[HN Gopher] Tek - A music making program for 24-bit Unicode term...
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Tek - A music making program for 24-bit Unicode terminals
Author : smartmic
Score : 163 points
Date : 2025-05-15 19:56 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (codeberg.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (codeberg.org)
| montag wrote:
| Really awesome UI. Is there a quick YouTube demo?
| neilv wrote:
| In case anyone else wondered, it doesn't seem to involve Tek
| (Tektronix) terminal graphics. Maybe the name was an homage?
| Sharlin wrote:
| Oh no, you're supposed to have the channels on the x-axis and
| time on the y-axis ;) _mutters about good old days_
| MarcelOlsz wrote:
| I love the top down tracker UI. For some more you can look at
| Aphex Twin using PlayerPRO [0] and Hitori Tori using Renoise [1]
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| [0] https://vimeo.com/223378825
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| [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnJY5u6cC7A
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| Both are mindblowing.
| genewitch wrote:
| I bought playerpro and we used it for a while, been a long time
| since I thought of it. I just checked my old Mac CD case and
| it's not in there, oh well. We also switched to reason around
| version 3-5.
| MarcelOlsz wrote:
| If you ever do find that disc I'd love to buy it from you
| lol.
| genewitch wrote:
| at the very least, you've made up my mind that i need to
| photograph every 4 disc page in all of my cases, and label
| the cases. Right now it's like "MissingHandleCase" and
| "RightLockBrokenCase" and "LocksIntactWithStrapCase" and
| "LargestUnderBedCase"!
|
| I do have discs from that era, as i have 680x0 Mac Performa
| OS discs - the ones that are silver and black with pixel /
| icon art of the mac smiley face on them. When i still had
| an actual SATA optical drive on a machine i was
| contemplating indexing all of my optical media. I started
| with some software on windows and it wasn't very good, i
| looked around for other options and came up with nothing.
| So i rely on my (admittedly non-perfect) memory of what i
| had on disc, up to ~30 years ago.
|
| I may as well admit: I tried to "patent" an optical media
| "case" that mechanically held the middle of the disc, like
| a laptop cdrom spindle does, but with a button to release
| them so you didn't need to "bend" the disc to remove it. I
| had cad drawings and everything. But the vaultz cases are
| "good enough" for my usage - where i rarely, if ever,
| remove discs from their sleeves. As long as the cases
| aren't jostled regularly, and never left open and exposed
| to dust, and kept in a controlled environment (not too hot,
| not too cold, not too wet, not too dry), i don't forsee any
| issues from the _storage_ of the discs. Whether or not the
| foil layer or glue or any of that holds up - well, my
| optical disc case design was actually gasket sealed, and
| had something like a Schraeder valve to pump air out, or
| nitrogen in; this probably would have made the foil and
| glue last longer.
|
| I had completely forgotten i had invented that until i
| started commenting on the longevity of my optical media.
| Sorry. Amateur archivist, here. Nice to meet you.
| duskwuff wrote:
| It's open-source now, but never made the transition to 64-bit
| APIs.
|
| https://sourceforge.net/projects/playerpro/
| montag wrote:
| nit: Renoise; good stuff, thanks for sharing.
| alisonatwork wrote:
| This program doesn't look top down to me, it seems like the
| main sequencing interface is piano roll, although the sample
| editing looks tracker-inspired. It'll be interesting to see
| what people do with it. Maybe fans of piano roll will find a
| lightweight way to get their ideas down that feels simpler than
| a full Ableton setup?
|
| For me I still find piano roll awkward to read. I can't
| visualize what the music is going to sound like the way I can
| with a tracker pattern. Perhaps it's because my eyes need to
| scan left and right and up and down too much to see what each
| note is? Let's not even get into the problem of having effects
| configured on a totally different screen. When I transitioned
| from tracker to hardware and later to Ableton I felt like I
| wasn't really writing music any more, I was just rearranging
| sounds till they eventually turned into music. It made for
| perhaps more surprising and interesting results, but I never
| really got back the feeling of control and finesse that I had
| with trackers.
| tzmlab wrote:
| There's demo video at
| https://v.basspistol.org/w/eUCnnNJugRZ5haqyuYQ2CK
| yahoozoo wrote:
| Are there any DAWs that support VIM keybinds?
| alisonatwork wrote:
| I remember seeing one a while ago, and a quick websearch leads
| me to this Reaper plugin: https://github.com/gwatcha/reaper-
| keys
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| I think I wouldn't hate a modal tracker nowadays. In the old
| days when everyone had gigantic keyboards it didn't seem so bad
| to depend on numpad and F keys and so on, but nowadays it might
| be cleaner to be more vim-like.
| RIMR wrote:
| For the non-arch users, the build script has a typo:
|
| Don't use bin/, use build/
| woolion wrote:
| The AUR package is also broken, it doesn't fetch the submodule
| before trying to build.
|
| It would be better to just suggest using the static build, as
| it works OotB.
| chaosprint wrote:
| Neat! For those who prefer a more direct, terminal-based approach
| to making music with code, check out also Glicol-CLI:
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| https://github.com/glicol/glicol-cli
| stuaxo wrote:
| This title makes me desire a hardware 24 bit unicode terminal.
| cocodill wrote:
| the binary is kind of broken, output is quite cryptic:
|
| Error: ClientError(ClientStatus(FAILURE | SERVER_FAILED))
| __m wrote:
| Was hoping to see a tracker, I think that would be a better fit
| for the terminal
| wormius wrote:
| It's interesting a lot of us saw this and thought "Tracker" and
| I googled to see if there was a TUI tracker, and on simple
| search I don't see one. It seems like that's an interesting
| idea waiting to be made...
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