Show HN: Tones.fm – Make synth music • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by j4mie » Fri, Mar 09, 2018, 11:40 PM UTC

Very much like a Yamaha Tenori-On. Nice work.

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

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Post by raphlinus » Fri, Mar 09, 2018, 11:54 PM UTC

resource0x wrote: post #15

raphlinus wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Not sure exactly what you're asking, that sounds pretty much like what that is. See in particular https://github.com/google/music-synthesizer-for-android/blob...

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

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 12:13 AM UTC

kenning wrote: 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.

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

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Post by pouta » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 12:19 AM UTC

Such a soothing experience!

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

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Post by tjr225 » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 1:25 AM UTC

A lot of fun. I would add an editing mode where you can switch between patterns without playing them.

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

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Post by throwaway66666 » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 1:28 AM UTC

eat_veggies wrote: post #7

raphlinus wrote: post #3

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.

It looks like handwritten jquery. I beautified the javascript: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/23bff2f5006c675f9cff49f752...

This is pretty neat! Fatigued after so many "this vs that" framework talk nowadays, very refreshing to see someone just using what they feel comfortable with and building an all around awesome project.

Just honest high-quality craftmanship and lots of fun :) Props to the creator.

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

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Post by resource0x » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 2:00 AM UTC

raphlinus wrote: post #22

resource0x wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Not sure exactly what you're asking, that sounds pretty much like what that is. See in particular https://github.com/google/music-synthesizer-for-android/blob...

Thanks! I couldn't figure out that I need to look into jni. Not familiar with Android infrastructure, my bad.

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

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Post by chrisweekly » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 2:19 AM UTC

Bravo! Thank you for making this, and for sharing it. So cool.

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

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Post by michaelmior » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 3:50 AM UTC

Looks like it would be cool, but consistently crashes the tab for me in Firefox on Windows 10.

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

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Post by arsalanb » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 7:15 AM UTC

I don't know the first thing about music, but this was still fun to play around with. The front end is a work of art. Looks solid and robust.

I tried it on my iPhone (in Safari) it made a sort of clicking sound with every "beat" or whatever it's called when the line passes over the circles. Other than that, looks great even on iPhone.