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by rodw 7y ago
Thank you. I appreciate that you took the time to post that.
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by rodw 7y ago
Thanks for that. Just in case you missed this point, you can already import Guitar Pro files.
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by rodw 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback. That sounds like a bug. If you see the two quotes and didn't see the tabs you definitely weren't playing anything. Specifically it sounds like we failed to load the song data, so you don't really see
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by rodw 7y ago
You're not wrong, but to be honest, no, not very much. It might make an appreciable difference in "conversions" (to using the app) for the Hacker News crowd, but I'm not sure if it's justified in the general case, f
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by rodw 7y ago
That's fair. Full disclosure: right now FATpick will import gp3, gp4 and gp5 files. The "import song" button both enforces and mentions this, as does the user manual IIRC, but it's not something that's called out in
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by rodw 7y ago
Actually that probably deserves a less flippant answer, so let me offer one. To be honest the most interesting differentiators are not really visible in this MVP release, but there are some, even now. At a practical level: * FATpick lets yo
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by rodw 7y ago
Mostly the opportunity cost relative to other things to spend time on. But you're right. It should just work on Linux too. There may be some platform-specific quirks to work out, but you are not the first person to ask for this. If y
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by rodw 7y ago
That's great feedback, thanks. To clarify: it is totally free to download and use right now and will continue to be for at least several months. Eventually payment will be required, probably in the form of a subscription plan.
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by rodw 7y ago
Moxie.
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by rodw 7y ago
It is signed with a valid developer ID associated with the same LLC mentioned on the site (and that owns the domain), so you can be reasonably certain that the app you are running is the one that we (I) created. It is not yet notarized, but
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by rodw 7y ago
Actually, as you probably already know, there's a third notation that is commonly used for chords, like these things - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chord+box&iax=images&ia=images That's also on the roadmap. R
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by rodw 7y ago
Thanks. I don't always reference "Guitar Pro" by name. Do you think that specific phrase would catch your eye or be more significant for you? I.e. is "import Guitar Pro tabs" substantially more meaningful to you tha
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by rodw 7y ago
It can absolutely do near-real-time pitch detection of singing or humming or even better whistling. We may want to tweak the parameters a little bit for that specific domain but it probably does reasonably well right now. If you want you ca
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by rodw 7y ago
The graphics are directly rendered on an HTML Canvas. It took a little bit of optimization (and a performance-conscious design to begin with) to get there but it seems to consistently get 60 FPS even with all of the graphics, audio streamin
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by rodw 7y ago
I'm repeating myself but just to put this near the root of this thread: You should be able to right-click on the application icon and choose "open" from the context menu that pops up to make this problem go away. (Assuming yo
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by rodw 7y ago
Lol, I've never even seen at VexFlow before, or if I have I've forgotten about it. But from a quick scan I think FATpick's tablature view is a little different what VexFlow does. FATpick's view is like a "piano-roll
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by rodw 7y ago
The app is code-signed with a valid Apple developer ID, but you may be seeing problems because it is not directly distributed through the app store. Per Google apparently a lot of apps have run into this problem: it seems that post-Catalina
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by rodw 7y ago
Well, technically I do mention it on both the landing page and the download page (and usually where-ever the functionality is described), but I guess the lesson here is that it needs to be called out more aggressively. I appreciate the feed
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by rodw 7y ago
Essentially yes, and thank you. Being able to leverage WebAudio was a major factor in the decision to use Electron. To be honest at first I was thinking of Electron/WebAudio as a prototyping tool that I would only use for a proof-of-co
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by rodw 7y ago
Thanks. I'm familiar with CustomsForge, and there are a lot of interesting things about it. But you don't need anything nearly as complicated as Rocksmith files or CustomsForge to import songs into FATpick. FATpick already accepts
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by rodw 7y ago
Thanks. I just double checked on High Sierra and I'm not seeing the problem but I don't have a Mojave install in front of me right now so I can't troubleshoot it immediately. Are you seeing that problem when opening the DMG o
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by rodw 7y ago
Right now for pitch-detection purposes I'm not differentiating between them. If you produce a sound of the right pitch and octave that's considered a "hit" regardless of which fret or string you used to create it. Person
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by rodw 7y ago
Can you share details of what you're seeing? If you want to send it to me directly you can email me as rod at fatpick.
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by rodw 7y ago
Hi everyone. I'd like to introduce you to a side project I've been working on for a little while now. FATpick ( https://www.fatpick.com/ ) is a practice tool for guitar (and bass) that helps you learn to play new so
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Show HN: A guitar tab viewer that listens(fatpick.com)
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by rodw 7y ago
I have, and I agree - as a user AMP sites seem to be faster, at least the ones that I've noticed are AMP. But I've also implemented AMP pages and as a developer they are a PITA. And as discussed in the OP and related they are defi
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by rodw 7y ago
Oh, yeah. I am well aware of that and that interpretation did not enter my mind at all (being entirely surrounded by graphics and not in a conventional terminal-style font may be part of the reason why). I still think it's a little con
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by rodw 7y ago
For what it is worth, if you mean the `>` symbol in the banner graphic to be interpreted as an arrow not "greater than" if I were you I'd give the arrow some kind of tail (`->` not just `>`). My first interpretation
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by rodw 7y ago
It's tough to work-around the unilateral-disarmament problem here: if supporting AMP gives you a boost in Google SERPs it's difficult to boycott AMP if your competitors don't. This is what is so insidious about what Google is
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by rodw 7y ago
I think I'm probably more pro-revolution that most, but c'mon, really? You really think that basic rules of human courtesy are the boot on the neck of humanity? We're talking about something much more fundamental than social

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