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Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5

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Re: Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5

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Post by binarysolo »

Well done! Polished and nice product.

Though as a musician who reads off of sheet music -- is there a way to un-Guitar-Hero-ify the scrolling tabs thing? Maybe my video card is too slow or something, but following the notes is really tiring on my eyes, in addition to dealing with low refresh rate of the visuals.

Edit: d'oh, just noticed the settings to page instead. Would be nice to have more measures before it pages though (again, stone age sheet reader here -- as a musician I probably cache 1-4 measures ahead of what I need to play, when sight reading).

Edit 2: Aha, found the features once I logged in; spoke too soon. :) I think if you make the benefits of creating an account and signing in apparent you'd get even better signup... I guess I'm just missing things all over the place but it definitely would have gotten me to sign up sooner when I realized I could unlock more features.

Re: Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5

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Post by adrianh »

binarysolo wrote: post #2

Well done! Polished and nice product. Though as a musician who reads off of sheet music -- is there a way to un-Guitar-Hero-ify the scrolling tabs thing? Maybe my video card is too slow or something, but following the notes is really tiring on my eyes, in addition to dealing with low refresh rate of the visuals. Edit: d'oh, just noticed the settings to page instead. Would be nice to have more measures before it pages…

Thanks! Glad you found the scroll type preferences. For more, check out the tutorial (annotated on Soundslice, naturally): http://www.soundslice.com/yt/8zgsQ9qgA7s/

(Edit) You might also try zooming out a wee bit so that the notes don't go by as quickly. That's helped me a lot as I've used it.

Re: Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5

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Post by adrianh »

ryanlbrown wrote: post #4

This is great. I would suggest one thing: try to make the scroll speed independent of screen size. I can't read the notes with a fully maximized window. Edit: found the zoom, but still, I shouldn't have to.

Thanks for the feedback! Yes, coming up with the optimal initial zoom level is a tricky compromise. Still need to tweak it.

Re: Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5

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Post by adrianh »

mnicole wrote: post #7

This is so awesome, great job you two! Any plans for a keyboard version in the future or will this always strictly be guitar tabs?

Thanks! I definitely plan to add sheet music as a track type. It's significantly more complicated than tabs, so it didn't make it for launch -- but I'd love to serve all my musician brothers instead of just guitarists. :-)

Re: Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5

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Post by sharkweek »

This is beautifully designed, huge improvement to the current tabs market available for guitarists. Congrats on a great product!

edit: I am curious about one thing -- how do you plan on handling copyright down the road?

2nd edit: Feature request, if you hover over chords, it'd be cool if it showed the finger placement

Re: Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5

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Post by binarysolo »

adrianh wrote: post #5
binarysolo wrote: post #2

Well done! Polished and nice product. Though as a musician who reads off of sheet music -- is there a way to un-Guitar-Hero-ify the scrolling tabs thing? Maybe my video card is too slow or something, but following the notes is really tiring on my eyes, in addition to dealing with low refresh rate of the visuals. Edit: d'oh, just noticed the settings to page instead. Would be nice to have more measures before it pages…

Thanks! Glad you found the scroll type preferences. For more, check out the tutorial (annotated on Soundslice, naturally): http://www.soundslice.com/yt/8zgsQ9qgA7s/ (Edit) You might also try zooming out a wee bit so that the notes don't go by as quickly. That's helped me a lot as I've used it.

Aha! There they are -- fantastic! :)
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