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Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

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Post by EastLondonCoder »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #23

So want something like this but where the tracks are in the cloud. I want to "check out" someone's drum loop and add a guitar riff. Check it into a branch. Someone else checks out the drum+guitar, adds a bass line. Checks in. "Jamming" with other people is one of the most fun things. To the degree that you can "get close" on the web… RiffHub, anyone?

I’m working on something close to that. At the moment it’s just for ableton. The idea is to be able to sync a daw project, binaries will be saved on cloudflare and then use git for certain cases where it’s possible to merge. In case one person is working on a bass line and another is working on a guitar part. I’ve been using git for this workflow but the idea to have use interface that’s legible for non git users

Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

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Post by whycome »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #23

So want something like this but where the tracks are in the cloud. I want to "check out" someone's drum loop and add a guitar riff. Check it into a branch. Someone else checks out the drum+guitar, adds a bass line. Checks in. "Jamming" with other people is one of the most fun things. To the degree that you can "get close" on the web… RiffHub, anyone?

Apple will certainly jump on this. They already have GarageBand and they are making the hardware more accessible in the form of the Neo MacBooks. They are good at capitalizing on that FOMO power. And by making it a part of GarageBand (which already makes use of iCloud), they can keep it in their ecosystem. Collaboration is already doable with shared files, but I’m sure they can streamline the process

Edit: and another comment alerted me to the existence of live jam sessions, so this would be a possible extension of it

Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

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Post by jrm4 »

em-bee wrote: post #46
jrm4 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hehe ditto I get flak for this, but Audacity is my "proof" that GIMP's name is why people don't use it, not the UI. Like GIMP, Audacity's UI is awful, but people still use it. :)

people use gimp too. and i bet there are more gimp users than audacity. as for the UI, i don't get it. what's so bad about it? and how is this one better? i looked at both and ardour too. so far audacity is the only one that has a feature to detect silence and label it. it's pretty easy to use too. i use this to detect chapters and create a chapter index for audio books. last one i did this week took only a few minut…

Have you tried Ocenaudio (which is roughly the same as old school Cool Edit/Audition?)

Far more intuitive, I think. Keyboard shortcuts and cutting and pasting similar to what you'd get in e.g. Word.

Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

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Post by jrm4 »

darkstarsys wrote: post #93
em-bee wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

people use gimp too. and i bet there are more gimp users than audacity. as for the UI, i don't get it. what's so bad about it? and how is this one better? i looked at both and ardour too. so far audacity is the only one that has a feature to detect silence and label it. it's pretty easy to use too. i use this to detect chapters and create a chapter index for audio books. last one i did this week took only a few minut…

I spend a lot of time doing this too -- cutting up band rehearsal tapes into songs and exporting all. As weird as Audacity's UI is, I haven't found anything better than it at this.

Again, try Ocenaudio. I'm old enough to have used Cool Edit/Adobe Audition. Similar flow to those.

Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

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Post by danilocesar »

coldcity_again wrote: post #89
JKCalhoun wrote: post #23

So want something like this but where the tracks are in the cloud. I want to "check out" someone's drum loop and add a guitar riff. Check it into a branch. Someone else checks out the drum+guitar, adds a bass line. Checks in. "Jamming" with other people is one of the most fun things. To the degree that you can "get close" on the web… RiffHub, anyone?

For a realtime-ish solution I wonder if you've seen Ninjam[1]? It used to be that most evenings one could find various populated rooms; the serverlist[2] shows that the infrastructure's all sat there ready for people to come. You play over the most recent (eg) 16 bar repeat. At the end of each repeat, everyone gets the updated loop. It's easier to experience than describe but is surprisingly effective and bypasses a…

There's an open-source wahjam btw.

Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

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Post by whateveracct »

esikich wrote: post #55
JKCalhoun wrote: post #23

So want something like this but where the tracks are in the cloud. I want to "check out" someone's drum loop and add a guitar riff. Check it into a branch. Someone else checks out the drum+guitar, adds a bass line. Checks in. "Jamming" with other people is one of the most fun things. To the degree that you can "get close" on the web… RiffHub, anyone?

Idk if the GitHub analogy really works for music. With software, the code is a tool. And you can give the code away and still make money on hosting, support, enterprise sales, consulting, recruiting, whatever. With music, the stem is the product. If the drum loop is mediocre, nobody cares. If it's actually good, the creator usually wants ownership, licensing, royalties, exclusivity, or at minimum, attribution. But ev…

some people liked github because it was fun to share code. it wasn't all a funnel to compensation..

Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

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Post by pantelisk »

Abhi0501 wrote: post #105

Really cool project! Been looking for a browser-based audio editor. How does it handle large file sizes?

I just tried it with a 2 hour podcast file, since more people asked about long files. It is performs great on chrome on my pretty powerful macbook. Some operations are a little slow and zooming in to max level starts to be slow, default things like cut/paste, apply fade effect and volume controls to areas of the file feel ok.
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