Thank you so much for this incredible app! I love it so far! are there any plans to extend the length of the track? I'm trying to transcribe Space Lion from Cowboy Bebop and ran out of room, haha!
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Thanks for the nice words!
What song length do you think would be appropriate? My main goal here is to capture the charm of physical music boxes in this style and I feel like the current lenghts (between 20–120 notes) is a fairly good sweet spot. (In the initial release it was fixed to 48 which was arguably a bit too limited I think.) This already involves significant “cheating” for the rendering of the turning cylinder as there couldn’t be enough physical space for all these notes.
The interface, samples, and crank I think already give you the quaint vibe. You could have infinitely long pieces of music and it'd still feel just as nice. Heck, I'd even like to explore something generative like a couple of randomized arps that just made endless tinkling runs.
We'll certainly need more capacity if we're going to transcribe a few Wintergatan songs in here!