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Re: Show HN: Tones.fm – Make synth music

#11

I'd love to hear more about what technology was used to make this. I actually have a web port of my DX7 emulator, but I don't promote it much. I've also been experimenting more recently with a Rust code base for synthesis and am considering picking that up again.

The JS source is pretty readable; looks hand-coded and lightly minified rather than targeted by some other language, a little help from jQuery and jQuery UI.

Re: Show HN: Tones.fm – Make synth music

#12
I love these kinds of grid step sequencers and have had an obsession with them since I saw a Monome as a teenager. I tried to make my own capacitive touch hardware once that could work as one. Eventually I just settled on writing a MIDI Node.js one which works with a Novation Launchpad [1].

This one is really well done and gives me some ideas. Would be cool if it took advantage of bigger screens.

[1]: https://github.com/kasbah/launch-step

Re: Show HN: Tones.fm – Make synth music

#14
This is pretty incredible, i love playing with single tone things like this and this is a particularly nice one. It's also fascinating to see how the magic almost completely goes away when i switch to a major key

nice ageisopolis track in there too

Slight nitpick, the sound clips if there's too much going on at once.

Re: Show HN: Tones.fm – Make synth music

#15
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mind sharing your dx7 port? I'd love to check it out!

Sure, it's https://github.com/google/music-synthesizer-for-android . You probably want the "webaudio" branch.

Would it be difficult to make a javascript module out of this and expose noteOn and noteOff so it can be used in web midi application?

Re: Show HN: Tones.fm – Make synth music

#17
post #14

This is pretty incredible, i love playing with single tone things like this and this is a particularly nice one. It's also fascinating to see how the magic almost completely goes away when i switch to a major key nice ageisopolis track in there too Slight nitpick, the sound clips if there's too much going on at once.

having done some stuff with webaudio api I doubt there's much can be done about this right now.

Re: Show HN: Tones.fm – Make synth music

#18
FYI: There's a bug in the reverb processing; if you listen to the "Ambient" preset for long enough the sound will start clipping in and out and eventually disappear altogether. As soon as I bring Reverb->Amount above zero, I get some nasty quantization noise (mostly in the right signal) and left signal pops in and out with some nasty noise around it.
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