Miditui
A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback
Details
- External ID
- 46543359
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Miditui
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 66
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8432147562582345
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- music creation and audio software
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal app for midi composing and mixing
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a terminal UI (TUI) built with standard libraries (like Ratatui or Textual) interacting with standard MIDI libraries for parsing, editing, and audio/device output.
Discussion
13 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Voyetra Sequencer Gold/Plus Gold, Cakewalk, Horizontal trackers, Bevy-based MIDI sequencer (Rust), Backing-tracks (Go TUI with MIDI output)
Concerns raised: Overstating what can be validated in hours/days without AGI, TUI sequencers already existed since the 1980s, Sound not working on macOS
Feature requests: Quantization options (eighth, quarter, half notes), Recording feature for real MIDI device composition, Ukulele support (4 strings variant)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 772 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #147 of 773 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 70 days after the earliest competitor.
- jevthoven · github · 2026-09-17 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- QWERTY MIDI · hn · 2026-08-07 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- pianoroll · github · 2026-09-21 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Clef · hn · 2026-08-07 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- MusicPlaygournd · github · 2026-09-09 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Vibez · hn · 2026-08-09 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- OpenWire · github · 2026-09-22 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- omatune · github · 2026-09-14 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.63
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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