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I recently got myself a Novation Launchpad because I was tired of only ever using MIDI keyboards to make music and wanted to mix things up.

Then I discovered that it has MIDI in...

Needless to say, I haven't made any music with it yet, but I did make a program that makes the lights blink real nice. Even ended up creating a little pseudo scripting language to sequence the effects.

It's browser based and you can play around with it without any hardware. (not intended for mobile use) https://gridlitx.onrender.com/

Continuing to chisel away at my browser-based tracker/DAW https://psikat.com/

Thank you so much for this thorough analysis. Really appreciate it. I'm pretty convinced now that my experiment just proved my theory that I could somehow improve on the language - wrong.

Mostly, like I said in other comments, losing all of the grammar encoded in words is just not worth it just to make it somewhat easier to read (to someone who doesn't already know Greek).

I guess I had to see it for myself to understand it, so I feel like it was still a worthwhile little experiment.

I quickly realized that this was the greatest downside of the simplification. And actually kills one of the things I actually really like about the Greek language.

This would make Greek more like English for example where you need more context surrounding words to understand their meaning.

Sorry about that! Added a disclaimer

Hmm yeah, didn't consider that!

Yeah this is where I kind of reached the conclusion that the amount of grammar encoded in a single word is something I actually really like with Greek and that my simplification was too naive.

The point was that I just wanted to see what some ideas I had would look and feel like.

I'm developing a tracker-like sequencer/DAW for the browser: https://psikat.com/

I'm a musician first and worked as a music producer for several years. After shifting into programming and becoming comfortable with a keyboard, using a typical clip-based DAW started to feel clunky and uncomfortable. I began gravitating toward trackers, but most feel too far away from what I'm used to, or have way more features than I need. So, I started building something in between for myself.

Now it's consuming all of my free-time and I'm starting to understand Why You Shouldn't Write A DAW (David Rowland), but I'm having the time of my life!

Because I'm using the latin v for the αυ, ευ = aV / aF. So I felt like keeping the greek ν alongside the "new" v would make them hard to distinguish.

But you're right, this adds confusion. Especially for a native Greek speaker, and I'm not very satisfied with this solution.

Any suggestions?

PS. Updated site with some more info about the conversions.

Really solid laptop stand!

Awesome and nicely executed idea and huge thanks for putting my game Pigeonholed on there!

I made this portfolio page when I was pursuing front-end development as a career. Ended up going a completely different direction but wanted to share it here in case someone might get some use out of it.