[HN Gopher] Show HN: Composing Studio - An online, collaborative...
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       Show HN: Composing Studio - An online, collaborative editor for
       music notation
        
       Author : ekzhang
       Score  : 78 points
       Date   : 2021-09-22 12:09 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | tombert wrote:
       | Neat! I know virtually nothing about music, and I've never really
       | been able to get the fingerings right on a piano, but I've always
       | wanted to learn some music theory.
       | 
       | It might be fun to learn how to use something like this to start
       | learning this stuff.
        
       | erikschoster wrote:
       | This looks really great, I'm looking forward to trying it out
       | with my bandmates! (Who live in another state.)
        
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       | rrherr wrote:
       | Awesome! I have an old project that generates ABC music notation.
       | I made a context-free grammar to transform plain melodies into
       | bluegrass banjo style. The output can be played & edited in
       | Composing Studio: https://rrherr.github.io/banjo-grammar/
       | 
       | For example:                   T:Happy Birthday, bluegrass banjo
       | style         %%MIDI program 105         K: G         L: 1/16
       | Q: 140         D2 D2 E4 D4 G4 F8 D2 D2 E4 D4 A4 G8 D2 D2 d4 B4 G4
       | F4 E4 c2 c2 B4 G4 A4 G8         Dd Dd Edgd Ddgd Gdgd FdgFdgFd Dd
       | Dd Edgd Ddgd Adgd GdgGdgGd          Dd Dd ddgd Bdgd Gdgd Fdgd
       | Edgd cd cd Bdgd Gdgd Adgd GdgGdgGd
        
       | zorba20002 wrote:
       | Good job! and thanks for sharing. As a software developer I
       | really like the textual music notation as I can version control
       | them (Yes, musicXML exists but that is overcomplicated for me
       | most of the time). But as a composer I can never work with these
       | online textual editors. Mostly because my hands are accustomed to
       | shortcuts that the big music editors offer (Sibelius and Finale
       | for example). The thing is what these online music editors offer
       | are really close to what composers like me want, but not there
       | yet. I mean just adding shortcuts and translating them to ABC
       | will turn this to a completely useful software for me as I really
       | don't need other options of those software. Just as an example:
       | 1.numbers change note length 2.abcdefg change notes 3.left right
       | cursor to move like normal 4.up down cursor change note ... there
       | are not a lot of them but having them makes the difference for
       | me.
       | http://www.sibelius.com/helpcenter/hintsandtips/G7Hints&Tips...
        
       | adrianh wrote:
       | Kudos from a fellow developer who has also built a web-based
       | music notation editor (https://www.soundslice.com/notation-
       | editor/).
        
       | rtsil wrote:
       | This is great! As someone learning jazz, this type of
       | collaborative tool can serve for sharing transcriptions with a
       | remote teacher, and maybe even for teaching harmonic analysis
       | (I'm not familiar with ABC notation, but I see it allows
       | comments).
        
       | gavinray wrote:
       | This is really neat and impressive! Can't believe there are only
       | six votes and no comments.
       | 
       | Recently I was taking weekend music theory and composition
       | lessons from a Masters student in a foreign country I met on
       | Discord.
       | 
       | I will share this with him, I think he will appreciate it =)
        
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