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by gabergg 6y ago
Hi HN! I'm Gabe, the creator of Songcraft. I shared early versions of Songcraft on HN, and I'm so grateful to the community for the feedback. I've incorporated a ton of these ideas and others. Songcraft is now fully collabora
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Show HN: Write Songs and Tabs Collaboratively Online(songcraft.io)
5 points by gabergg 6y ago|1 comments
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by gabergg 7y ago
I run an online collaborative songwriting platform ( https://songcraft.io ). With the quarantine, I'm going to be pushing to launch a matchmaking system for songwriters looking for collaborators. I've already heard from
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by gabergg 7y ago
This is really great! For your progressions section, are all of the progressions added manually? It would be cool to have a way to generate or manipulate them more flexibly. I'm the founder of Songcraft ( https://songcraft.io
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by gabergg 7y ago
Hi HN! I'm Gabe, the creator of Songcraft. I shared early versions of Songcraft on HN, and I'm so grateful to the community for the incredible feedback. I've incorporated a ton of those ideas, and I recently did a major rewri
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Show HN: I built an online songwriting tool with real-time collaboration(songcraft.io)
5 points by gabergg 7y ago|2 comments
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by gabergg 8y ago
I've really enjoyed working with Tone.js! Many of Songcraft's ( https://songcraft.io ) audio features are powered by Tone.js. It's been a great way to manage loops, samples, etc. It makes it quite easy to do things
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by gabergg 8y ago
That's really interesting. When I was exploring implementing standard notation, I also came across ABC notation. If/when I take on standard notation, I think ABC notation would be very reasonable to implement for import/expor
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by gabergg 8y ago
Thank you so much. That's the balance I'm aiming for, but there's still room to improve!
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by gabergg 8y ago
Exactly my thoughts! I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad direction to go, I just want to make sure I do it the right way.
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by gabergg 8y ago
Hahah I was wondering if anyone would enjoy the reference. Thanks for checking it out =}
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by gabergg 8y ago
I’m really excited to look into some of the publishing and community-based features that might be possible. I’m not sure I would want to tackle tab hosting on the scale that UG does, but it’s definitely not out of the question. Thanks for t
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by gabergg 8y ago
Thanks very much! I’d always love to hear any feedback after you get a chance to check it out!
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by gabergg 8y ago
Entire song playback isn't live yet, but it's coming very soon! There have been a ton of requests today, so I'll be prioritizing it.
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by gabergg 8y ago
This is very helpful feedback, thank you. In a couple places, I mention that the $4.95/mo rate (Launch discount) is for the first 3 months of your subscription before it changes to $8.95/mo. I need to make this more prominent, and
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by gabergg 8y ago
You can add any chord you want! Just click anywhere on a chord line and enter the chord you like (or click on an existing chord and type to change it). You will also get recommended chords for that location in your song as part of the autoc
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by gabergg 8y ago
I wanted to launch with a simple pricing model, but I'm working on developing a longer term (annual/lifetime) plan to sit alongside the monthly one. I think that's an important point. A user could also disable their subscript
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by gabergg 8y ago
The progressions from the generator are based on manipulations of common patterns in scale degrees. The chord recommendations in the editor are predicted from a recurrent neural network. There are lot of improvements that I'm excited t
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by gabergg 8y ago
I actually might do that. It's been the top feature request of the day. I'll look into it this week and see if I can ship something useful to tide us all over until I can improve it.
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by gabergg 8y ago
That’s a great question. I held off on tackling standard notation because there are some existing solutions out there for composing standard notation. I decided to focus first on what seemed like an unmet need in the space. That being said,
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by gabergg 8y ago
I love hearing how everyone addresses this problem in their own way. I hope you enjoy Songcraft, and would love any feedback you have!
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by gabergg 8y ago
MIDI support is on the roadmap! Export and import should both be feasible, as is live MIDI input. Thanks so much for giving Songcraft a shot.
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by gabergg 8y ago
That's a super interesting process! I haven't heard of using spreadsheets to track this kind of thing. It sounds like you're sort of building a spreadsheet-based lead sheet. Thanks for checking out Songcraft. Let me know if t
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by gabergg 8y ago
This is an incredibly important feature to me. It's coming, but I want to be sure to get it right. It will also enable some other really useful features like entire song play-through. Thanks for the feedback!
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by gabergg 8y ago
This would be really interesting to explore. You can already export a pure-text version of your song (under Share), but it would be amazing to have a more reliable document that included things like metadata as well. Thanks for the thought!
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by gabergg 8y ago
I think there are a lot of benefits to a web app here including: - Cross-platform support - Collaboration and sharing, especially with unregistered users - Speed to get off the ground as a new user - Automatic updates for fixes +
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by gabergg 8y ago
Yikes! Hopefully the site will hold up to HN traffic. Was this on the landing page? If you let me know where you saw the error, I can take a look. Thanks!
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by gabergg 8y ago
Entire song playback isn't live yet, but it's coming! It's a really important feature to me, and I want to get it right. I could enable it in a very simple form, but I think it will be much more useful if I can ship it with p
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by gabergg 8y ago
Thanks for the kind words! That's a great point about the demo. I'm hoping to put up a more polished demo in the near future (with the help of more a talented video editor than I), and I'll definitely include the audio.
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by gabergg 8y ago
I would love for Songcraft to fit into that space to take those ideas to fruition. I've been there with the pile of riffs and parts - I feel your pain! Thanks for checking it out!

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