Soundslice
Learning and science
music education
SHOW HN2012
492points
124comments
#9of 1,677 in 2012
Top 1%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
37 positive, 32 neutral or asking, 19 mixed, 11 critical, out of 99 comments about the project. Thread score +0.29.
Idea: 13 for, 1 againstDesign: 7 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 7 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Polished, beautiful design and useful for practice
From 4 comments
This is beautifully designed, huge improvement to the current tabs market available for guitarists. Congrats on a great product! edit: I am curious about one thing -- how do you…
sharkweek on HNThis is incredible. Really interesting concept, fantastic execution. Great level of polish. You should be incredibly proud of this because it's really well done. I love the…
benihana on HNAdrian: as you are one of the only people on YouTube I've ever subscribed to, I felt the need to say that this is fantastic not only for the features of the software itself, but…
skippyta on HNI don't know anything about guitars or tabs... but as a developer I think this site is beautiful!
jack-r-abbit on HN
Solves a real problem better than printed or spammy tab sites
From 3 comments
This is a solution to a problem I didn't even know I had until I played with it. Well done!
saturdayplace on HNThis is very cool. I usually don't see so much innovation in this market, but this is a very big step forward if compared to the printed tabs spread in my house. Congrats and…
mborromeo on HNAwesome. I am your target. I often troll YouTube for "[song name] + acoustic cover" then find myself navigating the spammy chord/tab sites for the music. Bringing it together is…
jrmattox1 on HN
Objections
Scrolling tab numbers move too fast to read
From 4 comments
Dude this rules awesome job! Only issue for me is that even in 1/2 speed its moving to fast for my eyes to focus on the numbers. So what I need is to have the lines separated…
wavesounds on HNGreat idea but, even on half speed on the Super Mario example, the thing is so jerky that the numbers on the tabs just blend together, I can't read a single one of them. MacBook…
stickdick on HNAwesome product. I tried to play a little, but the things are moving way too fast even on half the speed (on AutoScroll). I suggest that besides tab numbers that are moving fast,…
tadruj on HNThis is great. I would suggest one thing: try to make the scroll speed independent of screen size. I can't read the notes with a fully maximized window. Edit: found the zoom, but…
ryanlbrown on HN
Playback fails with JS errors for some users
From 3 comments
Nothing happens for me (only the youtube video plays). Firefox 16.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.8). JS Error: [08:42:30,567] TypeError: this.yt_player.playVideo is not a function @…
wazoox on HNI press the round play button, and nothing happens. Chrome 23, Win7 here. Here's the JS error: ``` Uncaught TypeError: Object #<V> has no method 'playVideo'…
rorrr on HNHmm, somehow it doesn't work for me. When I hit the Play button, nothing happens. What's up with that? Using Chrome Version 23.0.1271.64 m @ Windows 8 btw.
Avalaxy on HN
Tab numbers overlap when zoomed out
From 1 comment
From one guitarist to another, this is absolutely amazing. It would be great if numbers would scale down when zooming out—otherwise they overlap one another.
hellcow on HN
Requests
Chord track or chord display while playing
From 3 comments
This is awesome. One bit of feedback: It'd be cool to have some fixed area on the screen where you are showing the current chord (in a big font), while the video is playing. In…
ronyeh on HNWow -- amazing! My #1 feature request: annotate chords. I'm looking at Honey Pie, and trying to figure out how to play Eb9 by looking at your fingers. Possible bug report: I…
shawndrost on HNThis is beautifully designed, huge improvement to the current tabs market available for guitarists. Congrats on a great product! edit: I am curious about one thing -- how do you…
sharkweek on HN
Sheet music / standard notation support
From 2 comments
Thanks! I definitely plan to add sheet music as a track type. It's significantly more complicated than tabs, so it didn't make it for launch -- but I'd love to serve all my…
adrianh on HNGreat! The ability to repeat the selected Chords is really nice. I would suggest adding real musical notation in another timeline (to help people that are learning it). BTW, I'm…
jQueryIsAwesome on HN
Support for 4 and 5 string instruments
From 2 comments
This is great. Would love to see tab support for 4 and 5 stringed instruments as well (5 st banjo, tenor banjo, mandolin etc)!
squidsoup on HNAwesome product. I tried to play a little, but the things are moving way too fast even on half the speed (on AutoScroll). I suggest that besides tab numbers that are moving fast,…
tadruj on HN
Slower playback speeds and speed slider
From 2 comments
This is awesome. Any plans to add a speed slider vs 50%/Full? It would be super helpful to slow down to 25% on some songs.
mengine on HNGreat work! Some things I'd like to see: ``` - Ability to loop sections of a song. - An easy way to restart the current song from beginning. - And, because I'm not great...…
gisenberg on HN
Paged scrolling by default and bigger tab numbers
From 2 comments
Wow, that is cool for sure. One comment: set the default scrolling behavior to "paged". I found that real-time movement was too blurry. Otherwise, great job!
mcmire on HNAwesome app. One suggestion: Make the tab numbers WAY bigger. Really hard to read at the default settings. Future feature: Lyrics with chords.
Honzo on HN
Questions
How will copyright be handled?
From 2 comments
This is beautifully designed, huge improvement to the current tabs market available for guitarists. Congrats on a great product! edit: I am curious about one thing -- how do you…
sharkweek on HNThis is really amazing and wonderful. I hope it doesn't come into the cross hairs of sheet music / copyright industry the way most of the tabs and lyrics sites seem to have.
zmmmmm on HN
Can users create tabs by copy and paste or import ASCII tabs?
From 2 comments
Looks great. Definitely needs a copy/paste functionality. I tried to tab "blitzkrieg bop" (for the obvious reasons), and without copy/paste it's not so fun. But great site overall!
peteTorrione on HNAwesome! I coded this exact same concept about 4 years ago (livetabber.com... your name is better). I was really hoping somebody would do it for real. Do you plan on adding…
smattiso on HN
Alternatives named
Capo
From 1 comment
A great piece of software in the same space as SoundSlice is Capo: http://supermegaultragroovy.com/products/Capo/
GuiA on HN
Rocksmith
From 1 comment
It's cool, but it's got some usability issues for "playing along" unless you already know the chords, etc. The 1/2 time was also pretty choppy for me. Rocksmith [1], which can be…
biscarch on HN
UltimateGuitar
From 1 comment
Wow - this is awesome. Well done! Any plans to add lyrics to the annotations? It would be cool to be able to follow other contributors as well because some people are great at…
tchock23 on HN
Guitar Pro
From 1 comment
Awesome! I coded this exact same concept about 4 years ago (livetabber.com... your name is better). I was really hoping somebody would do it for real. Do you plan on adding…
smattiso on HN
VexTab
From 1 comment
This is very cool! Have you seen vextab? http://vexflow.com/vextab/ It's a javascript library for displaying tablature and musical notation. It uses its own text format for…
owyn on HN