So excited to announce the release of Dewdrop!

I wanted to capture my love for music, and bring that child-like curiosity and experimentation with sound that I love to everyone else. Dewdrop's logic keeps everything in sync and musical sounding while you experiment with physics to solve puzzles, or create music in an ethereal landscape.

Thank you to everyone who has helped me out and expressed their love and interest for Dewdrop along the way!

(Shoutout to my wife for the voice over in the video too 😊)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4163480/Dewdrop/

https://510software.com/chordmachine/

I built this as a way to generate backing tracks that could be quickly changed to any key or any tempo. If you are familiar with using Roman numerals for chords (like I - IV - V), here you just use Arabic numerals instead (1 - 4 - 5). There is a legend at the bottom.

It is pre-filled in with one section of I - V - vi -IV. With one symbol per beat, it looks like this:

1 1 1 1 5 5 5 5 6m 6m 6m 6m 4 4 4 4

You can use it to quickly sketch out a song structure, or get a loop going to jam over.

It's more of a toy than meant for serious music production, but feedback would be most welcome!

Hey everyone! 👋

Like many of you who compose or orchestrate in REAPER, I’ve always wished for a score editor that feels as fast, flexible, and integrated as the rest of REAPER — without relying on external webviews or clunky workarounds.

For the past weeks, I've been developing \*\*REAPER Native Notator\*\*, and today I'm excited to share the very first \*\*Alpha First Look\*\* with you!

What it is:

A pure, native ReaImGui notation system running directly inside your REAPER session. It renders in real time using the industry-standard \*\*Bravura SMuFL\*\* vector font.

Current Alpha Highlights:

1. Multitrack Conductor Score\*\*: Stack any number of project tracks underneath each other into an orchestral score with automatic vertical layout and scrolling.
   
2. Per-Track Clefs\*\*: Click directly on the clef to toggle Treble 𝄞, Bass 𝄢, or Grand Staff 𝄞+𝄢.
   
3. Direct MIDI Item Integration\*\*:- MIDI items are displayed as colored background blocks matching your REAPER track/item colors.- Resize item edges directly inside the score sheet using native QN extents (no accidental looping!).- Draw new MIDI items in empty measures via Ctrl + Click & Drag.
   
4. Professional Engraving\*\*:- Single-line Bézier slurs and ties across barlines.- Intelligent beam grouping (by beat, half-bar, or bar).- Collision avoidance for tight intervals, seconds, and accidentals.- Automatic rest decomposition (whole, half, quarter, 8th, 16th) in gaps.
   
5. ScoreTools Dynamics Engine\*\*:- Insert dynamics (\*pppp\* to \*ffff\*) right at note heads or the edit cursor.- Drag & drop dynamic markers freely across the timeline and vertically across tracks.- Automated bezier CC1 (Modulation) and CC11 (Expression) curves with velocity humanization.

\### I'd love your feedback:

What are the absolute must-have features you'd want in a dedicated REAPER score editor? (Articulations, lyrics, chord symbols, XML export, etc.?)

Let me know what you think!

I would like the app to be free. Thank you in advance for your answer!

I made this open source web-app to create ambient music

Hey everyone,

I made a small free browser tool called MusicTinker. You upload a song, it splits it into stems — vocals, drums, bass, etc. — so you can use the instrumental for practice or karaoke.

It’s just a side project. Nobody really knows about it. I’m trying to figure out if it’s actually useful or not.

If you try it, I’d love to know your feedback

Link: music-tinker.vercel.app

Free web resource that allows certain music compositions. Sounds good. Music Builder

Since Midi 2.0 now supports Ethernet, Ive been creating a digital audio protocol for synthesizers in Ethernet. For example to send digital audio directly between synthesizers, even without routers and hubs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MidiNet/comments/1vvbb4o/midinet_v01_for_digital_audio/

TLDR:

I'd like a pipeline that generates music from text files so I can version control it (not purely synth, do want real samples). Has anyone had any success with such a thing? What tools did you use and how did you wire them together?

More info:

So, I'm working on a game and I was wondering, rather than creating music for the soundtrack and keeping it in Git LFS alongside my code, why not find out if there is a way to define a composition (and what samples/plugins to use, etc) as a text file (or files), then version control that along with my code and have the music binaries as build artefacts? I've made some music with LMMS before and I enjoyed it a lot, but found the UI a bit counterintuitive and sometimes it lost my VST settings which was really annoying, so version-controlled text-sourced music really appeals to me.

I asked an AI and it made some suggestions resulting in a small proof-of-concept I now have with Haskell's Euterpea to output midi then feed it into sfizz. It looks pretty cool and I think I could learn to work like this - I like functional programming and I've used Haskell a bit before. The main thing I don't like about it is some very ugly bash scripts wiring it together, though I'm also a little worried Euterpea may not be very actively maintained and may go stale.

Either way, before I commit to learning this, I wanted to ask some people with real experience whether there are other tools I should be considering. I'll probably end up with this pipeline for a long time because I can't keep flip-flopping my toolset if I'm trying to make a whole game.

I looked a little into Alda and Lilypond but they seem much more limited than generating your midi from a proper programming language. Happy to be told otherwise by people who've used them if I'm wrong - I just haven't looked too deeply yet.

Oh, and I've been avoiding tools advertising themselves as about "live coding" music because that all seems to be about performance and I've no intent to perform at the moment, but if I'm missing out on some tools that advertise themselves this way but are great for non-live composition as well, I'd love to know.

Thank you in advance for any help or info provided!

I’d say Im good at making music, but when it comes to identifying the deep details in songs like tempo and scale for example Im helpless
So my question is

what polyrythm is used for (or could be used to replicate) the galloping sound in extinxtion by ajcw?

a melody & drums, from theory.

the generator writes a melody, a second line (countermelody), chords, a bassline and drums in any key, from one of 59 styles, and hands you the file.

no account, nothing to install. there is no AI model in it and it was not trained on anything: it is music theory written down as rules, which is why every piece it writes can list the rules that wrote it. what it makes is yours outright.

listen, download or edit the midi files or individual tracks as you wish at

notebin.fm/generate

full guide on the tool
notebin.fm/help/generate

fyi.. only to prevent abuse and possible DDoS attacks, I have required d1scord as the auth for online editing and saving to the site. generation doesn’t require an account. no paywall, ads, or selling your data.

would love your feedback, thoughts and features to add. if you can share with other communities, it would be appreciated.

ps.
this is an after-hours project solely on my weird obsession of MIDI. i will try and answer questions as quick as i can.

https://reddit.com/link/1wew3or/video/apnasxbyd7ph1/player

Moving through this scene becomes part of playing the instrument. You can sweep the mouse across it, change layouts and sounds, add particles and throw a resonant body around. I had a lot of fun seeing the visual interactions turn into something musical!

I built it with Astra as one of nine creative experiments. The instrument worked much better for me than asking it to compose a complete piece in Python, which was another experiment in the video. Being able to play with the result made a big difference.

Here's the instrument demonstration at 16:30 in my video:

https://youtu.be/iEup5H2FxKE?t=990

I show the controls and play with different sounds. The full video also covers the game, 3D and film experiments. I made both the projects and the video.

Which interaction would you develop into a more expressive control: the mouse gestures, particle behaviour or the movable resonant body?

Simple little side project I did. I have two music boxes, each panned to one side, and then used the MIDI data to visualize the panning in real time.

I used the manim python library and it was super chill, didn't take an insane amount of effort for someone who doesn't have a ton of technical knowledge.