This program doesn't look top down to me, it seems like the main sequencing interface is piano roll, although the sample editing looks tracker-inspired. It'll be interesting to see what people do with it. Maybe fans of piano roll will find a lightweight way to get their ideas down that feels simpler than a full Ableton setup?
For me I still find piano roll awkward to read. I can't visualize what the music is going to sound like the way I can with a tracker pattern. Perhaps it's because my eyes need to scan left and right and up and down too much to see what each note is? Let's not even get into the problem of having effects configured on a totally different screen. When I transitioned from tracker to hardware and later to Ableton I felt like I wasn't really writing music any more, I was just rearranging sounds till they eventually turned into music. It made for perhaps more surprising and interesting results, but I never really got back the feeling of control and finesse that I had with trackers.
I bought playerpro and we used it for a while, been a long time since I thought of it. I just checked my old Mac CD case and it's not in there, oh well. We also switched to reason around version 3-5.
I think I wouldn't hate a modal tracker nowadays. In the old days when everyone had gigantic keyboards it didn't seem so bad to depend on numpad and F keys and so on, but nowadays it might be cleaner to be more vim-like.
Neat! For those who prefer a more direct, terminal-based approach to making music with code, check out also Glicol-CLI:
https://github.com/glicol/glicol-cli
I love the top down tracker UI. For some more you can look at Aphex Twin using PlayerPRO [0] and Hitori Tori using Renoise [1]
[0] https://vimeo.com/223378825
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnJY5u6cC7A
Both are mindblowing.
This program doesn't look top down to me, it seems like the main sequencing interface is piano roll, although the sample editing looks tracker-inspired. It'll be interesting to see what people do with it. Maybe fans of piano roll will find a lightweight way to get their ideas down that feels simpler than a full Ableton setup?
For me I still find piano roll awkward to read. I can't visualize what the music is going to sound like the way I can with a tracker pattern. Perhaps it's because my eyes need to scan left and right and up and down too much to see what each note is? Let's not even get into the problem of having effects configured on a totally different screen. When I transitioned from tracker to hardware and later to Ableton I felt like I wasn't really writing music any more, I was just rearranging sounds till they eventually turned into music. It made for perhaps more surprising and interesting results, but I never really got back the feeling of control and finesse that I had with trackers.
I bought playerpro and we used it for a while, been a long time since I thought of it. I just checked my old Mac CD case and it's not in there, oh well. We also switched to reason around version 3-5.
It's open-source now, but never made the transition to 64-bit APIs.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/playerpro/
If you ever do find that disc I'd love to buy it from you lol.
nit: Renoise; good stuff, thanks for sharing.
There's demo video at https://v.basspistol.org/w/eUCnnNJugRZ5haqyuYQ2CK
In case anyone else wondered, it doesn't seem to involve Tek (Tektronix) terminal graphics. Maybe the name was an homage?
Really awesome UI. Is there a quick YouTube demo?
Are there any DAWs that support VIM keybinds?
I remember seeing one a while ago, and a quick websearch leads me to this Reaper plugin: https://github.com/gwatcha/reaper-keys
I think I wouldn't hate a modal tracker nowadays. In the old days when everyone had gigantic keyboards it didn't seem so bad to depend on numpad and F keys and so on, but nowadays it might be cleaner to be more vim-like.
Oh no, you're supposed to have the channels on the x-axis and time on the y-axis ;) mutters about good old days
For the non-arch users, the build script has a typo:
Don't use bin/, use build/
The AUR package is also broken, it doesn't fetch the submodule before trying to build.
It would be better to just suggest using the static build, as it works OotB.