Midibin
Creative
music composition tool
SHOW HN2018
48points
13comments
#809of 2,155 in 2018
Top 38%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
2 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Design: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool idea and fun to try
From 2 comments
Super cool! Even though I'm far from musical I instantly got the urge to come up with some tunes :)
vikeri on HNI always have the radio on when I am on my pc... but hey this is so cool ... so cool ... that I had to turn the radio off well done
lorenzosnap on HN
Interesting for learning and algorithmic composition
From 2 comments
I don’t want to minimize any of the work being put into this, which is clearly not a trivial amount, and is actually quite interesting and useful for learning purposes. That…
r-w on HNDavid Cope used lisp for his 'Experiments in Musical Intelligence'. Lisp is very suited to this problem, and it's through his books that I first 'got' lisp (at the time, I was…
math on HN
Objections
Editor auto-linting is frustrating with complex input
From 1 comment
The editor auto-linting my input is incredibly frustrating - try pasting anything of complexity in, for example.
kennywinker on HN
Less useful than visual music notation tools
From 1 comment
I don’t want to minimize any of the work being put into this, which is clearly not a trivial amount, and is actually quite interesting and useful for learning purposes. That…
r-w on HN
Alternatives named
Overtone
From 2 comments
Anyone into both Clojure and music production should look into Overtone: https://github.com/overtone/overtone It's essentially a synthesizer in a REPL + a multitude of other…
boo_boo on HNYou know, Sam Aaron, the guy who made Sonic Pi, actually started out making his music in Clojure before focusing on Sonic Pi. He's behind the pretty awesome Overtone library:…
simongray on HN
Sonic Pi
From 1 comment
It is amazing never thought about how you could translate a music sheet to Lisp but it makes total sense... Also somewhat relevant though not in Lisp for anyone interested in…
giancarlostoro on HN
LilyPond
From 2 comments
Lilypond is best-in-class and is in Scheme; it uses a DSL for friendliness, but it all comes down to Scheme after that.
chrismorgan on HNI don’t want to minimize any of the work being put into this, which is clearly not a trivial amount, and is actually quite interesting and useful for learning purposes. That…
r-w on HN