Re:Sonant: A tool for creating generative music based on ran...
by anonytrary on Saturday January 18, 2020 @11:29PM
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What a cool idea! Minor suggestion -- start/stop feature is pretty buggy. Pressing stop seems to do nothing, pressing start seems to start a new instance, but not stop the old instance, causing both instances to play on top of each other.
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Re:Sonant: A tool for creating generative music based on ran...
by kgolid on Sunday January 19, 2020 @03:24AM
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Thank you! You are absolutely right; the start/stop is not working perfectly at the moment. ‘Stop’ ends the music after it finishes the progression, ‘start’ immediately starts a new progression without waiting for the old to actually stop. Guess it’s worth to point out that this in no way is considered a finished product :)
Re:Sonant: A tool for creating generative music based on ran...
by zeta0134 on Sunday January 19, 2020 @01:55AM
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Stop appears to cause the old instance to play through to the end, but not start a new instance right away. So it works, but it's really delayed; I think most users would expect an instant mute from a button labeled "Stop." Perhaps a relabel would set better expectations.
Re:Sonant: A tool for creating generative music based on ran...
by anonytrary on Sunday January 19, 2020 @02:07AM
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Interesting, I didn't test it that far. My pathetically low tolerance as a user kicked in beforehand. If it behaves more like "queue next", then that's what it should be named. Although, a queue next function without the concept of a playlist makes little sense compared to a stop/start.