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A modern alternative to WinIsd
Resonate is a currently "shitty" vibe coded spike based on the functionality offer by WinIsd.
WinIsd has been abandoned and is closed source so there is no opportunity to move it forward.
The intention of Resonate is to form a collaboration of interested parties to build a modern alternative to WinIsd.
The technical goals include compatibility with WinIsd file formats (and other) and to create a modern intuitive tool that address the numerous complaints on the internet about the WinIsd tool.
The long term goal of Resonate are to build something open source using modern tech and with proper tests and architecture so that it doesn't rot when I drop dead or lose interest, ie to make this not shitty.
I am looking for a band of the willing to move this thing forward.
Please volunteer your time with ideas and feedback and pull requests for improving it.
I am a software engineer with 40 years of experience and would like to the right thing here and have a bit of fun at the same time.
My bio, CV and all my Hackaday projects can be found on my personal page https://johnlon.github.io/
But I need your help; that's the whole point!
WinISD's been dead since 2016. Basta, Unibox, the old spreadsheets — all dead, fragmented, Windows-only.
And now I've noticed several of us (including me below) independently building web-based replacements ([1], [2], [3] — and I was about to start a fourth).
That's the trap.
A pile of closed-source, competing, solo projects that'll each probably get abandoned in a year unless they can be put behind a paywall, is just the same graveyard with a fresh coat of paint.
The speaker world doesn't need more legacy apps — it needs one with a future: a community-owned simulator that won't die when its author loses interest. Why would I want to invest my time adding devices to the database of a closed tool, when we could be building one open catalog of drivers that outlives our current 5 min attention span?
So: browser-based, runs anywhere, MIT licensed, with a shared driver database so we're not all re-keying the same Thiele/Small params into private files forever. Validated physics, not vibes (or at least, not only vibes).
I'd rather pull people together and build something cool together.
My effort is this Resonate: https://johnlon.github.io/resonate/
This shitty vibe coded tool took me a few hours to put together last night and it's principal goal is to foster this conversation and pull people together. If you want to contribute then be a committee to it , or come up with a better approach and I will delete the entire repo.
If you want to help then chat about it here and or raise fesutr requests and feedback in the GitHub issues... https://github.com/Johnlon/resonate/issues
If you want to be a committer then
I am happy to kill Resonate if someone with a more advanced tool is willing to opensource it and all it's underlying data. That seems the obvious better approach, but ..
If not then ....
I'm looking for:
- Users - To direct an dev efforts
- Collaborators — technical experts, ideas people, coders who'd genuinely co-own it
- Testers + driver-data people — push real designs through it, help seed an open T/S library
- anyone who just wants this to exist
Is there appetite to actually unite on this? Who's in?
PS I'm waiting on responses from Cristian of LoudspeakerDB and I hacve reached out to linear team again.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/diyaudio/comments/1snqre1/new_features_for_web_based_winisd_app/
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/diyaudio/comments/1rjcvfq/feedback_requested_i_built_a_webbased_winisd/
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/CarAV/comments/1rkngtx/00_enclosure_simulator_like_winisd_but_in_the/