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Re: Music Grid

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Post by kortilla »

__max__ wrote: post #209
irshadshalu wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 0 acknowledgement from OP. if it makes you feel any better, I am the author of the website and I posted the same exact link 9 hours before OP and it got 3 upvotes [0] . then I woke up to a lot of GitHub stars on the repository and turns out this blew up. HN works in mysterious ways. > 0 acknowledgement from OP I have no idea, that seems like a newly created account to me. if you have any queries or issues/feedback,…

Thank you for responding irshadshalu, I sincerely appreciate you taking the time. I agree that HN works in unpredictable ways. I don't know if you were just more lucky than I was, or if people like your app better because the UI looks better. If that's the case, it's interesting to know. This HN account is new-ish, but the original MusicToy blog post from 2012 is still around [1]. As far as Git goes, I would apprecia…

Why in the world would the author lie to market for you when you weren’t an inspiration?

Re: Music Grid

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Post by kilnr »

williamdclt wrote: post #178

I'm finding an interesting effect: when I'm making my own loop I'm finding the music pretty cool and enjoyable and I can definitely imagine turning it into an actual song. When I listen to the compositions posted here, I'm thinking "this is isn't interesting to hear whatsoever". I'm not sure what's my point (definitely not that I'm doing better, what I composed objectively suck), maybe that composing your own stuff g…

I think at least in my case, that sense of progression is definitely a big reason why my own "compositions" sound pretty good.

This is my crowning achievement: https://music-grid.surge.sh/#2050-8-256-128-2112-32-72-36-20...

Re: Music Grid

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Post by palimpsests »

yesenadam wrote: post #197
palimpsests wrote: post #123

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The notes that this app is playing, from lowest to highest, are: B3 C#4 F#4 G#4 C#5 D#5 E5 G#6 B6 C#7 F#8 G#8 These notes are all diatonic, e.g. from the same key (unlike all the keys on a piano). That key is C# relative minor (or E major). In modal language, this is the C# Aeolian (or, when played from E to E, Ionian mode): C# D# E F# G# A B C# If you play notes restricted to a single key, it will come out sounding…

> this is the C# Aeolian Or it could equally well be G# A# B C# D# E F# G# (I hear it much more like that too.)

Sure... it could be that mode (Phrygian, or the mode starting on the 3rd degree of the major scale).

The tonal center we'll hear using this specific collection of notes, whether it be G#, C#, E (or any other note from this key), all depends on the sequence you enter. Rhythmic variation would also support this but this app does not have that option.

Here's one with a tonal center of C#: https://music-grid.surge.sh/#1152-2112-1040-2212-1088-1320-1...

And with G#: https://music-grid.surge.sh/#260-272-528-256-160-288-512-108...

Re: Music Grid

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Post by __max__ »

kortilla wrote: post #221
__max__ wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for responding irshadshalu, I sincerely appreciate you taking the time. I agree that HN works in unpredictable ways. I don't know if you were just more lucky than I was, or if people like your app better because the UI looks better. If that's the case, it's interesting to know. This HN account is new-ish, but the original MusicToy blog post from 2012 is still around [1]. As far as Git goes, I would apprecia…

Why in the world would the author lie to market for you when you weren’t an inspiration?

I think it's very likely that he has seen one of the multiple music apps I've put out over the years and has actually taken inspiration from it. Either way, it's not required, but considerate to acknowledge your predecessors. Particularly given that the concept is pretty much exactly the same.

Re: Music Grid

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Post by irshadshalu »

__max__ wrote: post #226
kortilla wrote: post #221

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why in the world would the author lie to market for you when you weren’t an inspiration?

I think it's very likely that he has seen one of the multiple music apps I've put out over the years and has actually taken inspiration from it. Either way, it's not required, but considerate to acknowledge your predecessors. Particularly given that the concept is pretty much exactly the same.

I was not aware of any of the music apps you made and came to know about MusicToy first time from this thread (oh and it's great btw, I played around with it a bit)

and my inspiration, as I stated earlier was from a stress-reliver app in play store which I have given credits in the first paragraph of README.

Re: Music Grid

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Post by dang »

hoorayimhelping wrote: post #198
gfxgirl wrote: post #109

I'm not trying to be cynical but what is special about this verses that 1000s of similar sites that came before? Here's one of google's https://www.google.com/logos/2017/fischinger/fischinger17.ht... Here's Ableton's https://learningmusic.ableton.com/ Is there something special about this one?

> I'm not trying to be cynical Welp, you failed spectacularly at that. You came off like a bitter, cynical asshole who's mad that someone made something. > Is there something special about this one? Yeah, someone had the inspiration to make something and they did it. That's pretty fucking special. "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena... who comes short again and again, because there is no effor…

Oof, please don't do this. I appreciate you standing up for the OP, and of course the shallow-dismissal aspect of internet comments is a big problem, big enough that the site guidelines ask people not to do it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. But they also ask you to "Be kind", plus this:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

The best way to respond to a comment like that isn't to do to Monty Python fish slap but rather to include and expand (I almost want to say 'embrace and extend') - rodw shows how it's done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23517644

Re: Music Grid

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Post by rkagerer »

Well, this didn't work work quite as well as I'd hoped:

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