From: Tobiasz K. <un...@gm...> - 2014-01-20 17:35:49
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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 <sou...@ku...> > 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 > LMM...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel > -- Tobiasz *unfa* -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT/MU/P d->-- s+:-(--)> a? C++(+++)>$ ULC+(++)>$ !P? L+++>++++$ E? W++>$ !N-? !o--? K-? !w-- O? !M-- V? PS++ PE++ !Y+ !PGP+? !t(+) 5? !X !R+ tv b+>+++ DI>+ D+ G e h-->- !r y--() ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ |