fdroidclient VS helio-sequencer

This is the discussion on implementing a popcon-style feature in F-Droid if you want to read through where the project got to: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/396

Meanwhile, the Latest tab "highlights good descriptions" (meaning in other words that it "hides" apps not meeting certain metadata criteria, even if they're completely free - as in speech and in beer - apps), which was not free of some irony, and was discussed at length with apparent consensus to change it but then every time it was back to square one. Because "Latest" apparently doesn't mean "Latest" and people don't get the nuances of English. Not kidding. Read the issue.

Basically, not at present, I think. It's happened for some time, and for a longer time in the past, it's been discussed multiple times, but I don't think right now there's any effort in this direction.

F-Droid (version 1.16.3): The app store that respects freedom and privacy

Play Store → Aurora Store, Fdroid, Neo Store

Yep, that is the hard part: - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/1440 - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/2037 - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/2145

With the speed they're pursuing targetSDK updates? https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/1440

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.

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.

Helio is another cross-platform option, more streamlined and even more powerful.

Helio

Well if you don't want a daw you could try https://helio.fm/

Helio (version 3.8): Music sequencer, designed to be used on all major platforms

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).