This program doesn't look top down to me, it seems like the main sequencing interface is piano roll, although the sample editing looks tracker-inspired. It'll be interesting to see what people do with it. Maybe fans of piano roll will find a lightweight way to get their ideas down that feels simpler than a full Ableton setup?
For me I still find piano roll awkward to read. I can't visualize what the music is going to sound like the way I can with a tracker pattern. Perhaps it's because my eyes need to scan left and right and up and down too much to see what each note is? Let's not even get into the problem of having effects configured on a totally different screen. When I transitioned from tracker to hardware and later to Ableton I felt like I wasn't really writing music any more, I was just rearranging sounds till they eventually turned into music. It made for perhaps more surprising and interesting results, but I never really got back the feeling of control and finesse that I had with trackers.
genewitch · 5h ago
I bought playerpro and we used it for a while, been a long time since I thought of it. I just checked my old Mac CD case and it's not in there, oh well. We also switched to reason around version 3-5.
duskwuff · 3h ago
It's open-source now, but never made the transition to 64-bit APIs.
I think I wouldn't hate a modal tracker nowadays. In the old days when everyone had gigantic keyboards it didn't seem so bad to depend on numpad and F keys and so on, but nowadays it might be cleaner to be more vim-like.
RIMR · 52m ago
For the non-arch users, the build script has a typo:
Don't use bin/, use build/
Sharlin · 6h ago
Oh no, you're supposed to have the channels on the x-axis and time on the y-axis ;) mutters about good old days
[0] https://vimeo.com/223378825
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnJY5u6cC7A
Both are mindblowing.
For me I still find piano roll awkward to read. I can't visualize what the music is going to sound like the way I can with a tracker pattern. Perhaps it's because my eyes need to scan left and right and up and down too much to see what each note is? Let's not even get into the problem of having effects configured on a totally different screen. When I transitioned from tracker to hardware and later to Ableton I felt like I wasn't really writing music any more, I was just rearranging sounds till they eventually turned into music. It made for perhaps more surprising and interesting results, but I never really got back the feeling of control and finesse that I had with trackers.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/playerpro/
I think I wouldn't hate a modal tracker nowadays. In the old days when everyone had gigantic keyboards it didn't seem so bad to depend on numpad and F keys and so on, but nowadays it might be cleaner to be more vim-like.
Don't use bin/, use build/