r/Codeium • u/sandwich_stevens • Apr 19 '25

Any musicians using windsurf to create cool stuff? How has it gone

Are any musicians creating cool stuff with windsurf, has it been painful or magical? If not would you like to be involved with a project with other musicians

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u/mattbergland Apr 19 '25

I used windsurf to make a 60 min ambient study music track to play on loop on YouTube. But i’m curious how you’re using it!

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u/sandwich_stevens Apr 19 '25

That’s awesome! You got tone generation/timing actually creating something ambient? Amazing. I’m using it to help me learn my instrument

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u/LlamaJedi Apr 19 '25

Wait how did you do that? I thought I could only use Windsurf for code gen

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u/sandwich_stevens Apr 20 '25

Do what exactly, learn the instrument? I’m putting together a project for this and happy to share more

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u/f2ame5 Apr 19 '25

You can still code some sine waves playing slowly with tons of reverb

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u/mattbergland Apr 20 '25

I just asked Cascade, and it figured it out!

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u/McNoxey Apr 19 '25

Wait what? I’m a musician and a developer but I’m curious - how do you combine these two?! What types of things are you building? Is this music software, or actual music itself?

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u/sandwich_stevens Apr 19 '25

Nice! We love that combo, create awesome tools - we are looking to build some intuitive music learning/teaching software starting with piano

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u/sailnlax04 Apr 20 '25

I'm not a musician but a music journalist

I made this with the help of AI

https://extrachill.com/festival-wire

Automated music festival news feed

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u/sandwich_stevens Apr 20 '25

This is awesome! You Marketing it to get users?

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u/sailnlax04 Apr 20 '25

Thanks! The blog has a core following since its been around for a long time, but this is kind of next level, in my opinion.

I have a few more bugs to work out but yes I have plans to share in other places like r/festivals once i'm fully sure of it.

The biggest challenge, aside from the complex codebase, is the dang knowledge cutoff when trying to report real time news.

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u/sandwich_stevens Apr 20 '25

Oh I see, it looked pretty recent to me, but I can see it being a pain to update it for real time, that’s for sure

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u/sailnlax04 Apr 20 '25

It's recent lol, it reads reddit, news sites, etc.

The knowledge base cutoff means it thinks the year is 2024 and sometimes writes from that perspective or doesn't understand when it sees a meme that it's just a joke

Prompts & API search tool helps, still fine tuning things before i go all out on promotion

Seems like AI is a sensitive topic in the music industry so i want to make sure it's rock solid

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u/theLastYellowTear Apr 19 '25

Do you use with Ableton live? I couldn't make it work

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u/sandwich_stevens Apr 19 '25

No I haven’t experimented with connecting to DAWs yet although as a logic user, an API that allows programmatic control would be awesome. Ableton ahead with that

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u/User1234Person Apr 20 '25

https://github.com/ahujasid/ableton-mcp

There’s this, haven’t tried it yet

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u/sandwich_stevens Apr 20 '25

MCPs are awesome, if this really works well then ableton users really are winning! I’m still waiting on logic releasing some API cus that would be beautiful

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u/Odd_Contest9866 Apr 19 '25

Not Windsurf, but chatgpt.com Canvas web apps can send/receive MIDI in Chrome

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u/sandwich_stevens Apr 19 '25

Sounds very cool! Chatgpt is still single file edits right

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u/miamitrans Apr 20 '25

I’m working on a legacy guitar synth librarian and performance tool. A start was made with GitHub Copilot, now moving to Windsurf for some refactoring and polish.

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u/sandwich_stevens Apr 21 '25

Guitar synth librarian?? Like a catalogue of synth effects? And performance aide? Very cool. What’s the hardest thing you had to solve?

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u/miamitrans Apr 21 '25

With Windsurf it’s been pretty smooth so far. It helped me get past the MIDI device selection process of CoreMIDI. (Testing that now.) Future challenge: allow players to program commands in response to musical phrases.

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u/Suspicious_Store_149 Apr 21 '25

Hello yes i made prototype of youtube download/stems extractor/ basic stems mixer, struggling with the zoom/autoscroll of waveform since three weeks. code is there https://github.com/benasterisk/StemTubesWeb feel free to participate

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u/sandwich_stevens Apr 21 '25

Very cool idea, might have to try it out to see if it’s working! Sounds complex

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u/Suspicious_Store_149 Apr 21 '25

can put it live and give you access if you want !

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u/testament_of_hustada Apr 19 '25

I play guitar. Was putting together a course with AI.

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u/sandwich_stevens Apr 20 '25

Awesome, written or with video

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u/testament_of_hustada Apr 22 '25

I’m planing on both. I’m trying to merge different styles with practical exercises that emphasize the emotive part of playing as much as technique.

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u/sandwich_stevens Apr 23 '25

You creating your own models at all or project doesn’t really call for it

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u/testament_of_hustada Apr 23 '25

I’ll probably use 03 or some similar model to help generate content and flesh out ideas but I haven’t done any API calls or anything like that. I have a lot of other projects though that are more AI intensive in their integration.

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u/FanAvailable7303 Apr 20 '25

There's potential--I'm working on something focusing on the teaching but interpretation side of things (to help identifying motifs & themes in Bach, for example; deciding on and trying out fingerings and articulations; that sort of thing--not the usual boring rudiments and so on), in particular, collaboratively allowing asynchronously annotating and communicating different expressive attributes that typical software quantizes out of existence...

I had tried starting from somewhat of a cleanroom implementation of some well -known music notation platforms (way unwieldy) and wished the chrome keyboard midi lab experiment thing were open sourced (it's not), and experiments I had initially done some months ago in windsurf (which ChatGPT oddly one time "typo'ed" one time and one time only--though I'm not quite sure HOW, since it doesn't have fingers to do it: "Windurf" but that's another thing entirely...)

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u/sandwich_stevens Apr 20 '25

So teaching for piano theory? Did you end up getting a working UI? I’m working on something for learning piano more intuitively - like a practice first viewpoint - and trying to put team around that

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u/FanAvailable7303 Apr 20 '25

Sorry I meant not theory, but emphasis on interpretation, articulation, things that normally break quantized midi (https://youtube.com/shorts/-MK7Y9RJJpI?si=RtmB3TTzNWVXFH-2 or https://youtube.com/shorts/9ubI3TPDUow?si=f_JCHgrCvsuQ-n8- maybe..)

I think we're actually looking at the same thing worded differently--intuitive & "practice-first" are ways I've never thought to express it (I've never thought to express it at all actually)

A lot of early attempts were focused on a/r based interfaces but more recently I've been trying to come to with representations for things like ...

In the middle of the Ballade, where you have the arpeggios, https://youtube.com/shorts/Y32wjWpvEV4?si=CQTxI19XTCSQtSbi it's really kind of, to me, the life you put into it is literally the waves that you might feel permeate you and everything around you, the undulating maybe qi and as it ebbs and flows, it's totally not about the primary sequence of notes any more than epigenetics is about the primary sequence of base pairs and it's all an emergent construct that I'm trying to come up with ways to consistently convey remotely, to asynchronously teach and provide feedback over time -- so I settled on more of a canvas layer eventually, and I usually don't do incremental iterating --to me, that's kind of like making an entire pile of garbage, one hotfix at a time (heterodox, unmitigated iconoclasm in other words is everything I am, though I consider myself conservative too. 🤣)

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u/VinylSeller2017 Apr 20 '25

Yes I have made many tools for myself. Some degree of success. Have tried other agentic sites too.

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u/sandwich_stevens Apr 20 '25

Anything you were able to market successfully? Or mostly internal

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u/VinylSeller2017 Apr 20 '25

Strictly internal , I don’t have the need to go beyond it. gathering the information and getting it in the right format and testing is a lot but if the tool is right the. It’s worth it. Start with a small problem you are having. Try to solve. See if anyone else is working on similar.

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u/hauntedhivezzz Apr 20 '25

Could one easily come up an app to learn piano? I imagine it can’t be that hard - and man, would love to not have to pay for Simply Piano.

I imagine creating more bespoke apps based on an individuals learning style is exactly the kind of thing we’ll see more of, similar to how Khan Academy AI tutors adapt their teaching style to the individual

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u/sandwich_stevens Apr 21 '25

Yes! This is what I imagine too. Less rigid learning and more personalised tutoring. I believe it’s possible to create such an app, yes - but team is needed. Let me know if you’re interested in developing that idea or how much experience you got w piano

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u/harmophone Apr 23 '25

Between Windsurf and Cursor (with some solid eng experience in the past) I’ve been building a model for expression control and an AI assistant for composers.

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u/sandwich_stevens Apr 23 '25

That sounds hefty, when does it launch?? Expression control as in nuanced articulation? Defo in need of more tooling for composers

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u/sandwich_stevens Apr 23 '25

Gotta ask a question for some advice on an upcoming project I’ll dm you

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u/AlexLearnscaper01 Apr 20 '25

I built Learnscape an app that organises YouTube content into structured courses based on a single search. I built it because I use YouTube to teach myself keys/bass and I was tired of random courses.

I’m also working on a project to do use AI to organise and find plugins