Introduction, music noob and DAW developer

If you have any specific questions about mastering feel free to reach out. I mastered our releases for a few years and I beta tested Slate Maestro, so I know a few best practices/starting points.

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Kind of you. I would actually prefer that you try mastering in Kiwisonic and tell me what you are missing :slight_smile: It’s probably a lot since I just started with the mastering tools.

The linux build is ready and Ive tried it through WSLg (dont have linux installed currently). Im packaging it now.

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I’d say don’t worry about mastering tools for now. Focus on the UX and the core feature set. I see the potential here, but mastering is an art that I can see should not be the focus of this software. Like, the ideal user is probably not going to be interested in mastering their songs directly in this software, to start.

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I tried it briefly tonight (like 3 minutes). Editing the envelops in the graphic interface was laggy. Also didn’t find a way to select/edit multiple notes at a time. That might not be a priority with the workflow that you are envisioning, but it should be added eventually.

Was impressed that I can install/load and be making music in like 3 mins. Definitely a low entry barrier.

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hmm. I never noticed any lag. Is it on linux or windows? Can you describe what you did?

ctrl+drag to select many notes or CTRL+click on them. There is a ā€œrippleā€ mode (dunno the real name), if you adjust any note the positions of all notes to the right is also adjusted when its on.

hmm. I moved the mouse shortcuts to another file. I’ll add them back. Use wheel hover a note to adjust its velocity.

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found a couple of reasons why envelopes are slow. Building a new version, it should be a lot faster. Will include it in next release that also should fix the bundled kiwisynth loading.

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Well I’m glad you’re not a bot, You’re just insane, so you’ll fit right in :laughing:

The text quoted above reminds me of an engineer friend of mine. The guy is on another level brain-wise. He’s an American, went to live in Europe for research work and stayed there 4 years before coming back to the US. Before that, once at my place, I see him with a crazy book, some obscure treatise on relativity, time/space/quantum stuff that he’s started reading. In French.

I am French myself so I take a peak. I can barely understand what I’m reading (the theory discussed, not the words, obviously). I cannot help but laugh and tell him that people usually start learning French by reading ā€œLe Petit Princeā€ or some other such kid book. And he’s like, ā€œno, no, this is fineā€ :joy:

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haha. yep. That’s twice the challenge. I’m happy with a paper in a language I already understand :slight_smile:

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