself.

✨ Also new

• Letter sheets — Virtual-Piano letters, transposed so they are actually playable, with a difficulty rating
• Instagram links
• Third-party licences now ship with the app, as they always should have

⬇️ Install

Download VeloScribe-Setup-0.3.0.exe below and run it. No admin needed.

Windows may say "Windows protected your PC" — that is the unsigned-app warning, not a virus. Click More info → Run anyway. Everything runs on your own machine; nothing is ever uploaded.

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