<story><title>Show HN: Typebeat: Keyboard-controlled music sequencer, sampler, and synth</title><url>https://github.com/kofigumbs/typebeat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hkgumbs</author><text>Hi HN! I’ve been working on Typebeat for a year and a half, and I decided yesterday to make the code public. There’s also a website where you can download the macOS build and try an online demo:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;typebeat.kofi.sexy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;typebeat.kofi.sexy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The project was initially conceived as “vim for music”. All of Typebeat is controlled by the 30 main character keys on the computer keyboard. The result is a workflow that’s a little tricky to learn but fast to use once mastered. (So I suppose I nailed the vim experience in that regard.) If you’d like to see how I use it at top speed, you can check out this 2-minute jam I made recently:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=RT0qUB4gbas&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=RT0qUB4gbas&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Typebeat: Keyboard-controlled music sequencer, sampler, and synth</title><url>https://github.com/kofigumbs/typebeat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tiborsaas</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a long time bedroom producer and I find this tool an interesting concept, but I couldn&amp;#x27;t get through the initial step to create  a 4&amp;#x2F;4 kick loop. There&amp;#x27;s too much internal state going on with no indicators about what&amp;#x27;s active or what mode I&amp;#x27;m in that it feels more like a memory game than a fun music toy. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s not a coincidence I&amp;#x27;m not a vim&amp;#x2F;emacs fan? :D&lt;p&gt;What I&amp;#x27;d add is a few tutorial videos to explain the basic concepts from scratch.</text></comment>