[HN Gopher] Signal: Online MIDI Editor
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Signal: Online MIDI Editor
Author : modinfo
Score : 98 points
Date : 2024-10-29 17:46 UTC (4 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| atoav wrote:
| Interesting, but would be better if there was at least a
| screenshot in that Readme.
| jchw wrote:
| There's one here: https://signal.vercel.app/
|
| Maybe it should be added to the readme.
| atoav wrote:
| That would be good I guess, especially since it looks so good
| that there is no need to hide it : )
| mkl wrote:
| The project looks interesting. Screenshots would help, as well as
| a link to the demo at https://signal.vercel.app/edit. The demo
| asked for MIDI permission, but didn't accept input from my MIDI
| keyboard until I realised you have to enable it in settings.
| There's enough lag in the system that most of my notes end up a
| bit delayed, and the snap-to-grid doesn't seem to be working.
|
| Please consider changing the name. A generic common word is hard
| to search for, and there is already well-known software named
| Signal.
| WhereIsTheTruth wrote:
| > Please consider changing the name. A generic common word is
| hard to search for, and there is already well-known software
| named Signal.
|
| People are free to use the name they want, whether it is the
| NSA or an individual, it doesn't matter
| mkl wrote:
| Of course people are free to use any name, no matter how much
| it sabotages their project. That doesn't mean it's sensible.
| Names absolutely matter. At work I use a thing called STACK,
| because it's the best option available to do what we need to
| do, but the name is a real problem as it makes it really hard
| to find anything about it.
| yboris wrote:
| Hence the "please consider" in front ;)
|
| I got lucky with naming my app: "Video Hub App" and despite
| being generic-enough, organically around 50 people find my
| software every day. With a name like "Signal" I suspect
| almost no one will ever find this software unless they
| already knew of its existence and searched specifically with
| "Midi Editor" prepended to "Signal" :/
| latexr wrote:
| People are also free to smash their own hands with a hammer.
| Someone saying to them "please consider not smashing your own
| hand with a hammer because you will be in pain and may lose
| use of it" doesn't stop them from doing so, it _politely and
| helpfully_ gives a suggestion as to why they should think if
| that's what they really want.
| maroonblazer wrote:
| Congrats on the project. I like the layout/design. At first
| glance it looks intuitive and very approachable. Nice work.
|
| I spent much too long looking for a "Record" button. Is the idea
| that you're supposed to 'draw' your ideas? I have a MIDI keyboard
| connected to my MBP, but Signal didn't seem to recognize it.
|
| I'm a hobbyist musician and nearly always sketch out ideas by
| playing them into the DAW. Only after I've roughed out the idea
| do I get surgical with editing tools like those on display here.
| Of course to each his own.
| mkl wrote:
| You have to manually turn on input for your keyboard in the
| settings. Then you get a record button.
| LegitShady wrote:
| at its heart its a piano roll, pretty much all DAWs have them
| somewhere.
| ajdoingnothing wrote:
| Fantastic work!
| block_dagger wrote:
| Cool project! Please add a five minute demo video at the top of
| the Readme. Also I would change the name to something more
| unique. Naming is difficult but important in products and CS.
| zelphirkalt wrote:
| 5 minute video in a readme ... Are you aware of how much data
| will need to load to display that? Maybe a link to such a video
| would be fine. But not 5 minutes embedded into the readme. You
| might get 30s for that as a reasonable video length.
| LegitShady wrote:
| It seems like I have to select the note in the piano roll to
| adjust the velocity, instead of selecting and adjusting in the
| velocity area, which is annoying.
| Pikamander2 wrote:
| Any idea how this compares to the Online Sequencer? I like the
| idea of the Online Sequencer but it feels pretty limited at
| times.
| rriley wrote:
| Love it! This is great way to quickly explore musical ideas
| online. I couldn't find a way to enable looping while playing. Is
| this possible in the current version?
| deadfa11 wrote:
| Ooh very cool! I really like the logo :)
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