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by puilp0502 42 days ago
I love this. This was always an idea I had in my head, because spinning up MuseScore just to write down some beats was so annoying. Glad someone already came up with the solution! Do you plan to release the compiler(uh, rasterizer/renderer)?
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Yes, having to deal with MuseScore was one of the reasons I started to work on this. I'm glad you picked up on it.

I definitely want to release it as an open source project, but there's still quite a bit of stuff left to do before I can. The biggest blocker is copyrighted material. There's a ton of copyrighted material in the test suite (oops), so I need to clean that up before releasing.

Also I want more demo songs that are not copyrighted before releasing, and so far all the songs I notated for myself are copyrighted, so that will probably take a while as well.

Also the IDE-style editor needs a lot of polishing before I'm ok having other people use it.

There's still a lot of stuff in the language itself I want to decide (what if I wanted to change time signatures in the middle of a song?), but I'm okay with releasing the project before that stuff is done. The two biggest things I have to do before thinking of releasing this is getting rid of copyrighted material in the codebase, and polishing the IDE. But I definitely want to release it!

Looking forward to it!