Fun little tool, I wish it could export a midi file with the pattern.
Here's some techno :) https://draw.audio/s/lifgm2yl3
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#52Awesome 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.
The reason it sounds good is because you can't go outside the selected scale so all notes will automatically be in tune. It's like one of those handpans that sound amazing even if you just randomly hit it.
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#53Nice. 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
This is fun, but would be even better if you could randomly seed it or have some starting default. Cool quick demo!
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#54Nice 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.
Tempo too seems to be hard to control at the low end of the range. Great work here
Re: Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API
#55Nice. 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
This is fun, but would be even better if you could randomly seed it or have some starting default. Cool quick demo!
Good idea, I made some improvements like that.
https://matthewbilyeu.com/tone-of-life.html?saved=AAAAAAAACB...
Re: Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API
#56Is the "bounce back and forth mode" supposed to be inconsistent when bouncing off each edge? Bouncing one way appears to add an extra note, when the pattern is resetting.
Example: https://draw.audio/s/z2gcctra8
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#57Really nice work! Thanks for sharing this. Odd time signatures would be a nice addition. Thanks again!
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#58This is great work and a really nice take on the concept. As someone else said, midi output would be really cool as this is a great just doodley scratchpad but once you have something great it'd be awesome to build on it.
Re: Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API
#59Is the "bounce back and forth mode" supposed to be inconsistent when bouncing off each edge? Bouncing one way appears to add an extra note, when the pattern is resetting. Example: https://draw.audio/s/z2gcctra8
You're right! It's a bug and I'll fix it :)
Re: Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API
#60This is great work and a really nice take on the concept. As someone else said, midi output would be really cool as this is a great just doodley scratchpad but once you have something great it'd be awesome to build on it.
A midi export is on the to-do list. Thanks for the input!