Sounds neat. I'd say: go for it!
On 28 Jan 2014 13:20, "Jonathan Aquilina" <eagles051...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would love to work on an android port. the nicest thing about android we
> dont need to have a java based version. currently there is something called
> the NDK which will allow someone to take a native c/c++ app and compile it
> for android.
>
> I would love to spear head this eventually. One step at a time though.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Tobiasz Karoń <unf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
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