Weird, I have messages from days ago just coming through now. Anyway, On 01/16/2014 03:23 AM, Vesa wrote: >> What I am trying to say is that we can do somethign similar where we >> can allow people to compose music and make changes to a track on the >> mobile device and it will appear in lmms. [...] > Hmm. What's the use case for this? Is it like, you have an unfinished > track home, then you get a great idea when you're doing groceries, and > have to quickly tap it down with your tablet? I can see how that could > be useful, but also very marginal. What other use cases are there?
I carried a Nintendo DS in my jacket pocket for about 3 years to use NitroTracker. I can't count the number of times I pulled into a parking lot to get a melody down before I forgot it. Today I have MilkyTracker installed on my phone to jot musical ideas down. Both of them have the same problems as any other tracker (you're entering hex note values instead of using a piano roll, you're stuck with whatever samples you have on hand, etc.) and MilkyTracker's Android port is.... well, pretty lame. It's like someone shoehorned a DOS program onto my 5" touchscreen. I haven't actually been able to use it to jot down any compositions, whereas with NitroTracker, as limited as the DS was, I did. But it wouldn't be tough to code an Android app with a piano roll and a few basic tone generators that outputs LMMS project files, maybe with a "share" button so you could email them to yourself at home. I probably would have done it myself by now if I had any free and uninterrupted coding time whatsoever, but the laptop I had to buy in a hurry in the fall when mine died is so awful (don't buy a Lenovo IdeaPad S405, ever... actually, I guess Lenovo is good to stay away from in general nowadays) that whatever free time I do have is spent trying to work around its many issues. Maybe our brains work differently, but I can't imagine being able to retain a composition that occurs to me on the way to work, through all the distractions and interruptions at work, till I get back to my laptop 10 or so hours later. Before my DS I had a handheld tape recorder that I sang melodies into, and I've even used my phone's voice recorder to do the same because Android's composition tools are so primitive as of yet. Having a tool to not only let me get melodies and chord progressions down but do a bit of basic arrangement as well would be very, very handy. Hmmm, actually, my phone is powerful enough to emulate a DS... Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list LMMS-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
