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Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
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Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, it's part of the fun. Original version was 65kb (with just the single editor mode and all the filters, mp3/wav export etc). But then having to add flac codec, tempo estimators and finally the multitrack mode, made it closer to 100. When I started developing I was a little frustrated with how bloated the web felt back then so I took that direction, it's much better today though and it's no longer an issue, but I…
I appreciate the attention to efficiency and avoiding bloat. As a frequent audacity user I'm thinking I might end up using this for a lot of simpler tasks. That said the web offers such great techniques to maintain this. Passive loading of plugins for example could keep things snappy and light and load things when you need them. If you want the perspective of a prospective long term user: I'd be very comfortable usin…
All very good points, not much to say I agree with you. With loading plugins on demand it could grow in size without affecting load and experience (and since offline mode is a separate link that would still be fine to be a little larger since it's fetching the app locally).
Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
#43This is a very impressive undertaking. Great job!!!
Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
#44Awesome tool. Is this the a new version? I used this few weeks ago and it looked a bit different.
Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
#45So 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?
Yes. I’ve wanted something like this for a while. I’ve always wondered why there isn’t version control for DAWs. So many times I’ve spent hours editing a track and accidentally saved it without specifying a unique file name. Only to open it later and wish I could go back to before the changes that fucked it up.
The good version controls used for code & text are line-oriented; most DAW session file formats are semantically scoped, and so the VC tools won't work well.
Most DAWs allow you to "snapshot" a session at any time, and return to it as you want to. Certainly Ardour does that.
Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try Ocenaudio - I’ve used pretty much every audio editor free and paid for and this is my go to for a free editor. I also cannot understand why anyone would recommend Audacity.
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 minutes, and most of the time was typing the chapter titles into audacity. i could not figure out how to do this in ardour or audiomass
Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
#47what is the theoretical file size / project size limit? what happens when the browser crashes?
I usually use it to edit audio tracks quickly up to 10 minutes long, though I have received nice emails from people who have used for 1hr+ podcasts successfully (though certain heavy operations wouldn't be very fun to use). For multitrack sessions, there is the ability to export to a .amss file that contains all the settings, markers, tracks etc. For single track edit... it would just crash right now. There is alread…
i managed to load a 12 hour book. it took some time to load, but once loaded the UI remained snappy, so i guess it is usable. the only problem is that the waveform does not scale when i zoom in.
Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
#48So 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?
That reminds me of what Splice used to do
Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
#49So 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?
Bandlab Studio, maybe? Never used it, but might be what you're looking for. There's a web version and a mobile app. https://www.bandlab.com/creation-features
Bandlab is decent enough for this, yeah. It's not "version control" in the way that programmers are used to, not by any means. More like "Google Docs" but for a DAW session. Certainly good enough for "my brother who plays keys lives in a different city but we want to collaborate on something".
Re: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
#50Looks cool. It feels like an early web-based Logic Pro-style editor.