This is really, really impressive. Cool range of sounds. Have you thought about attaching a user-friendly, knobby interface to the modules? I could see it as a really easy way for non-programming musicians to learn how to use this and other music generation systems like it.
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#32This is really, really impressive. Cool range of sounds. Have you thought about attaching a user-friendly, knobby interface to the modules? I could see it as a really easy way for non-programming musicians to learn how to use this and other music generation systems like it.
Thanks! That's a good idea, I have it planned for a next milestone as it is not one of the immediate priorities.
Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web
#33It goes into loop when I want to switch a file
"You've made some edits!"
Also
yntaxError: Unexpected token * at Function (native) at t (blob:http%3A//wavepot.com/576aa761-8f7c-4918-b4e7-8bdd7c77ff39:2:16401) at Function. (blob:http%3A//wavepot.com/576aa761-8f7c-4918-b4e7-8bdd7c77ff39:2:16779) at Function.i.emit (blob:http%3A//wavepot.com/576aa761-8f7c-4918-b4e7-8bdd7c77ff39:1:2656) at DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope.i.isMaster.self.onmessage (blob:http%3A//wavepot.com/576aa761-8f7c-4918-b4e7-8bdd7c77ff39:2:12723)
Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web
#34This isn't really a DAW. For those unfamiliar, a DAW is a fully-featured music creation environment including sound design, composition, recording, arrangement and mixing in one interface. Examples include logic, cubase and ableton. While I suppose this does allow for all of those things, as much as any programming language with access to an audio API does, this would be better described as a web-based DSP livecoding…
In my head, a DAW is exactly what it says. A workstation for digital audio. That said, this has the potential to evolve to something more similar to existing professional DAWs and maybe even surpass them.
I'm glad you like it. The sound is generated purely by a JavaScript function returning sample values that are then handled by the Web Audio API and buffered. That's how you hear sound.
On edit: It's really easy to remix tracks that way, even small changes to values yield quite different results. It's fun!
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#35That was fun. Here is my detuned remix of "on the verge tech mix" https://gist.github.com/jchris/04585454570853297974
Awesome!
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#36Wavepot team: really awesome stuff! love it. At Bandhub ( http://bandhub.us ) we are looking for ways to integrate programmed music into our web DAW. If you guys are up for a collaboration or want to discuss ideas, ping me osi (at) getbandhub (dot) com
Cool site. You need more genre categories however; Synth and/or Electronic would be a good start since you are missing anything along those lines. Probably a EDM category as well otherwise that's what either electronic and/or synth will end up being.
Also, Find Musicians doesn't seem to be working, at least not in Chrome on osx.
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#37This isn't really a DAW. For those unfamiliar, a DAW is a fully-featured music creation environment including sound design, composition, recording, arrangement and mixing in one interface. Examples include logic, cubase and ableton. While I suppose this does allow for all of those things, as much as any programming language with access to an audio API does, this would be better described as a web-based DSP livecoding…
It seems their goal is to make a full-fledged DAW in the browser, but they are not there yet (and far from it from what I can tell). How they would be able to fund all that for $2k is beyond me. That said, it's a really clever idea to have all the source editable, since js is an interpreted language anyway. One can imagine a future where the community not only shares songs and sounds, but the DSP units themselves. Un…
Realtime audio DSP seems like about the last thing that in-browser JavaScript was designed to do well.
Janky audio is unnacceptable in a way that janky visuals aren't. It totally kills the experience.
Without very strong guarantees about GC latency and thread scheduling that are neither available nor on the horizon for in-browser js, it won't work for anything beyond fun hacks.
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#38Cool! Reminds me of ChucK[1].
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#39I could easily see this become the future of music production. Lovely UI too.
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#40A scene has sprung up around music based on algorithms, called Algorave http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorave Vice did an article on the subject a few months back which gives an overview of the scene (from a layman's view) http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/algorave-is-the-future-of-dan...
This is really, really interesting.