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You should not keep the document name visible when using the NEW toolbar button to clear the grid and erase a song.

Leaving the name populated means next song you save will by default overwrite an existing song, NOT GOOD.

Protect users from losing their work by making CLEAR-DOCUMENT/NEW work like it works in every other program.

That's a great idea.   

I would like to see a MONO pencil mode, like it is suggested here, but also would like to see an eraser tool.

Clicking TWO times to remove one dot is annoying. Clicking FORTY TIMES to remove 20 dots is horrible.

Here's a screenshot showing a nearly unreadable (13" macbook) display with this app.

Most unreadable is what looks like a little X/Y pad which seems to be a primitive mixer. That's also where I think you need to add the volume + and volume - buttons.   Instead of an X/Y pad or a volume button you could use a four band graphic EQ as a bar and another slider beside it for volume.   

Remember that even if the above looks fine on your screen some machines have higher Density screens and the above mac display is not very large, and so having tiny light gray text like the word "Low-pass" is unreadable not only for most modern laptop screens but also for people who have less than 20:20 vision. Please consider increasing the contrast here (bright white larger NON ITALIC  TEXT on black background), and make all the text in this app larger.

I suggest you show your app to kids from age 6-8.   If you can make it even more fun for them it will also still be fun for teens and adults.

As a dad, who would like my kids to be able to use this, I also think that the copy and paste features should be made into regular buttons so you don't have to RIGHT click, or in the case of a macbook with a trackpad,  Control and tap on trackpad.    RIght clicking is not a very discoverable or friendly feature for this friendly app.

A much friendlier set of icons would have been an UP Arrow pointing TO a clipboard and a DOWN arrow point from the clipboard to your grid.

I think each track should have a volume + and - button, so that if the snare is not loud enough or is too loud, you can fix it.

I don't think this program should try to become FL Studio, but that plus the ability to HOLD a note and there would be a lot more possible songs you could make. Inability to HOLD a note and inability to set an instrument louder or quieter is very frustrating.

It should be possible to have especially bass notes hold.

Starting with MacOS 10.14,  Apple does not permit unsigned applications to run on Mac OS.

The two choices in the System Preferences app are:

* App Store Only

* Identified Developers and App Store

Since the 1BitDragon app is not signed, it will not start up on most recent Mac OS versions, but if the Identified Developers and App store option isto try to open the app and after the dialog box comes up that says you can't open it up, go to the Preferences and then click the item that will appear in security:

OpenAnyways: