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Re: Music Grid

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Post by __max__ »

reitzensteinm wrote: post #215
__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…

But parent hasn't acknowledged that you were an inspiration. I find this insistence quite rude. Especially when it's taking well trodden ground in desktop software and putting it on the web.

Well trodden ground? Except there wasn't desktop software that could do this beforehand.

If you can't see the innovation, let me spell it out for you in very few words: the software has an intuitive-enough UI that you need no prior knowledge of the program to use it, and you can share musical ideas in one or two clicks. Please tell us exactly which desktop program allowed you to do this, as easily, pre-2012? Yes, this is novel, since it enables something that wasn't possible before.

Re: Music Grid

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Post by rkagerer »

rkagerer wrote: post #231
exabrial wrote: post #90

Request: Super Mario theme

Here We Go! https://music-grid.surge.sh/#0-2048-0-144-1072-0-40-530-0-26...

Earlier attempt before I just kept the most recognizable bits and tweaked them by hand... https://tinyurl.com/mariogrid

Once your ears have cringed enough, go here and click Preview/Import then the Play button: https://tinyurl.com/mariobetter

Re: Music Grid

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Post by reitzensteinm »

__max__ wrote: post #232
reitzensteinm wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But parent hasn't acknowledged that you were an inspiration. I find this insistence quite rude. Especially when it's taking well trodden ground in desktop software and putting it on the web.

Well trodden ground? Except there wasn't desktop software that could do this beforehand. If you can't see the innovation, let me spell it out for you in very few words: the software has an intuitive-enough UI that you need no prior knowledge of the program to use it, and you can share musical ideas in one or two clicks. Please tell us exactly which desktop program allowed you to do this, as easily, pre-2012? Yes, thi…

This kind of simple edit and share songs definitely existed, e.g. Otomata. So you combined Otomata and Tone Matrix? Cool, I guess, but the ingredients were right there for any number of people to do the same thing independently.

Trying to claim your place as the trunk of the tree that any tool that looks like this branches out of is not reflective of reality and pure hubris.

Also I'd appreciate it if you added a link on Music Toy for both of these apps which clearly gave you inspiration.

Re: Music Grid

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Post by yesenadam »

palimpsests wrote: post #225
yesenadam wrote: post #197

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> 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/#11…

My point was merely that the statement "In modal language, this is the C# Aeolian" is not correct. (source: am a jazz musician)

It's unclear to me from your comment whether you realize that.

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