TuneSage progress update 1

There’s still lots of work to do on TuneSage. I’m hoping if I regularly blog some short progress updates, it may encourage productivity, as it did last year with Trovedex.¹

Right now I’m working on the front-end. As always, it’s a bit of a balancing act deciding what features need to be included and what features can wait to be added after launch. So far, the completed features include:

• Load a MIDI from file
• Mute / solo tracks
• Change track colors
• Show / hide tempo marks (from MIDI)
• Edit / delete tempos
• Show / hide measure lines
• Show / hide pitch lines
• Play MIDI

Features on the to-do list:

• Playing features
  • Play from a selected position
  • Play or loop a selection
  • Show play location in minutes / seconds
  • Pause play (saves play position)
• Move / create tempos (or tempo groups for accelerandos?)
• Note editing
  • Move / create / delete / edit notes or note groups
  • Copy / paste notes or note groups
  • Edit note velocities
• Track editing
  • Load track instrument from MIDI file
  • Edit track instrument
  • Edit track volume / stereo positions
• Load / display / edit key signatures
• MIDI loading
  • Load note velocities from MIDI
  • Fix MIDI loading bug: Extra note at end of file
• Saving / exporting
  • Save / load music pieces to / from personal database
  • Export music to MIDI
  • Export music to WAV or MP3
• Bookmark sections of a piece
• Zoom in and out (horizontally)
• Account
  • Confirm email (if necessary)
  • Log in / out / reset password
  • Edit optional personal info
  • Usage stats
• Final design pass (make everything look good)

That’s not counting the further work of integrating the back-end with the front-end.

Anyway, my goal is to finish all the above before the end of this month (April 2021), and then I can move on to integrating the back-end (which still needs a good bit of work itself).

Feel free to suggest any features you’d like; though, like I said, I’m only trying to do the minimum needed to launch.

1. Trovedex is, at the moment, not working, as the database went down; but seeing as how I was really the only one using it, I never got it up and running again; I’d like to work more on it at some point.