luigi_123

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by luigi_123 5mo ago
Yes, having to deal with MuseScore was one of the reasons I started to work on this. I'm glad you picked up on it. I definitely want to release it as an open source project, but there's still quite a bit of stuff left to do befo
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by luigi_123 5mo ago
I definitely came across LilyPond when researching what to use in the backend for my language :) > Maybe a spectrogram would be more helpful than a simple waveform display. Thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely look into it.
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by luigi_123 5mo ago
Your TOML-based syntax is really interesting. > "drums: (bd ~ sd ~) 32", > "drums: ((hh@0.5) 8) 32", > "drums: (cr@1 ~@15) 8" I definitely considered stuff like that but in the end decided to have ever
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by luigi_123 5mo ago
> Would be nice to have something somewhere in between the over-simplified ABC and overly verbose MusicXML. Hard agree. Early on I actually tried to write my drum charts directly in ABC Notation but it wasn’t a great fit. Then I made a s
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by luigi_123 5mo ago
Forget the DSL part for a second and what this can do is: it can render sheet music, play the corresponding sound and display the same music as a rhythm game. People writing sheet music with pencil on paper don't need any of that so I&
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by luigi_123 5mo ago
It's intended for drummers, but I wouldn't rule out anybody. It can generate sound, and I'm even using some nicer sounding samples I found on the internet, so using it for composition is realistic. But the main use case I&#
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by luigi_123 5mo ago
* This is my first time actually posting anything on HN. I've been making a DSL for writing sheet music specifically for drums as raw text, inspired by ABC Notation (but of course just for drums). Now writing this I noticed that it&#x2