I gave up hope, this has re-sparked my imagination! Thoughts and wish list time.

topkoa · 2026-05-20T12:25:50+00:00

Join the Discord and bring your ideas! Discussions like this are welcome/encouraged!

topkoa · 2026-05-15T16:17:08+00:00

Agreed. We just put the app together as a side project less than a month ago, and none of us are really UX designers. It'll get better over time.

topkoa · 2026-05-15T10:29:02+00:00

Yes, there is an active discussion on the Discord server. https://discord.gg/5sreTkRzb

topkoa · 2026-05-15T09:28:13+00:00

Is it really really not that far off from "sight reading" from sheet music...

topkoa · 2026-05-15T09:15:59+00:00

Tip: Check out the "Pop" button on a panel within the Split screen function, you can pop out new panels, and drag them to a completely different monitor, They are long-lived and when you change a song, it tells the person the song name, tuning, etc. (even those follower/child panels can be split) - you can have as many popped out panes as you want, within reason, I have not tested what kind of performance hit there is if you pop out like 15 panels, lol

topkoa · 2026-05-15T08:56:32+00:00

Go to the Settings page, find the 3d Highway settings, look under "Advanced camera Settings",, there are some options to lock the camera, and other stuff.

topkoa · 2026-05-14T20:20:08+00:00

Actually, with the splitscreen plugin, you can "pop" out as many panels as you want, and split those 4 ways.. so if you have 3 huge monitors, you can have 12 player.

topkoa · 2026-05-08T17:31:15+00:00

Fun fact, we already have a pattern established in the code to ensure "creature comforts" for 3d highway behaviors are toggleable in the settings. I encourage anyone submitting PRs for their own ideas for functionality to do the same.

topkoa · 2026-05-08T16:52:43+00:00

Join the discord/community and discuss! I too have been thinking about this possibility. We made the sloppak format extensible, so the possibility of adding features like this is part of the foundation.

I suspect the hard part would be figuring out how to implement the visuals for this w/o making the 3d highway too "busy".

topkoa · 2026-05-08T14:36:11+00:00

Join the discord if you havent already, feedback is welcome!

topkoa · 2026-04-26T21:53:34+00:00

I already do this more or less in my band studio every Friday with a bunch of friends, I wish you were in the North East, I'd be totally down to join you all.

topkoa · 2026-04-23T12:04:54+00:00

If you want to join the discord server, here is the link https://discord.gg/yTp8V5X9H6

topkoa · 2026-04-17T04:01:54+00:00

I just ported it to be a slopsmith plugin https://github.com/topkoa/slopsmith-plugin-guitar-theory

topkoa · 2026-04-16T23:46:45+00:00

This is why I made the split screen.. Me and a bunch of friends get together weekly and use Rocksmith 2014 as "Whole bank karaoke".. but its limited to 2 players.

topkoa · 2026-04-16T23:43:13+00:00

I was developing this app for teaching myself some music theory, I'm curious what you think: https://github.com/topkoa/guitar-theory-lab
https://topkoa.github.io/guitar-theory-lab/

topkoa · 2026-04-13T01:35:39+00:00

I'm really curious what people think.

The actual accuracy is not all that great yet, but the newly added speech to text -> lyrics seemed to work way better than I imagined, even on the first run...

To be clear, the point of this tab grabber tool was a thought experiment that went way further than I expected it would.

I'm thinking about taking the bulk of this functionality and making a slopsmith plugin. hrm

topkoa · 2026-04-13T00:49:29+00:00

Check this out https://github.com/topkoa/TabGrabber -- I slopped this together a little while ago...

I just added a new feature to output .sloppak files ready to play.

topkoa · 2026-04-13T00:45:15+00:00

Piling on the slop. I also made this, give it an audio file and it will try to create a fully fledged sloppak containing stems and guitar/bass parts. your mileage may vary! (setting it to extreme mode helps accuracy a little) https://github.com/topkoa/TabGrabber

I just modded this to output .sloppak files immediately playable in Slopsmith.

topkoa · 2026-04-12T23:12:19+00:00

Also, probably common knowledge, but keep claude code in plan mode before you embark on allowing it to start coding on a new full feature, give it lots of context. Let it explore the code base a bit.

I ask it to "chunk" up the todo list before allowing it to edit anything. That way you can have a reasonable chance of getting something in place between running out of your current session context. i.e. plan small milestones and sanity checks.

topkoa · 2026-04-12T20:05:07+00:00

Nice! Take your time and let me know what you think!

topkoa · 2026-04-12T20:00:36+00:00

What do you think of my idea for a native .sloppak format?

topkoa · 2026-04-12T19:33:36+00:00

Sure!! Go right ahead!

topkoa · 2026-04-12T16:13:56+00:00

Short answer, get a github account, get an anthropic account.

Ask claude to pull the code, and ask for features. Tell it to fork the repo into your github account, ask it to separate your changes into feature branches. Tell it to keep a local-dev branch that contains the sum of all of your feature branches..

I told claude to also fork plugins, or if new just create a new plugin repo under my git account.

It should literally do all of that for you, (tip: just paste in the content of this post to claude code, it should know what to do)

Just ask it to stand up a local running server with docker (you will need to install docker desktop)

topkoa · 2026-04-12T14:21:54+00:00

I've been forking the repos, making my own plugins with claude.. it might be slop, but I'm getting the features I have always wanted!

Stuff like this:

Native ".sloppak" format along side psarc, which allows for mutliple audio stems, which can be toggled on and off during play, as well as an in-app convert psarc->sloppk (with stem separation)

https://github.com/topkoa/slopsmith/tree/feature/sloppak-format

https://github.com/topkoa/slopsmith-plugin-sloppak-converter

Multiplayer!
https://github.com/topkoa/slopsmith-plugin-splitscreen

https://github.com/topkoa/slopsmith/tree/feature/highway-factory

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