Frauber84

Show HN: MidiStickers – learn music theory visually

Posted by Frauber84 on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:56AM
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Hello HN,I am music theory teacher who loves building my own tools. My latest project is MidiStickers, a desktop software for teaching and learning music using MIDI instruments.The UI concept is "every tool is a floating widget", which came from my frustration with video capture setups during the pandemic. Now I just drag-and-drop and rearrange mid-lesson.The usual flow is: play your instrument...

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Re:Update on MuseScore 3.6 and 4.0 on Saturday November 07, 2020 @05:10PM (#25020056)

Real time notation for small groups, so they can work out exercises (ie, four-part harmony, variations on melodies, harmonization) and also get comments from others. Breaking a large class into small groups is very effective for remote teaching in music theory.

Re:Update on MuseScore 3.6 and 4.0 on Thursday November 05, 2020 @05:55AM (#24997198)

As someone who has been using MuseScore daily for the past decade in my teaching, my deepest respect to the developers and community, you have built a piece of software with real impact that challenges proprietary (and very expensive) alternatives. Kudos to everyone involved in this life-changing project.

Looking ahead, it would be rad if some form of real-time collab could happen with MuseScore, either with the software or MuseScore.com embed.

Re:Witeboard on Sunday October 04, 2020 @12:55PM (#24680452)

Thanks! This seems to be the best solution for my needs.

Re:Witeboard on Sunday October 04, 2020 @08:30AM (#24678503)

I miss uploading images and PDFs that I can "lock" and write on top. Ziteboard does it, but it is expensive and also when someone zooms everyone is zoomed, which kind of sucks. Jamboard is also bad at writing on background images. We do need a good whiteboard app with a simple share indeed for classes.

Re:Ask HN: Minimal-bandwidth conferencing for remote education on poor... on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:36PM (#23860680)

Yes, digital storytelling is what I have been mostly doing, with ffmpeg for extreme compression, coupled with some quizzes and small tasks.

I'm familiar with Slack so I'll check out Zulip, it looks great!

Re:Ask HN: Minimal-bandwidth conferencing for remote education on poor... on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:28PM (#23860592)

Those are all good ideas, I am mostly going the fully offline route, however some teachers lack time (too many classes), experience or equipments to produce good content.

VoIP is new to me, I will look at that. I also found that Microsoft Teams has policy settings to limit bitrates for specific users, so that might be also an option to limit bandwidth for students with data limits (between 3-6Gb/month in basic plans around here).

Ask HN: Minimal-bandwidth conferencing for remote education on poor countries

Posted by Frauber84 on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:14AM
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In Brazil (and probably elsewhere) we are facing serious issues with remote education. Many students rely on 3G/4G connections with data limits and teachers are having a hard time delivering content.For video lessons, I have been using ffmpeg to segment and compress lessons with -stillimage and the lowest bitrates possible to distribute via WhatsApp, as some ISPs don't charge for data on this...

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