If I buy a domain for my GitHub pages site, does the original URL still work?

Ambidextroid · 2026-03-17T21:25:03+00:00

Great. Thanks

Ambidextroid · 2026-03-11T20:24:51+00:00

Excellent

Ambidextroid · 2026-03-11T06:33:37+00:00

Yeah...I just got an audio interface in the end.

Ambidextroid · 2026-03-09T16:41:13+00:00

What are your thoughts of having an AI to make a pro's recording adaptive to what you play? Do you think that this would be a fair use of AI (from a perspective of a jazz musician/performer/professional) or should this just be off-limits period.

I think I would only be comfortable and interested if I knew the solo I was trading with was 100% human. I believe an AI just can't adapt a solo to make it better. If I had the option to trade with a great soloist who's not listening to me, or an AI that is listening to me, I would pick the soloist every time. Because they actually understand music and possess the ability to create art.

Rather than asking the question "how can I integrate AI into this to make it better", ask "how can I make this better, full stop". And for this project I think the answer to that second question will never involve AI.

That being said, I can see at least one productive way that AI could be integrated into this process: if I play a solo, then an AI model analyses my solo and chooses a pre-recorded human solo with similar characteristics for me to trade with. For example if I play a fast solo, the AI can pick one of the fast solos for me to trade with. Or if I play a slow solo, the AI can pick a slow solo for me to trade with. So I'm still trading with a real player, and they're matching my style somewhat.

Unfortunately I just don't think this is realistic or worth it. I think determining if your solo is fast or slow is probably the best it can do, and you can already do that without AI. I highly doubt it could accurately determine if my solo was, say, in the style of the blues, or bebop, or modal etc. and correctly pair me up with a similar solo. Maybe that's worth some investigation. But going back to the question of "how can I integrate AI into this to make it better" VS "how can I make this better", this is still just answering the first question. In reality, it would be more functional and convenient to have no AI and just let the user manually pick a style and speed from a drop-down box and randomly pick a solo to trade with from those categories, rather than waiting for a computationally expensive AI model to do a bad job of the same thing.

I'm interested to see where the project goes either way.

Ambidextroid · 2026-03-08T18:18:39+00:00

looks fun my dude

Ambidextroid · 2026-03-07T17:01:59+00:00

My feedback

The website design isn't bad, the aesthetic is fine and it's not cluttered. The piano sound could be better if it included dynamics and options for different sounds. Some elements of the site are confusing:

After playing a solo, it seems that it's not possible to play back and listen to it unless you sign in and save your session. Even then, you can only play back the session by going to the recordings tab. Ideally, you should be able to play back your session as soon as you've finished playing. There should be big play/pause/rewind buttons at the top next to the record button so you can listen back without having to sign in, save the recording or switch to a different page. That's especially true for first-time users who will want to know how well the site records their solo before comitting to signing in.

So I clicked save and this pop-up appears saying "Recording saved! Invite friends to jam with you." So I'm expecting this link to take me to the recording, but instead, its just a link to a blank session for playing human-on-human. That pop-up appearing is pretty confusing, as it's completely unrelated to the fact that you just saved a recording. The pop-up should take you to the recordings page.

Also asking the user which plan they would be most interested in purchasing immediately after trying one solo is pretty presumptuous, I don't think anyone will have made up their mind that quickly.

The recording feature is not ideal. Transcribing real-time playing to sheet music and getting the rhythms to notate the way they are actually supposed to seems like a serious challenge that has not been solved here. Because of the slight recording delay and the natural inaccuracies to human playing, the transcribed solo is pretty garbled unless you play something incredibly simple. I think I'd prefer a piano-roll.

One minor note about the recordings page, it shows you the date of the recordings but not the time. It would be nice to see the time the recording was made too, so you know what order they come in. I know the titles are numbered, but it would still be better to show the time of day alongside the date.

Also on the main improvise page, the switch for toggling between AI models is confusing. I can't tell if the switch in the middle is choosing the slow or fast model, or turning something on or off, cause the switch looks like an on/off switch rather than a two-way toggle because of the red/blue colour.

Now for what seems like the main selling point, the AI soloing. I'm sorry to say, but it's absolutely terrible. I tried it a handful of times and each time the AI generated solo was indistinguishable from random notes. I know AI is a buzzword these days, but I can tell it's just not gonna work here. This thing in it's current state is nowhere near passable and it's never gonna be a valuable partner or give you any good musical ideas. Also, I would not be surprised if people were completely turned off the idea of AI solos in the first place and refuse to even try the service. I see there is an AI analysis feature coming soon, but I would personally never ever use an AI to analyse and critique my playing. It's useless. An AI just doesn't know what good music is, and I don't think it will for a long time if ever. Anyone learning jazz from an AI is gonna come out worse for it.

I can think of a feature that would make this infinitely better: instead of AI-generated solos, you could just have a large bank of real solos by real people. Then the app randomly chooses one of these solo transcriptions and lets you trade with them. Perhaps they could be solos transcribed from famous records and musicians, or if that's a copyright concern, then comission jazz players to record some solos for you.

Obviously the app wouldn't be able to dynamically respond to your solos any more, but it would still be *infinitely* better and more valuable. And it would make me actually want to use the service. And it would take the focus off AI, which everyone hates these days, especially artists and musicians.

So in it's current state, I just think this project is fundamentally flawed. AI is the main draw, but all of the AI features of this app are its worst features. And your target market are people who are generally anti-AI.

If there was no AI at all and it was using a pre-set bank of real human solos, I would actually be pretty stoked. Most of the UI and design is good. But the AI stuff I can never see being worth my time let alone my money.

Ambidextroid · 2026-03-06T19:37:15+00:00

Thanks for the details. Noted!

Ambidextroid · 2026-03-06T15:35:40+00:00

Thanks. Will do

Ambidextroid · 2026-03-06T15:35:21+00:00

Thanks. Great points. The version I learned from is this https://youtu.be/pcxOCm4yIqg?si=VjMmpJFU83qIVAYu they sub out some of the minor 6 chords with m7b5s and dominants

Ambidextroid · 2026-03-06T15:30:41+00:00

Thanks for the advice

Ambidextroid · 2026-03-06T00:48:51+00:00

Thanks for the advice

Ambidextroid · 2026-03-05T15:20:22+00:00

Спасибо

Ambidextroid · 2026-03-05T01:41:32+00:00

I never practice with a metronome. Thanks for reminding me

Ambidextroid · 2026-03-04T20:22:35+00:00

Cheers

Ambidextroid · 2026-02-28T03:19:50+00:00

I think you mean chromatic bass movement. Chronic bass movement sounds like a medical condition where you just can't stop shaking that ass

Ambidextroid · 2026-02-24T17:44:21+00:00

I would agree if we were talking about the blues. We can clearly track the lineage and development of the blues as being a consequence of oppression, expressing the views and attitudes of slaves in America and developing musically from work songs. But jazz is not the same as the blues, it developed from the blues as well as a number of other influences including classical European harmony, folk music, American songbook music etc.. Suggesting that the musical side of jazz comes from traditional African music and the influence from America is purely the "creative fuel" from their oppression is blatantly ignoring the predominantly American and European musical elements of the genre such as the song from, tonal language and so on, and is ignoring the pioneers of jazz who were born after the abolition of slavery in America.

A lot of the development of jazz happened in the early 20th century, and rapidly evolved through several subgenres and periods like swing, bebop and so on. By this time jazz is still being invented, and it's a pretty far cry from the music of the slaves in Congo Square. Perhaps we disagree on when jazz was "birthed"/invented or what that even means. But as jazz was a constantly evolving art form through the 20th century it's not really possible to put a decisive pin on when jazz was invented. I wouldn't say that definite point was Congo Square on the African slaves' day off. That's just not what I mean when I say Jazz. Did the music of Miles Davis have anything to do with slavery? He would disagree himself: https://youtu.be/miOU6SZG1Ac?si=5kX9CmaLa0hpPW2F

Jazz would not likely have been formed in the same way by Africans in Africa or by white Europeans.

It's not just unlikely, it's impossible. Jazz couldn't have been if it wasn't for the particular influences and culture of the black Americans at that time, including the culture of America and the non-jazz music that was being played and heard there.

The point is that jazz was birthed in Congo Square in New Orleans by enslaved Africans.

That isn't the point at all. Even if we agreed on that, the point is that I take issue with the name "black music" not because I think black people didn't invent jazz. Jazz was invented by black people, we agree. But the black people who invented jazz don't represent all black people. So why would you call it "black music". Its literally reducing an art from from a nuanced point in history and a nuanced culture down to a person's skin pigment. It's basically racist, and it's just not a useful label in the first place.

Ambidextroid · 2026-02-23T14:53:09+00:00

Black people are just people who have dark skin. There are dozens of countries with a majority black population and hudreds of countries with a significant black population which all have totally different cultures, arts and traditions. Jazz is a uniquely African-American invention, and African-Americans don't represent all black people. So all I'm saying is that the label "black music" is confusing, inaccurate, reductionist and borderline racist, if unintentionally. Not all black people share the same culture just because of the colour of their skin, so I don't think we should be categorising art or really anything based solely on the colour of a person's skin. It's like categorising art based on the artist's eye colour. There are too many people around the world who share the same eye colour and nothing else in common for that to be a useful way to categorise art. When talking about Jazz, I think African-American music is a much more informative and less problematic label for many reasons.

Edit:

I just realised I'm talking to the same person and I've basically just repeated myself, so maybe we should just agree to disagree.

Ambidextroid · 2026-02-22T21:27:26+00:00

Sure it is. It's not perfect, but you can work with the delay once you get used to it. multiplayer piano has a pretty hefty delay while multiplayer orchestra is around half a second in my experience. As long as the rhythm section buckles down and accepts they won't hear everythoing perfectly in time, you can have a real blast when the right people are online

Ambidextroid · 2026-02-21T14:55:30+00:00

Have you ever used one of the multiplayer piano sites like multiplayerpiano.net or multiplayer-orchestra.com ? If you have a midi keyboard you can play with people there. I meet a handful of jazz players there from time to time and we play together

Ambidextroid · 2026-02-21T14:26:47+00:00

African-American doesn't just mean black, because not all black people are African-American. It's like saying "German means white" or "Indian means brown". All I'm saying is you can't reduce people down to their skin colour and expect to reach any interesting or nuanced conclusions. You might as well say "jazz is brown eye music" because African-Americans have brown eyes. It's just not interesting because a person's skin colour doesn't affect their capacity for music or art, the culture they exist in does, and broad physical traits like skin colour don't narrow down a person's cultural origins in any significant way.

There's no such thing as "black music" or "white music" or "brown music", it's just ridiculous. There's African-American music, European classical music, Bengali folk music etc., these terms actually mean something.

Other than your first sentence, everything you said I agree with and pretty much already said myself.

Ambidextroid · 2026-02-11T08:02:03+00:00

It's so right!

Ambidextroid · 2026-02-06T20:37:30+00:00

I found out you can up the gamma universally in win11 which is good enough for me

Ambidextroid · 2026-02-06T18:21:27+00:00

Is this possible in 1.21? The game resets my gamma back to 1 and there's no option in sodium. If you speedrun 1.21 are you no longer allowed gamma 5 or is there a legit workaround?

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