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

Post by coldcity_again » Mon, May 25, 2026, 11:03 AM UTC

hnuser wrote: post #40

looks vibe coded

Post by darkstarsys » Mon, May 25, 2026, 11:06 AM UTC

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…

Post by radarsat1 » Mon, May 25, 2026, 12:48 PM UTC

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…

Post by conradfr » Mon, May 25, 2026, 1:42 PM UTC

pantelisk wrote: post #86

conradfr wrote: post #85

Cool work, the weird part is effects being item based instead of track based and that selecting an effect stops the playing and you apply it blind.

Thanks for your comment :) you can press "preview" (and there is a little on/off) in the effect's modal window. But I agree with you, an automation type system that operates on the entire track might be better

Post by dwa3592 » Mon, May 25, 2026, 2:08 PM UTC

conradfr wrote: post #84

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?

If that's just "turn-based collaboration" use the same DAW and a shared Drive/Dropbox/Whatever.