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babydots
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Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?
I write Android apps for my baby-now-toddler.
At a few months old I created BabyDots [0] as she loved this YouTube video of dancing dots [1] which really settled her when she was upset as a young baby.
At over a year old I added BabyPhone [2] to let her talk to family and have them “talk back” to her even when they were not available. I missed the timing on this and she didn’t enjoy it at all until literally this week when she started talking back to the little baby on the other end of the phone.
At 18 months old I made a book-building app [3] that takes titles of pages on Simple English Wikipedia, and creates pages for a book that can then be exported as a PDF and printed (or viewed on the phone). It also has a website [4] on a free heroku dyno which definitely won’t take much traffic. This was because when she gets interested in, e.g. planets, I don’t want to have to order a book on planets, I want to print one out 5 minutes later to keep her interested.
One of my proudest moments was at my new job where a team member said during our first standup “I have your baby dots app installed and although we don’t do screen time, the music really sooths our kid during nap time!”.
[0] - https://github.com/babydots/babydots
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⟳ 5 apps added, 44 updated at f-droid.org
Baby Dots v. 1.5.1: Soothe and calm young babies
helio-sequencer
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Helio: Libre Music Composition Software
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 available under its more esoteric name, the “ionian” scale, and then there are five different versions of locrian to choose from, not counting the ones outside 12-EDO.
https://github.com/helio-fm/helio-sequencer/blob/develop/Res...
Even with all these esoteric features, there is no such thing as, say, Eb. There is only D#. As programmers, we really want to normalize all our data so that it’s represented in exactly one way, but as a musician I like having both sharps and flats around. They’re convenient and make the music easier to read.
This is a neat tool for playing around with scales and tunings, but it seems like absolute hell to try and write music this way.
- Helio FM – libre music composition software
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MIDI editor for Linux?
Not really a DAW (more towards a sequencer), and haven't used this software for a year+ to comment on its current state but we have Helio Workstation.
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Seriously, don’t underestimate GarageBand
Helio is another cross-platform option, more streamlined and even more powerful.
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What’s the best open source electronic music production software?
Helio
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What's a good midi music creator I could use?
Well if you don't want a daw you could try https://helio.fm/
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⟳ 1 apps added, 22 updated at f-droid.org
Helio (version 3.8): Music sequencer, designed to be used on all major platforms
- is there any FOSS app for audio editing?
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how do you notate music pieces
I love MuseScore and want a decent notation editor for my tablet, but pickings are slim, unfortunately. Most of the editors I find have abhorrent interfaces. I'd even be fine with a LilyPond frontend or something, rather than what I do now (Helio is truly wonderful and ticks my boxes, but can't produce notation).
- Helio Project: libre music composition software
What are some alternatives?
Feeder
seq66 - Seq66: Seq24-based live MIDI looper/editor. v. 0.99.12 2024-01-13. NSM support; Linux/Windows/FreeBSD; PDF user manual. Help access to tutorial and PDF. Beta code in portfix branch.
tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
snapdrop-android - Android client for local file sharing via https://snapdrop.net/ and https://pairdrop.net
AccA - Acc app allows to edit acc config file and add a tile to start and stop acc deamon
fdroidclient
blokada - The official repo for Blokada apps.
toc2 - Metronome app
Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System
jellyfin-android - Android Client for Jellyfin
tasks - Bringing Astrid Tasks back from the dead