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   Live Q&A Session Happening Now (10am PST) – Fiddlewax Pro(plus.google.com)

   1 points by akumpf 12y ago|0 comments
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   by akumpf 12y ago

   I understand the perspective you're taking, but I politely disagree. I think you're missing the bigger point here. Let's say someone is interested in baking a cake. There is a LOT you can learn, spanning general baking techni
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   by akumpf 12y ago

   This is like an alternative form of "Yak Shaving." :) Instead of going super far down a path, following each step along the way, and somehow ending up with a yak in your hands, you're immediately asked to find a yak and you r
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   iOS8 Now Allows 30-second App Videos. Here's What We Made(news.fiddlewax.com)

   1 points by akumpf 12y ago|0 comments
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   by akumpf 12y ago

   And here are direct links to the video/audio for those who don't like reading text :) Overview Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wx1tDcC_zM Sample Audio: https://soundcloud.com/adam-kumpf&#x2
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   Show HN: Fiddlewax Pro – Simple UI for making complex music(fiddlewax.com)

   2 points by akumpf 12y ago|2 comments
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   by akumpf 12y ago

   I haven't created one personally, but if you're in a maker desert (where there isn't great access to spaces/people/tools to build and hack things), consider starting a maker space. I used to live a few blocks away f
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   by akumpf 12y ago

   Seems like an interesting idea, but none of the submissions are populating for me. I'll try back later and hope it's resolved :)
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   Decentralized tweets with 1440 characters in HTML(github.com)

   1 points by akumpf 12y ago|0 comments
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    by akumpf 12y ago

    Thanks. Interesting to see all the variations on Hacker News out there. Definitely a ton of HN mirrors, but agreed that there is potential in seeing an alternative view of what's already been upvoted.
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    by akumpf 12y ago

    Nice! That goes a long way in the right direction. Still lots of big company stories, but interesting to see a different take on the same submissions. Any other easter egg HN views we should know about? :)
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    by akumpf 12y ago

    Looks cool; although it feels a bit gated and sparse on first read. I really like the democratized submission process on hacker news.
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    Ask HN: (meta) How do you find real hacker news?

    27 points by akumpf 12y ago|19 comments
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    Show HN: Blinkot – a decentralized "weB LINK chariOT"(blinkot.com)

    3 points by akumpf 12y ago|0 comments
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    by akumpf 12y ago

    Just curious, is it wrong to ask for a HackerNews upvote at the end of an write-up?
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    Show HN: Find It Fast(news.fiddlewax.com)

    2 points by akumpf 12y ago|1 comments
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    Startup Tips for Increasing Creative Output(news.fiddlewax.com)

    1 points by akumpf 12y ago|0 comments
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    Coffee for Creative Work(news.fiddlewax.com)

    1 points by akumpf 12y ago|0 comments
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    by akumpf 12y ago

    Pricing is a tricky dance with apps. For this one it's "free for the first week" as an experiment to see how things go. So far there's been a lot of great feedback and interest in just a few days (yours included -- thank
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    Show HN: Music for Squirrels – new iOS app(news.fiddlewax.com)

    35 points by akumpf 12y ago|11 comments
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    Show HN: Music for Dinosaurs(fiddlewax.com)

    1 points by akumpf 12y ago|0 comments
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    Show HN: MIDI over WiFi for iphone/ipad(news.fiddlewax.com)

    1 points by akumpf 13y ago|0 comments
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    by akumpf 13y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. I've seen a handful of comments here about dialing in the sounds. Definitely going to be a big consideration for future versions. I also like the idea of working in strumming. Cheers. :)
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    by akumpf 13y ago

    Nice. Seems like a good way to go for most slide guitar style riffs. The real tradeoff is when you do want to purposely play all of the notes in between (microtonal scales). Of course, the way the UI is built, different sliding styles could
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    by akumpf 13y ago

    Indeed. :) I'd really like it to work on Android myself, but it's a serious wrestling match with low-latency audio apps. The Android devs are working hard to speed things up, so fingers-crossed it'll be just around the corner
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    by akumpf 13y ago

    Awesome! I totally dig it. But yeah, I get your point about the fretless UI. I'm churning a bit on how to keep it analog; maybe giving notes gravity so things stay more in tune, but that would make the sound waver on the longer slides.
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    by akumpf 13y ago

    Arg. I'm sorry to hear that. We wanted to support iOS6, but the updates they made to the audio backend in iOS7 were important as we developed so it's kind of locked in at this point. I'll double-check, just in case...
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    by akumpf 13y ago

    Just to clarify, are you talking about the way the news/blog posts are organized? or the Fiddlewax Blue app itself? As for the news/blog posts, they should reflow to fill your screen. I'll see about giving them a bit more bre
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    by akumpf 13y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. I totally agree on tweaking the sounds more. We decided to go for iOS7 as the base since the audio support runs a bit deeper. Capability-wise, it seemed to make the more sense to start from higher ground where possi
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    by akumpf 13y ago

    Glad to hear it! MIDI is now on the roadmap :)