How do I build on linux? Don't have debian.
You may check travis.yml (a bit hacky script but it's all I have for now).
Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design
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Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design
#22Finally a music tool with version control. I've been wishing for this to happen for so long! The first big player (Ableton etc) to integrate versioning will have a huge advantage.
Somewhat this. However, I am sometimes reminded by my more creative minded friends to abandon the rigid developer mentality of 'commit and keep everything ever; just in case' and instead follow a more creative focus on just making something. I have practically found that exploring too many ideas and branches ultimately delays the completion of any creative process ;)
What if the tool does the committing, and automatically does the commits as deltas? Something like the idea that the 'save' is fairly similar to the undo-redo data rather than some optimized object graph or optimized relational database representing one iteration.
Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design
#23Looks interesting. Trying to install it on my phone gets me a "Your device is not compatible with this version" in Android's Play store. What is it you are doing in this app that has special compatibility requiremrents? My phone has a modern qualcomm flagship cpu and latest android.
It only runs on tablets for now (i.e. requires a screen about 12x7cm at least). And yes, mobile versions are still quite incomplete, I put all my effort into desktop versions.
Aha makes sense. Where do I sign up for updates? :-)
Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design
#24Man do I miss native desktop apps. This is so well done!
Something like this could be a Guitar Pro killer if it had support for writing a score/tablature. Imagine being able to commit changes to a score and have your bandmates pull it down and review, add to it, etc... it could really change the way we write music, especially in a world where you don't have to be in the same room to record an album together.
Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design
#25"Most of the DAW interfaces often seem overcomplicated, and they only tend to get more and more bloated over time." How much can you simplify the interface and still make it do everything producers want to do? Garageband simplified the interface quite a bit compared to Logic, but even that can get complicated and ultimately isn't as flexible as other DAWs. I've been a fairly loyal user of Sonar and FL Studio for over…
It is possible to simplify the interface by reducing the number of tools without necessarily removing functionality.
The idea is to identify large sets of tools that can be replaced with a handful of powerful combinable tools to perform the same tasks - this is not always easy but if done well can end up not only simplifying UI but providing more powerful, intuitive tools and reducing unnecessary learning.
I think Modo has done this fairly well in this regard for 3D modelling and animation (programs which tend to be notoriously full of thousands of discrete tools).
This is not limited to DAWs. 3D animation packages, photo editing and video editing packages all historically have this problem... They grow these discrete tools to a large number, it increases the UI complexity, inevitably resulting in tons of stuff hidden under context menus and usually heavily resorting to mode based interfaces.
I had hoped this concept would become popular so that things like Photoshop and Illustrator could be simplified.
Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design
#26Lol I've been working full time on something like this and wanted to go commercial with it. But it still seems different enough. But the UI is too similar. Btw is that really a Wintersun song loaded in the screenshot? It does look like it could be a Wintersun song. I'm actually kinda inspired by Jari's workflow so I'm guessing I'm not the only one lol.
The developer has a song named "Winter Sun". As a fellow Wintersun fan, I was excited too, but then realized it was not the same.
Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design
#27Finally a music tool with version control. I've been wishing for this to happen for so long! The first big player (Ableton etc) to integrate versioning will have a huge advantage.
Can't you just commit your ableton projects in git ?
There's a LOT of binaries involved (in the sense of large .wav files at least), and I doubt the Live file format particularly lends itself to text-based version control
Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design
#28"Most of the DAW interfaces often seem overcomplicated, and they only tend to get more and more bloated over time." How much can you simplify the interface and still make it do everything producers want to do? Garageband simplified the interface quite a bit compared to Logic, but even that can get complicated and ultimately isn't as flexible as other DAWs. I've been a fairly loyal user of Sonar and FL Studio for over…
I think the analogy is "In the music world, we have the choice between the equivalent of XCode or Visual Studio to compose - here's Atom."
Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design
#29Finally a music tool with version control. I've been wishing for this to happen for so long! The first big player (Ableton etc) to integrate versioning will have a huge advantage.
Yes! With branches to try things out. It's hard to get the interface easy, even for text, but this would be great in principle.
Version control is the one of the most important ideas with the least uptake among regular people.
Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design
#30Finally a music tool with version control. I've been wishing for this to happen for so long! The first big player (Ableton etc) to integrate versioning will have a huge advantage.
Can't you just commit your ableton projects in git ?
I do that all the time with my Renoise projects. Big files sometimes, so not perfectly efficient, but nonetheless it works great.