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by emitstop 4192 days ago
As someone who spends a lot of his time playing around with drum machines, I couldn't figure out how to use this. I was only able to make lines without laying down any individual notes. Not sure what I'm missing here?

Also another thing to note, is that setting up the key triggers in alphabetical order like that is odd and really unintuitive. The standard for most digital audio workstations is to line up the top two rows of qwerty keys like they are piano keys (qwerty row = black piano keys, home row = white piano keys), and use 'z' and 'x' to change the octave.

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Same here. Cannot figure out the interface at all. Chromium. Pressing letters actuates a sound effect once, okay. Numbers for the effects. Okay. Left and right arrow keys changes BPM. Fine. Other than that, I cannot seem to lay down any notes in the sequence at all. No idea what the vertical line means when I click to try to lay down a note.
I'm having the same issue. I can't place notes. Clicking "?" doesn't show any more information than the tooltips.

Interesting idea though...

Appreciate your feedback! Putting '-' in your sequence will have add a 1 unit gap between your beat! We're changing the letters order to match qwerty soon!
Derek, I don't think people realize you have to retweet to get this to work? I had the same issue...

I agree with other people who complain about this. I shouldn't have to tweet something in order to see the results.

If you scroll below, you can read: "To add your own notes, sign in with Twitter.".