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

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

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For that much functionality 98kb is hardly bloated at all by modern standards, impressively slight in fact, it could probably cope with some more. Unless part of your fun is keeping it so very trim, of course!

Yes, it's part of the fun. Original version was 65kb (with just the single editor mode and all the filters, mp3/wav export etc). But then having to add flac codec, tempo estimators and finally the multitrack mode, made it closer to 100. When I started developing I was a little frustrated with how bloated the web felt back then so I took that direction, it's much better today though and it's no longer an issue, but I…

I appreciate the attention to efficiency and avoiding bloat. As a frequent audacity user I'm thinking I might end up using this for a lot of simpler tasks.

That said the web offers such great techniques to maintain this. Passive loading of plugins for example could keep things snappy and light and load things when you need them.

If you want the perspective of a prospective long term user: I'd be very comfortable using your app even at tens of megabytes. You could probably keep your initial load pretty light but pull in larger modules as needed. There are certain effects and audio layering I often use in Audacity that would keep me there, but your modern interface and browser access are huge selling points. If your vision includes moving to a bigger editor I guarantee you you'll find a huge base who wouldn't even notice megabytes of code.

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

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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?

Bandlab Studio, maybe? Never used it, but might be what you're looking for. There's a web version and a mobile app.

https://www.bandlab.com/creation-features

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

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This is great. I need to do audio work this coming week and was dreading Audacity.

Try Ocenaudio - I’ve used pretty much every audio editor free and paid for and this is my go to for a free editor. I also cannot understand why anyone would recommend Audacity.

Ocenaudio is closed source, that may be one of the reasons someone might recommend Audacity over it.

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

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This is great. I need to do audio work this coming week and was dreading Audacity.

Try Ocenaudio - I’ve used pretty much every audio editor free and paid for and this is my go to for a free editor. I also cannot understand why anyone would recommend Audacity.

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. :)

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

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looks at code, sees safety closures, function assignments, sequential var declaration

Ahh I see you are one of the old ways, of the lost knowledge :)

I am very nostalgic for this style of development, even though I do not miss it in a team setting at all!

Super cool app you’ve made!

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

#38

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?

Could be pretty easy to do with atproto accounts. Users could save/share their music as a tangled.sh repo and other people could contribute or fork as they please. A nice UI could hide all of that and make it fun to collaborate on music.

Too bad I'm lazy. RiffHub looks neat.

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