Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API

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Post by msla » Fri, Nov 08, 2024, 3:58 AM UTC

A surprisingly simple pattern can give a pleasing melody:

Re: Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API

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Post by StreamGobbler » Fri, Nov 08, 2024, 4:04 AM UTC

saint_yossarian wrote: post #20

Nice work! You should tune the control sensitivities though, like with the filter cutoffs the usable range is concentrated in a few pixels on the left. I guess synths usually use some kind of logarithmic scales?

Good observation! You're absolutely right. I need to make a few of the sliders non-linear/logarithmic. I wouldn't want to simply decrease the range of the lowpass filter for example and lose the subtle higher frequencies. Thanks for the input.

Re: Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API

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Post by ukuina » Fri, Nov 08, 2024, 4:19 AM UTC

Zero to Mass Effect in three seconds!

Re: Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API

#24

Post by mbil » Fri, Nov 08, 2024, 4:21 AM UTC

Nice. This made me think of Conway's Game of Life so I made a little mashup of a tone matrix with GoL. https://matthewbilyeu.com/tone-of-life.html

Re: Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API

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Post by yashness » Fri, Nov 08, 2024, 4:37 AM UTC

Nice one! Can it support selecting area & moving it around?

Re: Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API

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Post by StreamGobbler » Fri, Nov 08, 2024, 4:42 AM UTC

yashness wrote: post #25

Nice one! Can it support selecting area & moving it around?

That would be nice to have! For now, you can only move all notes together under the EDIT menu.

Re: Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API

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Post by ryoshu » Fri, Nov 08, 2024, 4:47 AM UTC

Love. Love. Love this. Thank you.

Re: Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API

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Post by wayoverthecloud » Fri, Nov 08, 2024, 4:48 AM UTC

Awesome work! I don't have knowledge on music but I like if something makes good sound without knowing the theory behind it, I like it.

It works seamlessly on an old beaten Android phone too. I tried recreating Minecraft music(like Taswell) but couldn't do it well. Wondering if it's at all possible on this.

Re: Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API

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Post by StreamGobbler » Fri, Nov 08, 2024, 5:04 AM UTC

wayoverthecloud wrote: post #28

Awesome work! I don't have knowledge on music but I like if something makes good sound without knowing the theory behind it, I like it. It works seamlessly on an old beaten Android phone too. I tried recreating Minecraft music(like Taswell) but couldn't do it well. Wondering if it's at all possible on this.

I just listened to Taswell for the first time. Great track! About recreating the melody, I don't think it would be possible because draw.audio doesn't have variable note lengths currently. Maybe that would be a nice addition in the future. Thanks for checking it out!

Re: Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API

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Post by tertle950 » Fri, Nov 08, 2024, 5:06 AM UTC

My favorite use of this toy is making something for one scale, and changing the scale. I end up getting these unique ... I'll call them "harmonic textures" each time, even though they're using the same "note pixel" layout. Very intuitive way to experiment with music, and I guess you can make art with it too.

Flower Garden: https://draw.audio/s/hngnldoov

I'm not a fantastic artist, admittedly. And it doesn't help when you're trying to balance that with music! But this is supposed to be a grassy flower garden.