helio-sequencer

I downloaded this and played around with it a little. I’m a little skeptical of something that ditches traditional music notation for piano roll, doesn’t offer any ways to reorganize sections of your song, and then gives you a bunch of tools for key signatures, modes, polymeter, and microtonal music. I’m trying to think of a programming analogy—it’s like checking out a new programming language that has dependent types, higher-kinded types and monads, and a borrow checker, but no strings or integers. It’s really easy for those of us with analytical, mathematical minds to go diving into the more esoteric parts of music theory. Set theory, microtonality and alternative tuning systems, esoteric scales and cataloging all these different scales—but then you fuck up the basics or miss them completely. I noticed that the “major” scale is only ava

Really cool project! I really liked the UI of this app. It feels very smooth and looks amazing. Also, I went to poke around the source code: https://github.com/helio-fm/helio-workstation It looks to be a really well written and maintained C++ project. It's built on top of the JUCE framework [0]. Builds super easy on Linux with minimal dependencies. The coding style is C#-like - very easy to read. I can't say anything about the main functionality though, as I have zero understanding about music composition. [0] https://github.com/juce-framework/JUCE

> Any good alternatives to Qt, Gtk, Electron? wxWidgets? For audio-related software (such as Helio Workstation[0]) there is JUCE.[1] [0] https://github.com/helio-fm/helio-workstation [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUCE

There's also a new project called Helio Workstation https://github.com/peterrudenko/helio-workstation it doesn't have much built-in instruments so you need plugins for everything, but the UI looks awesome

It's gonna be clean and fast, no clutter. Recently there was this on HN https://github.com/peterrudenko/helio-workstation which kind of scared me cause my UI is somewhat similar (but after thinking about it more, I actually find mine a lot better). Also note that the UI is only like 20% of the whole thing, the thing that I'm really trying to improve is the workflows. I will make Hypersphere the fastest DAW in the world when it comes to expressing your ideas When I'm in the zone, I don't care about check boxes. I have some new user interface paradigms that I haven't seen done before (I can imagine they have been tried before tho) that should make writing music super painless and should let you express yourself.