Forum - Banjo Ben Clark

Beta testers needed / Play with my app! It's fun!

#121

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For those of you joining me on the new link, you may have noticed some new buttons.

Full strum - not 100% implemented yet, but is available for major chords. Still inputting new samples. Turn on Full Strum to get both down and up guitar chord strums.

Embed Link - This will be for those content creators (hey Ben!) who would like to embed a specific song on their web site. This link will generate both a sharable URL and an iFrame Embed code to allow web masters to embed the song into their web site. I haven’t tested this one yet.

Share Link - This creates a link so you can share a song you built with others. They’ll get a link to a page where they can play your song with no membership required. If they want to save the song, they can do so and it will go into their browser’s local storage. They then have the option to create their own account where they can save as many songs as they want.

#122

Sure, my thought was that most page turners for music apps are a foot switch that allow you to turn the page hands free. Some also allow you to start and stop, and scroll up and down. So, if you were jamming with the app, you could use the foot switch to scroll down and choose your song, then start and stop it. If the song was running as a loop, you could stop whenever you were ready without taking your hands off of your instrument. Some foot switches will work with any device and others only work with certain devices or apps. Like I mentioned, mine is the Donner switch. It allowed me to scroll down in your app, but I couldn’t select a song or start and stop it. Not a big deal but could make jamming easier.

#123

One I thought of is Jammerbuddy.com (Jambuddy is already taken).

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#124

OK, so digging in to your foot switch, apparently it’s just sending keyboard taps to the computer. Most common signals are arrow keys, space bar, and Enter. Also, there’s apparently more than one model of the Donner switch.

I don’t know which keyboard signals your switch sends, so I just made some changes to go with the most common. Left arrow goes back a song. Right arrow goes forward a song. Space Bar starts and pauses the song. If you don’t know which keys your pedal sends, open a Notepad or Word document and start tapping on it. It’ll be obvious pretty quick what’s doing what.

Give it another try and let me know how it goes. Make sure to use the new link.

https://cqsys-ares.com/mark_sandbox/NewSampleTest.html

#125

Oh I have a list…

#126

I created an account without any issues.

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#127

Thanks for working on it. I can move through the songs but still can’t get it to play from the pedal. I think it is probably my pedal though. When I hit start , it starts playing a song from my iTunes library even though ITunes is closed. I will play around with it some more. Maybe I need a new pedal😁

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#128

From what I’ve read, some of those pedals have programmable instructions. Maybe it’s programmed to start iTunes and just needs to be reprogrammed to be a space bar. If you can teach it to do that, it’ll start and stop songs for you.

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#129

I vote for pickingpartner.

Need a tShirt:
You can pick your partner, you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your partner’s nose.

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#130

Another possibility is Pickinbuddy.com (and it is available, not taken yet). To me this sounds a little friendlier than Pickinpartner).

#131

That’s not a bad name at all. The question is, will it be something people can tell each other and remember? You’re at a camp, someone says “hey check out pickinbuddy.com when you get home.”

Do you remember to drop the g? Honest question.

#132

That is a good and interesting point, that could be an issue. An alternative is picking-buddy.com (pickingbuddy is already taken), but with that dash that might not be any better than dropping the g.

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#133

Yeah, there are a ton of great names if you’re willing to live with a dash. I’d rather not.

#134

Another suggestion is pickingpracticebuddy.com (this one is available). It is a little longer URL but it is fairly catchy and easy to remember. Yea, almost all the obvious good ones are taken.

#135

Yeah that’s way too long. I’m trying to keep it under 12 characters + the “.com”

I can’t believe I haven’t thought of this one yet, and it’s available. pickersjam.com

#136

That sounds like a good one to me, but I am probably not a very good judge of picking website names.

#137

jampicker.com is even one letter shorter.

#138

Yes, and that one sounds better, and I think it is a even better one.

#139

OH! jamtrainer.com That encompasses several of the concepts I’m trying to convey. The app is good for learning how to jam, good AT jams, good for training… how did I not think of that one before?

#140

OK, guys and gals. I know I didn’t give you a chance to vote on it, but jamtrainer.com just spoke to me. It’s the first one I found (out of many dozens) that just felt right.

So welcome to Jam Trainer!

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