Looking ahead, it would be rad if some form of real-time collab could happen with MuseScore, either with the software or MuseScore.com embed.
My idea is that I can use it with my teacher during our remote lessons to make our back and forth playing clearer (we both have digital keyboards with midi out). Sharing this over zoom without a good audio interface and microphone is difficult for people that aren’t tech savvy, I’m aiming to bridge the gap somewhere at least for digital keyboard players/teachers, and then seeing if it works or not.
Midi data could be used to render inputs on the remote peer in the case where the user doesn’t have a good enough camera to capture many octaves, though I don’t think that’s necessary for a first release.
Anyway, development of a prototype is almost done and then I’ll be doing some internal testing with my teacher to see if it’s worth opening up to the world, let me know if something like this is interesting to you and I can follow up if/when I need more testing done!
Lots of our customers use MuseScore. You can export as MusicXML and load into Soundslice with minimal fuss.
Apart from the considerable effort of having to enter the sheet music, there is one problem. At least where I teach, the big no-no prohibiting us from using this is always the copyright issues.
A public music academy where I teach once got sued by the local sheet music copyright maff^^^organisation. Not because piracy was rampant. It wasn't. It most probably happened to us because at the time, our boss was relatively young and they guessed easier to push around.
No larger music educational organisation will want to touch nice toys like you built before getting a legal opinion they have no budget for :-( Hat off to you for spotting that and staying at the teacher level. Good luck with your project.
P.S. Always welcome if you'd like to have chat about where music education and technology touch!
(I see in your HN bio that you're a Django user — thanks for using it!)
Happy to hear that you're experiencing success in many places. Soundslice looks like a wonderful educational tool!
Also, thank you for your work on Django!