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Re: Show HN: Beats, a web-based drum machine

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Post by fallinditch »

Nice job! Added to my home screen.

Firefox on Android - seems to work perfectly.

Any plans to develop this further? I'm not sure how doable this is but I'd love to be able to program African polyrhythms on my phone.

I think the main dev challenges would be:

- add swing and humanization

- layering the polyrhythms on separate tracks

- adding different time signatures, e.g. 12/8 is common for African polyrhythms.

- allow independent cycle lengths per track

A good resource for further reading - https://djemberhythms.com/books/

Re: Show HN: Beats, a web-based drum machine

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Post by bicepjai »

bicepjai wrote: post #40

I really enjoyed playing around with this, thanks for sharing. You can tell a lot of care and effort went into the experience. I’m curious: did you use any AI tools while building it or was that all done manually?

Oh man, I can’t stop using this app. It’s been 2 hours

Re: Show HN: Beats, a web-based drum machine

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Post by turbotim »

This is nice, I'm similarly a fan of Teenage engineering and have been playing around with ToneJS and Sveltekit to make https://shantylab.com

It's been a really interesting way to understand the elements of putting together music for me. I started off thinking surely it can't be that hard to make a simple way of making music but as I added more and more functionality I found it tricky to keep the UI simple. I'm still plugging away and the challenge of chasing simplicity is what's keeping me going.

Re: Show HN: Beats, a web-based drum machine

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Post by kinduff »

turbotim wrote: post #44

This is nice, I'm similarly a fan of Teenage engineering and have been playing around with ToneJS and Sveltekit to make https://shantylab.com It's been a really interesting way to understand the elements of putting together music for me. I started off thinking surely it can't be that hard to make a simple way of making music but as I added more and more functionality I found it tricky to keep the UI simple. I'm still…

Wow! This is amazing! You went great lenghs to make it complete. I really like the layers, something that I would love to add.

Your sounds are very nice too, are you synthesizing them too?

Re: Show HN: Beats, a web-based drum machine

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Post by yochem »

Really nice, loved playing with it!

One small improvement: could you disable the "double tap to zoom" on mobile browsers? This happens often when you press multiple squares closeby. Should be one line of css:

    touch-action: manipulation

Re: Show HN: Beats, a web-based drum machine

#49

Post by turbotim »

kinduff wrote: post #47
turbotim wrote: post #44

This is nice, I'm similarly a fan of Teenage engineering and have been playing around with ToneJS and Sveltekit to make https://shantylab.com It's been a really interesting way to understand the elements of putting together music for me. I started off thinking surely it can't be that hard to make a simple way of making music but as I added more and more functionality I found it tricky to keep the UI simple. I'm still…

Wow! This is amazing! You went great lenghs to make it complete. I really like the layers, something that I would love to add. Your sounds are very nice too, are you synthesizing them too?

There’s some synth sounds and some samples, you can record your own samples in also and play them like an instrument. That part is loosely based on the KO2 which I have and love
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