Three things for classical ensemble rehearsals:
- First two are mostly about timing, not notes. Use a metronome on the slowest beat in the piece.
- Identify the bass voice (rhythmically stable) before being assigned. Easiest to land on first.
- A fretboard map by key helps sight-reading more than another month of scale practice.
Local no-cloud tool I build, Community Free covers it:
- Fretboard Lab: https://hannes-software.com/fretboard-lab/
Lifetime license only if it sticks.
After a decade off, the derailer is trying to start where you left off. One week of just open chords. Then one song you like, slow 50%, play along until boring, up to 60%. Stuck on a chord shape? Leave it, come back tomorrow.
Local no-cloud tool I build, Community Free covers it:
- Session Craft (slow / loop / pitch-shift): https://hannes-software.com/session-craft/
Lifetime license only if you stick with it.
Music tools I built, all lifetime-licensed and offline-first:
- Fretboard Lab: guitar chords + voicings
- Session Craft: practice workstation (slow-down, loop, pitch shift)
- LowEnd Forge: bass-tab from audio
- Practice Rack: guitar amp + looper
One payment, no cloud subscriptions. https://hannes-software.com/music-tools
Sometimes you just want to plug in and play — not boot a giant DAW first.
Practice Rack is a fast-launching desktop guitar rig: tuner, effects chain, looper, recorder, BPM-synced practice, and saved presets. Open it, dial a tone, start practicing in seconds.
Local, pay once, no account required.
https://hannes-software.com/practice-rack/
Transcribing a bassline is miserable when the low end is buried under the whole mix.
LowEnd Forge is a bass-first transcription workbench: isolate the low-end signal, draft the tab, fix position and rhythm, then export a clean chart. It's not magic auto-transcription — it's a focused tool that gets the busywork out of your way.
Desktop app, one-time purchase.
https://hannes-software.com/lowend-forge/
Learning a song by ear shouldn't require a cloud subscription just to slow it down.
Session Craft is a desktop practice workstation: split stems, loop the hard bar, drop the tempo without changing pitch (or shift pitch without changing tempo), follow a chord timeline, and export a backing track — all from your own local files.
Pay once, runs offline.
https://hannes-software.com/session-craft/
Dental Ark is live on Product Hunt today 🦷
Local-first dental clinic software for small clinics: patients, FDI tooth charting, appointments, billing, images, backups — no monthly cloud subscription.
https://www.producthunt.com/products/dental-ark?launch=dental-ark
Local-first dental clinic software for small clinics: patients, appointments, FDI tooth charting, treatment notes, images, billing, payments, PDF export, follow-ups, and manual backups without a monthly cloud subscription.
Fretboard Lab is live on Product Hunt today 🎸
Find playable guitar chord voicings across tunings, positions, spans, open strings, and Roman-numeral progressions.
https://www.producthunt.com/products/fretboard-lab-2?launch=fretboard-lab-2
Explore playable guitar chord voicings across tunings, positions, fret spans, open strings, and Roman-numeral progressions. Built for guitarists, teachers, and songwriters who need more than one static chord diagram.
New DEV article: USBPcap and usbmon debugging — what to collect before blaming firmware.
Enumeration, descriptors, setup packets, transfer types, and how to compare good vs bad host captures to find the real failure.
https://dev.to/hannes_wan/usbpcap-and-usbmon-debugging-what-to-collect-before-blaming-firmware-3kci
New DEV article: How to prepare a PCAP for vendor support without leaking the whole capture.
Redaction, time-window trimming, checksum repair, and what to include in a handoff note so the receiver knows what question to answer.
