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I'm also thrilled to see more songwriting tools on the web! As an active songwriter, the area I need the most assistance with is lyrics. To that point: - It'd

I'm also thrilled to see more songwriting tools on the web! As an active songwriter, the area I need the most assistance with is lyrics. To that point: - It'd be great if the rhymes panel was larger (or resizable). I use RhymersBlock on iOS which has a kinda neat way of color-coding rhymes within your lyric. - Something I desperately need that no app has implemented is a way to build lyric "alternatives" on a phrase by phrase or line by line basis so that I can swap in an alternate lyrical treatment and see it in context. (Revision history would be a related and also probably very cool feature) - I personally don't think I'd have much use for chord progression suggestions, but that's just me. - I can't currently move a chord annotation while that annotation is selected. Have to click off of it to deselect before dragging works again. - For chord annotations, it's often useful to be able to "split" the chord into the chord + bass (or root?) note especially for passing changes. You see this all the time in Beach Boys songs. - Apple's Music Memos app has a bunch of audio analysis capabilities that I realize I use a bunch. They extract chords (which I don't use very often) but more importantly, they auto-detect a BPM from a recording which I use as the starting point when I'm ready to move from demo -> production. I'm really excited about this app. Here's hoping it turns into the "Songwriter's notepad" I've always dreamed of!

gabergg 8y ago
This is really valuable, thanks for the thoughtful feedback! - I'm considering making all panels resizeable, I think it would be really helpful. Also planning to build out the dictionary capabilities more. - A friend of mine suggested the exact same thing re: lyric alternatives. I really like this idea. - Are you on Safari? There's a bug with dragging selected chords on Safari. You also won't be able to play chords live. Chrome and Firefox should be good (I hope!) - Really curious to explore some of the chord manipulation ideas as well as bringing a project from creative phase to production.
- adamesque 8y ago
  I am on Safari, so yeah, maybe that's it. Thanks for the responses!
exabrial 8y ago
I missed Apple's Music Memos announcement, never heard of this and it looks awesome
- adamesque 8y ago
  It has a ton of rough edges (for instance, doesn't use the same media playback APIs as the rest of the system so playback dies if you turn off the screen) (also for instance, it routinely gets "stuck" looping through a tiny tiny maybe 100ms section of a song) but despite those it's become my go-to catalog for recording song sketches. Oh — I also use and rely on the rating and tagging features. I used to use the Soundcloud app for this very early demo songwriting phase but that's not really what Soundcloud is about anymore.

gabergg 8y ago

This is really valuable, thanks for the thoughtful feedback! - I'm considering making all panels resizeable, I think it would be really helpful. Also planning to build out the dictionary capabilities more. - A friend of mine suggested the exact same thing re: lyric alternatives. I really like this idea. - Are you on Safari? There's a bug with dragging selected chords on Safari. You also won't be able to play chords live. Chrome and Firefox should be good (I hope!) - Really curious to explore some of the chord manipulation ideas as well as bringing a project from creative phase to production.

adamesque 8y ago
I am on Safari, so yeah, maybe that's it. Thanks for the responses!

exabrial 8y ago

I missed Apple's Music Memos announcement, never heard of this and it looks awesome

adamesque 8y ago
It has a ton of rough edges (for instance, doesn't use the same media playback APIs as the rest of the system so playback dies if you turn off the screen) (also for instance, it routinely gets "stuck" looping through a tiny tiny maybe 100ms section of a song) but despite those it's become my go-to catalog for recording song sketches. Oh — I also use and rely on the rating and tagging features. I used to use the Soundcloud app for this very early demo songwriting phase but that's not really what Soundcloud is about anymore.