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Hello,

For helping people to write slang syntax, it could be nice to implement a visual of all instruments and his notes.
Why not a graphical builder too ?

It'd be great to be able to store patterns, etc as variables for re-use. Maybe it'd be good to distinguish it from sound objects, but it'd be an excellent addition either way.

Users should be able to save their patches to a unique URL for storing and sharing.

Slang is a static site served directly by nginx at the moment, so this will involve adding a super-simple express server (which should still serve index.html from /public as a static file) with:

• a POST /save endpoint that accepts a JSON blob containing a text field with the slang code
• a GET /:patch route that loads the patch from a mongo database (if it is found) and renders it to a template so that the code can be pre-populated in the editor

Stretch goals:

• add an optional title field
• add a "saved patches" UI which stores the title and URL to localStorage so your saves hang around

I see that to specify a Rhythm we can either use absolute values (time in seconds) or a kind of rhythmic notation, which is an integer + n or t

I see it has to do with compound times, and by testing it, I saw that #n represents a time span of 2/# seconds, and #t represents a time span of 4/(3#) seconds. So if we have a 4t and a 2n, the first one will make 3 beats for every beat of the second one.

However, I can't figure out what's the logic behind this, or I can't find any reference on this notation (I don't know how is it called). Or also why we don't have a 2t or 1t. It would be good to have a bit more documentation around this.

So, please... add this support... It would be good to open my sound with an extension of its own or a protocol. It would be cool and easy to have direct access to the files without much trouble. ;D

I'd love to see a CLI that converts MIDI files into Slang and vice versa.

The (drums) function can be extended to support a type argument, e.g. (drums 2), which controls what set of samples is played. A precedent around lazy loading each kit was already established in Drums.js; extending this should be easy and won't force users to download audio files unnecessarily.

So, please... add support for autocomplete code in Sublime Text and very others programs this type. ;D