Re: [LMMS-devel] Vesa and others

[Jonathan A. <eag...@gm...>]

@Toby can you set up on the main lmms repo an android branch please.


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Tobiasz Karoń <un...@gm...> wrote:

> Sounds neat. I'd say: go for it!
> On 28 Jan 2014 13:20, "Jonathan Aquilina" <eag...@gm...> 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 <un...@gm...> 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 <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
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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