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Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Post by make2 »

Nice job! and thanks for sharing..

Here are some suggestions / wishes:

- Can you add a decay slider to each channel? That shouldn't be hard. It could change the sound & balance of the set by a lot. - Also panning is very useful.. - The repeat every n bars is a very nice touch. Trig conditions are out of the question i guess. - A random button would be lots of fun and make users stick around more. It could have a percentage parameter, too. Could be used as a starting template each time you reload or revisit the page. - The sliders could be a bit wider, especially the one for tempo.

Do you make music yourself?

Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Post by throwme_123 »

berkcebi wrote: post #61
throwme_123 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How big are the patterns? Looks like the author implemented a server-side storage with tiny hash. Why not the data itself as base64? That would make it real serverless!

That's a good point! I did consider this but decided against it since the share URLs would be pretty long. Instead I went with a S3 based storage solution — still pretty simple, not managing any servers or databases manually.

Thanks! I may be biased but I like Unix composability principles :)

Unless you plan to forever update your credit card on AWS, it can be better to develop without cloud and use one or more url shorteners to share (socials do it anyway).

Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Post by kenfehling »

I really like the "1st of 2 bars", etc. options. It's a nice UI to make a more complex beat in a smaller space.

It'd be cool if there was some kind of "randomize" function to just make a random beat. Maybe not truly random, just something with the basic drums and maybe within some set of constraints.

Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Post by fat-chunk »

atentaten wrote: post #11

As someone who was into making electronic music back before Fruity Loops and Hammerhead—-a time when one coveted actual hardware, but was always searching and dreaming about software drum machines because they were cheaper or free, I always find it amazing that we can do this in the browser. I always love seeing cool projects like this come about.

Have you ever come across https://audiotool.com ?

It's a free, fully fledged DAW in the browser, they emulate the most iconic Roland devices like the 808, 909 and 303

Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Post by neumann »

fat-chunk wrote: post #107
atentaten wrote: post #11

As someone who was into making electronic music back before Fruity Loops and Hammerhead—-a time when one coveted actual hardware, but was always searching and dreaming about software drum machines because they were cheaper or free, I always find it amazing that we can do this in the browser. I always love seeing cool projects like this come about.

Have you ever come across https://audiotool.com ? It's a free, fully fledged DAW in the browser, they emulate the most iconic Roland devices like the 808, 909 and 303

How did I never come across this! What an achievement, there goes my evening.

Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Post by parabyl »

boredemployee wrote: post #51
parabyl wrote: post #40

A little detroit techno vibe? https://peel.fm/15f0762 This is really neat! the kick some sweet distortion when you put an accent on it and have it layered with some other samples. I've been using the Volca Drum recently and an idea from that which I imagine would be relatively simple to add to this would be a divide step option - allowing for double-time hats and the like. It would make a great addition to this fun l…

Nice! Talking about detroit and 808: https://youtu.be/R6pTNuBSqhw (the producer is from detroit, the track name is not)

Oof, so very dusty! Lovely track, thanks for the recommendation.
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