Sampulator.com – make and record beats with your keyboard • Hacker News Board

meowface wrote: post #25

This is really awesome. The UI and UX are pretty much perfect. Some suggestions for future features: - Easier way of doing layering - Easy way to swap out the instruments would also be cool. - An open source, self-hostable version would also be nice.

thank you. library of instruments is in the works

Re: Sampulator.com – make and record beats with your keyboard

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Post by meowface » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 7:12 AM UTC

faceyspacey wrote: post #20

faceyspacey wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cycle.js would make for the perfect view framework for this giving the streaming nature of loops and observing new hits added to the grid: http://cycle.js.org We should use Meteor, RethinkDB or ClojureScript + Om Next + Datomic for realtime subscriptions and syncing of collaborating users. ...hows midi support looking these days? Is it fully functional in Chrome?

also, i think the real opportunity here lies in making it open source and making it all programmable. so literally you can program and enhance the damn thing as you use it--at least be able to one-click import extensions from NPM and github. see what im saying. given how many people know javascript, and how often programmers also have musical interests, this could be big. it should be a codeable music creation platfo…

What you're describing already kind of exists with Overtone (Clojure): http://overtone.github.io/

Re: Sampulator.com – make and record beats with your keyboard

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Post by tbabb » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 7:23 AM UTC

madlynormal wrote: post #16

vinceguidry wrote: post #6

Very cool! Here's what I came up with. http://sampulator.com/vguidry3/smooth-operator Edit: turn the metronome off by clicking on it, that two circles that alternately light up.

I'm loving this, here's my take. http://sampulator.com/cryptojuice/slowjam

And mine: http://sampulator.com/tr_babb/blackwater

Re: Sampulator.com – make and record beats with your keyboard

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Post by skndr » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 7:23 AM UTC

I'm really enjoying this. Great set of default samples, it seems to limit the paradox of choice.

I also can't resist sharing mine:

http://sampulator.com/skandermz/cruisin

Re: Sampulator.com – make and record beats with your keyboard

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Post by meowface » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 7:32 AM UTC

stevespaced wrote: post #26

meowface wrote: post #25

This is really awesome. The UI and UX are pretty much perfect. Some suggestions for future features: - Easier way of doing layering - Easy way to swap out the instruments would also be cool. - An open source, self-hostable version would also be nice.

thank you. library of instruments is in the works

Also, a keyboard shortcut to delete/reset the current loop (if I made a mistake early on) would be cool, too.