Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design

github.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 119 posts

Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design

#11

Post by efnx »

dominotw wrote: post #8

I would really like the equivalent of Unity in the DAW world. Let me script modulators/sound design while doing arrangement/mixing and stuff in UI.

In that case you may really like reaktor. I'm pretty sure it integrates with reason and you can do graphical or C programming for it.

Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design

#13

Post by peterrudenko »

efnx wrote: post #11
dominotw wrote: post #8

I would really like the equivalent of Unity in the DAW world. Let me script modulators/sound design while doing arrangement/mixing and stuff in UI.

In that case you may really like reaktor. I'm pretty sure it integrates with reason and you can do graphical or C programming for it.

Or Bitwig Studio - it has controller scripting API.

Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design

#14

Post by pierrec »

dominotw wrote: post #6
hashkb wrote: post #5

Finally 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 ?

Doing what you suggest would require closing and re-opening the project (which can take a while when working with GBs of samples).

Moving through the version tree could be as fast and efficient as undo/redo operations, which are usually instantaneous. In fact, DAWs already implement version control! It's just ridiculously limited, since all you can do is undo/redo. Depending on how they manage it internally, adding better version control features might not be that difficult. History and snapshots (a la Photoshop) would already be a vast improvement over what's generally available in DAWs.

Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design

#16

Post by wdfx »

hashkb wrote: post #5

Finally 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 ;)

Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design

#17

Post by adamnemecek »

Lol 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.

Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design

#18

Post by peterrudenko »

bmer wrote: post #9

Looks really cool to me! I love the beautiful UI -- what tools did you use to build it in C++? I am very interested in learning more about UI design in C++.

It's built with JUCE, all-encompassing C++ framework like QT, but smaller (and with lots of audio processing classes).

Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design

#20

Post by chrissoundz »

dominotw wrote: post #6
hashkb wrote: post #5

Finally 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 ?

Yes, but you won't get the intended output from a git diff or merge etc.
Post reply on HN