I guess we'd need a crew of people dedicated to write such an app.
LMMS-mini?
I guess it's not gonna happen very soon, as we have lots of things to do.
This is to be kept in mind, maybe written down as a ticket so it won't
disappear.
2014/1/20 Rob Kudla <sourceforge-raind...@kudla.org>
> 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
>
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