Miditui
A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback
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HN · launched Jan 8, 2026 · 66 upvotes (top 16%) · 0 views
Niche: software synthesizers and midi tools · 119 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -64% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 119 launches in software synthesizers and midi tools →
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 : 2121 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #346 of 2122 (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 0.73
- coopiano · github · 2026-10-14 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- soundpad-audio-suite · github · 2026-11-06 · 480 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- encore-music-notation · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- QWERTY MIDI · hn · 2026-08-07 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- traktor-audio-mixer · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- reaper-audio-daw · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Fraktur, a DJ mixing app in the browser · hn · 2026-10-30 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.68
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