Warp

Creative

midi sequencer

SHOW HN2020

98points
35comments
#661of 3,028 in 2020
Top 22%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

3 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.13.

Idea: 3 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Interesting project and useful for generative composition

    From 2 comments
    • Hello there. This looks interesting, but I think that from a promotional standpoint, your website needs screenshots or a video of the user interface for your program. It's cool…
      tachyonbeam on HN
    • Yep, that's true. For now there isn't a user interface and doing some youtubes about the API is definitely planned. the API will remain around forever though, and is useful for…
      mpdehaan2 on HN

Objections

  • No user interface or screenshots yet

    From 1 comment
    • Hello there. This looks interesting, but I think that from a promotional standpoint, your website needs screenshots or a video of the user interface for your program. It's cool…
      tachyonbeam on HN
  • Install problems and needs a MIDI device to produce sound

    From 1 comment
    • I tried to use this, but the PYTHONPATH weirdness was a minor impediment, I tried to actually install it but setup.py is missing a quote, installing it doesn't actually install…
      StavrosK on HN
  • Scale-degree mapping is not new; many sequencers snap to scales

    From 2 comments
    • "music theory aware"? Like...it snaps sequences to scales like every other decent sequencer? I can't actually tell why this is useful from the front page description.
      TaupeRanger on HN
    • What you've just described after "Nope!" is exactly what I mentioned in my post, which is now downvoted I guess. Many many sequencers let you ask for "4 5 6" and adjust for any…
      TaupeRanger on HN

Requests

  • Add a user interface and video demos

    From 2 comments
    • Hello there. This looks interesting, but I think that from a promotional standpoint, your website needs screenshots or a video of the user interface for your program. It's cool…
      tachyonbeam on HN
    • Are there previews or short videos with this?
      main_gi on HN
  • Output sound directly to computer speakers

    From 1 comment
    • I tried to use this, but the PYTHONPATH weirdness was a minor impediment, I tried to actually install it but setup.py is missing a quote, installing it doesn't actually install…
      StavrosK on HN

Questions

  • How does scale-degree mapping handle moving between scale types

    From 2 comments
    • What happens to "6 7 8" in a mapping from (e.g.) a straight minor to a pentatonic scale?
      TheOtherHobbes on HN
    • Not if you're moving from one kind of scale to another, as you've said you can. 6 7 8 are functionally different to 1 2 etc in an eight-step key. In fact they're different across…
      TheOtherHobbes on HN

Alternatives named

  • TheoryBoard

    From 1 comment
    • Neat project! You might find TheoryBoard interesting[1]. It's a midi controller that tries to embed knowledge of scales. [1]:…
      dangoor on HN
  • Ableton Push

    From 1 comment
    • They actually have some cool features to allow multiple scales and scale changes, so intentional accidentals are promoted. This looks a lot like the Ableton Push controllers…
      xzel on HN
  • NDLR by Conductive Labs

    From 1 comment
    • This looks a little like the NDLR from Conductive Labs. The NDLR is a hardware box. While you can enter chord progressions into it, it's intended for live performance where you…
      kbob on HN
  • chords2midi

    From 1 comment
    • This is cool! I've build a much cruder version that I use for generating chord sequences to bring into DAWS: https://github.com/Miserlou/chords2midi It even has voice leading,…
      Mizza on HN

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