Being able start playback from any bar. | Voters | Beat Note (Kick Snare Hat Apps)

Being able start playback from any bar.

complete

Andrew Moore

For example you want to focus on bars 4 - 8. The ability to start and loop the playback from 4 to 8 instead of listening and waiting to a full piece

August 22, 2023

Derek Lee

marked this post as

complete

I'm excited to announce this feature was completed in the latest release v2.14! 🎉

I think there are additional ways to enhance this feature even further, so please download the latest version and let me know how your experience is!

Derek Lee

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in progress

I've started development on this feature. It's a bit complicated and will take some time to complete, so look for it in an upcoming update.

Derek Lee

Hello friends! I have some mockups with some sample designs for this feature. Please review the following design mockups and share your feedback with me. 
Specifically, I'm curious to know:
#1. Which icon/mockup most clearly communicates the intent of the icon? 
#2. What do you think the icon itself means? 
Here's a Dropbox link to the mockups: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/4jcpcu2j7vbha6deeeog9/h?rlkey=uhy87ld3vv82za9g28a3f7a69&dl=0
Thank you!

Derek Lee

Given a beat that has several measures...

Derek Lee

Long-tap on a measure to bring it into focus and display a context menu...

Derek Lee

Then the screen would show measure before that measure as inactive and an icon to illustrate where the beat will start to play from:

Derek Lee

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planned

Marking this feature as planned for development. Thanks to everyone for your votes! 🎉

Derek Lee

Thanks for creating this feature request, Andrew! 🙇🏻‍♂️ Although this feature is on my radar, it hadn't yet been created here on the public-facing website. Thank you for adding it here!

I recently shared some design mockups for this feature and some related features for playback in an Instagram reel. Please take a look at this and share any feedback you have! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cv0JoCsIGxM/

There are a few scenarios that I'm trying to cover that are all related to playback (in increasing order of complexity):

Repeating the entire beat (what is supported currently)
Repeating each measure of a beat a configured number of times (as requested by another user) (see https://roadmap.beat-note.app/feature-requests/p/as-a-student-i-want-to-practice-a-beat-by-repeating-each-measure-of-the-beat-a-c)
Choosing the start/stop measure for playback from the beginning of measure A to the end of measure B (I believe this matches this request you've created 👍🏻).
Choosing a "partial phrase" or "segment" of music to start playback from note X of measure A to note Y of measure B (for example, "from the "e" of beat 2 measure #3 to the "&" of beat 1 measure #4).

Looking forward to your feedback! 😃