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   tj usiyan (griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com)'s status on Monday, 22-Jan-2024 10:05:52 JST tj usiyan

   In an effort to manage unrelated rage, I will be discussing a a couple libraries that I have written over the years. AMA

   TonalKit is a library meant to capture “everything” music theory. It does not because that’s quite the task but it has most of the obvious requests, I think. (Scales, chords, accidentals, etc). It has accumulated portions that are very much not music theory related (MIDI, for instance) as well.
   #TonalKit

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 22-Jan-2024 10:05:47 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @griotspeak Is this library available? It sounds fascinating and fun!

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 22-Jan-2024 10:16:13 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @griotspeak Well, I don’t know what I’d do with it tbh, but if you ever need a redhead to play with it…!

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     tj usiyan (griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com)'s status on Monday, 22-Jan-2024 10:16:14 JST tj usiyan

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @inthehands I have always planned to open source it. (if nothing else, when I retire or die.) Recently, I was chatting with Aurelius about making it work with AudioKit and that would probably be a good time if it happens.

     I wanted to make it available closed source for a while to fund further development of it but that just seems hard to successfully do.

     In short, not yet.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 01:21:11 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @griotspeak I hear that. In a similar dilemma about the static site generator I’m throwing together for my personal site revamp, which (1) is on a trajectory to be something that could be genuinely useful to a few people, and (2) I have no interest in spending serious time actively supporting.

     I miss the ethos of shareware of old: “I built this, try it for fun with no expectation of support, I’m just sharing it for the hell of it”

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     tj usiyan (griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 01:21:13 JST tj usiyan

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @inthehands the biggest thing holding me back *now* is that I have no confidence in my ability to manage any amount of community that might crop up. I have grown accustomed to doing whatever I want with these libraries for better and for worse. I know that I *could* just say “do with it what you will” but… I honestly feel like I should still manage to leverage the literal decade of work for *some* clear external benefit. I’m working on getting over that, though.