Show HN: Turtle.audio – a music sequencer inspired by turtle graphics • Hacker News Board

Damn, this is really similar to an idea that I filed away and have wanted to build for a long time. But I think it's even better than what I was imagining. Nice work! I'm going to spend some time playing around with it.

I think this has a ton of potential and could be used for serious music production. MIDI export would be awesome. Or even a VST plugin that emits MIDI into a DAW. It would be great to use something like this inside REAPER [1].

[1] https://www.reaper.fm

Re: Show HN: Turtle.audio – a music sequencer inspired by turtle graphics

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Post by puranjay » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 5:30 AM UTC

I love this tool but as an amateur musician, I have to wonder: who is your target audience? Anyone remotely serious about making music won't use it. I'll play around with it but if I want to make a track, I'll just head over to Ableton.

There is value in making music easier, but you're only good enough for a little while before people move on to more professional tools

Re: Show HN: Turtle.audio – a music sequencer inspired by turtle graphics

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Post by martinlofgren » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 5:58 AM UTC

This is absolutely beautiful! My wish for a tool like this is to not have it in a web environment, but as a Jack-pluggable standalone program. Then it could be used for real music composition.

But anyway, this is a really nice little app!

Re: Show HN: Turtle.audio – a music sequencer inspired by turtle graphics

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Post by kjeetgill » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 6:01 AM UTC

puranjay wrote: post #8

I love this tool but as an amateur musician, I have to wonder: who is your target audience? Anyone remotely serious about making music won't use it. I'll play around with it but if I want to make a track, I'll just head over to Ableton. There is value in making music easier, but you're only good enough for a little while before people move on to more professional tools

If you're familiar with turtle graphics it fills the same niche. It's not for any use but a simple introduction and exploratory tool for novices. It gets you 0-30 as fast as possible, and let's you start playing.