ant1
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some feedback:
a more comprehensive help section!

i can't really tell you any more than that, because i have no idea how to use it...

much of my musical inspiration comes from the process itself, and from feedback between the software and my head, happy accidents, etc ~ so much of it is influenced by the software that i feel that using something else to compose with and then transcribing into whatever other software is going to change the way i write music a lot. is this a good thing or a bad thing? who knows. if i was the kind of person who had IDEAS appear in my head, and needed a way to get them down instantly, maybe songstarter would be great for that. i can't really tell.

anyway, i am intrigued by this software and i think i shall repurpose it as something to write songs from start to finish with. "sometimes, you just want to jam". maybe you should be marketing this as a live performance and improvisation / live-composition tool rather than as a song-starter as such. in which case it needs more features. if it is literally just something to get ideas down with, maybe it needs less features.

i'll play around with it a bit more. maybe i'll write an album with it.

thanks for making it. i hope you get more interest

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Hey guys, thanks again for all the feedback. I just wanted to follow up with a few updates.

Since the original beta release (when we had this discussion), I've made the following changes:
- Improved the latency on Windows quite a bit, things should be more responsive. My goal is that you shouldn't have to worry about quantization until you get to the DAW stage. smile
- Added external recording from mics and whatever else you can plug in to your computer. (eg. record your synth or beatbox into your mic)
- Added some way better instruments (two new pianos, plus an electric piano, cello, glockenspiel, generally nice sounding things) smile - http://soundcloud.com/oscillicious/new- … coming-for
- Lots of general polish to the feel of the application - new icon, better handling of projects, etc.
- Better visualization in the loop recorder
- REAPER MIDI export heart
- I'm also toying around with changing some of the graphics up, for better or worse..

Ant1: I agree - the process can have a really big influence on the music you end up making. One of the advantages of SongStarter is that you can iterate pretty quickly on your ideas or use that workflow to try to whittle down a random jam into something that sounds good. No grand ideas necessary. smile You raised a lot of good points though - maybe I'll end up spinning it off into a couple of different apps with much tighter focuses (eg. a live performance looper and a simpler designed-to-be-a-toy app, etc. Definitely good food for thought!)

Anyways, there's a couple of bugfixes to push out early this week and then I expect a final 1.0 release in the next week as well. All of your feedback has given me a lot to chew on and will continue to shape SongStarter and influence where I take things from here. Thanks again for all the comments guys, and happy jamming!