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Impressive hack — kudos from a fellow sheet music software developer! I've spent more than 10 years now building Soundslice, which does web-based sheet music r

Impressive hack — kudos from a fellow sheet music software developer! I've spent more than 10 years now building Soundslice, which does web-based sheet music rendering. I believe we were the first to do "responsive" web notation (that part of the site launched in 2014). Here's a tech talk I gave with a lot of details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH5EtQge_Bg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH5EtQge_Bg Here's an example of responsive Soundslice notation: https://www.soundslice.com/slices/zzNlc/ https://www.soundslice.com/slices/zzNlc/ (in the settings, set the stave width to maximum to get "Fit to screen" for the true responsive effect) We've got a whole suite of tools built around this, including an excellent web-based editor, rich practice functionality and a relatively new scanning feature (extracting the musical data from a photo or PDF). I agree with other commenters here that this CSS Grid approach could be handy for lightweight projects but it likely isn't up to snuff for the incredibly subtle and complex world of full scores. With that said, I just want to stress again that this is super cool and I'm glad it exists!

RobKohr 2y ago
Thanks for promoting your software here. This is one of the reasons I come to hacker news comments - finding great projects related to the thing you were just looking at. I am currently learning some music on the violin, and this looks like something that will help me out.
heroprotagonist 2y ago
Could you perhaps elaborate about what makes it 'not up to snuff', given how much you used it as a chance to promote your own stuff?
- asddubs 2y ago
  Maybe the segment on engraving of Tantacruls Musescore 4 video is a good explanation of some of the things involved: https://youtu.be/Qct6LKbneKQ?t=2005 https://youtu.be/Qct6LKbneKQ?t=2005 the whole video is worth watching as well (and there are several videos on the channel focusing on the UI of notation apps, worth watching for anyone who does UI but isn't interested in music production as well)
- 2024throwaway 2y ago
  Such unnecessary aggression towards someone who built something cool and useful.
  - sojournerc 2y ago
    It was constructive criticism from someone with expertise
    - 2024throwaway 2y ago
      It was neither.
      - sojournerc 2y ago
        They said they've spent 10 years developing scoring software... Wtf
        2024throwaway 2y ago
        Those are two separate usernames. I was defending the person who has worked on it for 10 years.
- FelipeCortez 2y ago
  Take a look at the visual tests for VexFlow to get an idea of the complexity music engraving can have: https://www.vexflow.com/tests/ https://www.vexflow.com/tests/
- colonwqbang 2y ago
  Perhaps you noticed that the beams aren't really attached to the notes they are supposed to be beaming together. OP doesn't show any multi-stave (i.e. "full score") example at all -- if the system could do that, it would likely have been part of the demo. This is extremely cool technology, but it's clear that more polish would be needed before it's ready for general use.
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navbaker 2y ago
Oh wow, small world! I use soundslice nearly everyday as an end user of a few music education sites!!!
gentlereturn 2y ago
sound slice is super cool!

RobKohr 2y ago

Thanks for promoting your software here. This is one of the reasons I come to hacker news comments - finding great projects related to the thing you were just looking at. I am currently learning some music on the violin, and this looks like something that will help me out.

heroprotagonist 2y ago

Could you perhaps elaborate about what makes it 'not up to snuff', given how much you used it as a chance to promote your own stuff?

asddubs 2y ago
Maybe the segment on engraving of Tantacruls Musescore 4 video is a good explanation of some of the things involved: https://youtu.be/Qct6LKbneKQ?t=2005 https://youtu.be/Qct6LKbneKQ?t=2005 the whole video is worth watching as well (and there are several videos on the channel focusing on the UI of notation apps, worth watching for anyone who does UI but isn't interested in music production as well)
2024throwaway 2y ago
Such unnecessary aggression towards someone who built something cool and useful.
- sojournerc 2y ago
  It was constructive criticism from someone with expertise
  - 2024throwaway 2y ago
    It was neither.
    - sojournerc 2y ago
      They said they've spent 10 years developing scoring software... Wtf
      - 2024throwaway 2y ago
        Those are two separate usernames. I was defending the person who has worked on it for 10 years.
FelipeCortez 2y ago
Take a look at the visual tests for VexFlow to get an idea of the complexity music engraving can have: https://www.vexflow.com/tests/ https://www.vexflow.com/tests/
colonwqbang 2y ago
Perhaps you noticed that the beams aren't really attached to the notes they are supposed to be beaming together. OP doesn't show any multi-stave (i.e. "full score") example at all -- if the system could do that, it would likely have been part of the demo. This is extremely cool technology, but it's clear that more polish would be needed before it's ready for general use.
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navbaker 2y ago

Oh wow, small world! I use soundslice nearly everyday as an end user of a few music education sites!!!

gentlereturn 2y ago

sound slice is super cool!