Show HN: Warp, a Python based music-theory aware MIDI sequencer
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Re: Show HN: Warp, a Python based music-theory aware MIDI sequencer
#2Hi everyone,
I've been making music with synthesizers for a long time, and I always saw great ideas in DAW tools and in hardware, but never all of those ideas in one place. I wanted more music theory awareness in my compositional tools, like the ability to access easy scale changes. I wanted patterns to be symlinks, and to make it easy to have multiple patterns in a single clip.
I wrote Warp to make it happen. Today there's a Python API that can make full songs, and the work on the UI is getting started, which will be available this Fall.
The Python API doesn't technically even require using a loop, so it should be accessible to programmers who aren't Python experts.
Let me know if there are questions, and if you'd like updates, you can also follow @warpseq on twitter.
Re: Show HN: Warp, a Python based music-theory aware MIDI sequencer
#3Hi everyone, I've been making music with synthesizers for a long time, and I always saw great ideas in DAW tools and in hardware, but never all of those ideas in one place. I wanted more music theory awareness in my compositional tools, like the ability to access easy scale changes. I wanted patterns to be symlinks, and to make it easy to have multiple patterns in a single clip. I wrote Warp to make it happen. Today…
Neat project! You might find TheoryBoard interesting[1]. It's a midi controller that tries to embed knowledge of scales.
[1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/irijule/theoryboard-thy...
Re: Show HN: Warp, a Python based music-theory aware MIDI sequencer
#4Hi everyone, I've been making music with synthesizers for a long time, and I always saw great ideas in DAW tools and in hardware, but never all of those ideas in one place. I wanted more music theory awareness in my compositional tools, like the ability to access easy scale changes. I wanted patterns to be symlinks, and to make it easy to have multiple patterns in a single clip. I wrote Warp to make it happen. Today…
Hello there. This looks interesting, but I think that from a promotional standpoint, your website needs screenshots or a video of the user interface for your program. It's cool that you can make this music with it, but I would like to quickly get a feel for how your program is used.
IMO, most people will want to see that before they invest time reading documentation or downloading and installing your software.
Just my two cents! I hope this is helpful.
Re: Show HN: Warp, a Python based music-theory aware MIDI sequencer
#5Hi everyone, I've been making music with synthesizers for a long time, and I always saw great ideas in DAW tools and in hardware, but never all of those ideas in one place. I wanted more music theory awareness in my compositional tools, like the ability to access easy scale changes. I wanted patterns to be symlinks, and to make it easy to have multiple patterns in a single clip. I wrote Warp to make it happen. Today…
Hello there. This looks interesting, but I think that from a promotional standpoint, your website needs screenshots or a video of the user interface for your program. It's cool that you can make this music with it, but I would like to quickly get a feel for how your program is used. IMO, most people will want to see that before they invest time reading documentation or downloading and installing your software. Just m…
Yep, that's true. For now there isn't a user interface and doing some youtubes about the API is definitely planned. the API will remain around forever though, and is useful for generative composition today.
Do a checkout and you can see quite a few song files in the examples dir which should be helpful in getting a feel for it. UI should be out in a few months and will be more photogenic for youtube and will also ship with some demo tracks showing how all of the patterns work.
Re: Show HN: Warp, a Python based music-theory aware MIDI sequencer
#6Hi everyone, I've been making music with synthesizers for a long time, and I always saw great ideas in DAW tools and in hardware, but never all of those ideas in one place. I wanted more music theory awareness in my compositional tools, like the ability to access easy scale changes. I wanted patterns to be symlinks, and to make it easy to have multiple patterns in a single clip. I wrote Warp to make it happen. Today…
Neat project! You might find TheoryBoard interesting[1]. It's a midi controller that tries to embed knowledge of scales. [1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/irijule/theoryboard-thy...
that's a cool interface - "impossible to play a wrong note" kinda leaves out the ability for intentional accidentals, but... not bad for a lot of things. Bonus points if they get the glowing holograms floating in the air working :)
Re: Show HN: Warp, a Python based music-theory aware MIDI sequencer
#7This is cool!
I've build a much cruder version that I use for generating chord sequences to bring into DAWS:
https://github.com/Miserlou/chords2midi
It even has voice leading, which required translating an "algorithm" written in German in the 1800's!
Re: Show HN: Warp, a Python based music-theory aware MIDI sequencer
#8I love the idea, but if successful, I don't how the Warp record label will feel about the name. https://warp.net
Re: Show HN: Warp, a Python based music-theory aware MIDI sequencer
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Neat project! You might find TheoryBoard interesting[1]. It's a midi controller that tries to embed knowledge of scales. [1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/irijule/theoryboard-thy...
that's a cool interface - "impossible to play a wrong note" kinda leaves out the ability for intentional accidentals, but... not bad for a lot of things. Bonus points if they get the glowing holograms floating in the air working :)
Yeah, true that wrong notes are sometimes the right thing to do!
and I would totally back that kickstarter if they had floating holograms
Re: Show HN: Warp, a Python based music-theory aware MIDI sequencer
#10"music theory aware"? Like...it snaps sequences to scales like every other decent sequencer? I can't actually tell why this is useful from the front page description.