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Re: Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats

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Post by corndoge »

zrgiu_ wrote: post #4
fsqcds wrote: post #2

Android please!

Android only recently released APIs for sound that are accurate enough for these kinds of applications. As the % of devices running Android 5.0 starts increasing, we'll see sound mixing (and similar) apps there too.

While Android's sound APIs before Lollipop did have a very high latency, you could hack around it by doing your audio processing in native code and feeding the APIs PCM. It just sucked.

That said, definitely excited for the new sound APIs. It's been far too long.

Re: Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats

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Post by ANH »

Nice. I'm going to put this in front of our resident toddler tonight.

Bit of feedback:

* I would have been willing to put down a couple of bucks up front just to try it out, even without the extras available in-app.

* How about "toddler resistant" mode that disables the sharing, feedback, social buttons? Kids tend to touch and drag all over the place, often seemingly at random. The less they end up in a strange place and are able to figure out the core interface, the better.

Re: Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats

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Post by DanBC »

baldfat wrote: post #17

I run a Technology lab for close to 300 3-5 year olds for Head Start. I also am the consultant on app purchases for our whole agency of over 1000 students in over 50 classrooms. I think you may have made the app I have been searching for. Pre-school students needs apps that let them create and not just "glorified work sheets" or some story told to them. I will let you know in the next few weeks how it works in my cla…

An evidence based blog of useful or not so useful apps would be very interesting to me.

Re: Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats

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Post by dagvonkr »

ANH wrote: post #22

Nice. I'm going to put this in front of our resident toddler tonight. Bit of feedback: * I would have been willing to put down a couple of bucks up front just to try it out, even without the extras available in-app. * How about "toddler resistant" mode that disables the sharing, feedback, social buttons? Kids tend to touch and drag all over the place, often seemingly at random. The less they end up in a strange place…

Thanks for the feedback! The monetization is hard to solve. Only thing you can do in the end is to try it out. Thanks for the tip regarding the "toddler resistant" mode ! We'll consider that for a update.

Re: Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats

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Post by _almosnow »

dagvonkr wrote: post #24
ANH wrote: post #22

Nice. I'm going to put this in front of our resident toddler tonight. Bit of feedback: * I would have been willing to put down a couple of bucks up front just to try it out, even without the extras available in-app. * How about "toddler resistant" mode that disables the sharing, feedback, social buttons? Kids tend to touch and drag all over the place, often seemingly at random. The less they end up in a strange place…

Thanks for the feedback! The monetization is hard to solve. Only thing you can do in the end is to try it out. Thanks for the tip regarding the "toddler resistant" mode ! We'll consider that for a update.

Hope you solve it, beautiful app, you guys deserve to get money out of it.

Re: Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats

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Post by kremlin »

just paid for full features; i've always loved stuff like this. There's a web app I always liked that was just a grid with one instrument only, just a reverby mallet-sounding instrument (looks like they added drums now) http://tonematrix.audiotool.com/

When you're restricted to just a scale rather than all 12 notes in the full octave available to you, it's just so surprisingly easy to come up with little riffs that sound good.

Re: Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats

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Post by kremlin »

dagvonkr wrote: post #24
ANH wrote: post #22

Nice. I'm going to put this in front of our resident toddler tonight. Bit of feedback: * I would have been willing to put down a couple of bucks up front just to try it out, even without the extras available in-app. * How about "toddler resistant" mode that disables the sharing, feedback, social buttons? Kids tend to touch and drag all over the place, often seemingly at random. The less they end up in a strange place…

Thanks for the feedback! The monetization is hard to solve. Only thing you can do in the end is to try it out. Thanks for the tip regarding the "toddler resistant" mode ! We'll consider that for a update.

1up that 'toddler resistant' mode; just got this for my girl's ipad, going to have lots of fun with it and it will be more fun if the music doesn't stop every five seconds because she hit the one button she wasn't supposed to hit again.

Re: Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats

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Post by kremlin »

kremlin wrote: post #27

just paid for full features; i've always loved stuff like this. There's a web app I always liked that was just a grid with one instrument only, just a reverby mallet-sounding instrument (looks like they added drums now) http://tonematrix.audiotool.com/ When you're restricted to just a scale rather than all 12 notes in the full octave available to you, it's just so surprisingly easy to come up with little riffs that s…

feature request (hopefully this doesn't sound crazily absurd - also hopefully doesn't come across as rude) -- the ability to string saved tracks together. Run TrackA 4 times, TrackB 2, TrackC 1, TrackD 1, TrackA 4 again, etc. And even perhaps the ability to loop over and reuse arrangements of multiple tracks.

Re: Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats

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Post by fedoreo »

Redditor here. I bought the full version and will gladly share the experience with my fellow intellectuals on reddit.

Bit of feedback: * try not to use too many fonts on the landing page * try to capture audience by utilizing Shneiderman's "Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design"

tips fedora

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