I'll take a second to shamelessly plug my library TinyMusic for those of you who might want similar-ish functionality but aren't familiar with or don't like React https://github.com/kevincennis/TinyMusic
holy mackerel, this lib is dope.
Make Dope Beats with ReactJS
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Re: Make Dope Beats with ReactJS
#42There's a whole subgenre of programming called algorave (algorithmic rave) which is oriented around building music using functional/declarative paradigms.
It's a super cool creative branch of prog research, much of it involving live programming, funky editors/IDEs (Ixi Lang is the macOS rich text editor, where on certain key combos its content is piped and the colours of the editor changed live -- bit of a hack and super cool).
Check some out -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAq4BAbvRS4
Re: Make Dope Beats with ReactJS
#43I can relate to the author of this article. I taught myself JavaScript in parallel with the Web Audio API around 2012.
Warning, shameless plug: Since there are no books that teach sound artists how to program using JavaScript I decided to write one based on the process I went through.
It is available for pre order if anyone is interested:
https://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Sound-Artists-Learn-Audio/...
Re: Make Dope Beats with ReactJS
#44It would be awesome to see an interactive playground for this, where people can just mess around with simple examples. I wonder if it would be simple enough to have a codepen/jsfiddle of this.
Re: Make Dope Beats with ReactJS
#45I can relate to the author of this article. I taught myself JavaScript in parallel with the Web Audio API around 2012. Warning, shameless plug: Since there are no books that teach sound artists how to program using JavaScript I decided to write one based on the process I went through. It is available for pre order if anyone is interested: https://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Sound-Artists-Learn-Audio/...
As someone currently using (aka fighting) the web audio API, there's definitely a market for better, clearer information out there, but I'm curious how successful targeting a such a niche market has been?
Re: Make Dope Beats with ReactJS
#46I can relate to the author of this article. I taught myself JavaScript in parallel with the Web Audio API around 2012. Warning, shameless plug: Since there are no books that teach sound artists how to program using JavaScript I decided to write one based on the process I went through. It is available for pre order if anyone is interested: https://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Sound-Artists-Learn-Audio/...
As someone currently using (aka fighting) the web audio API, there's definitely a market for better, clearer information out there, but I'm curious how successful targeting a such a niche market has been?
The book I wrote is a "how to program" book that uses JavaScript coupled with the Web Audio API as a tool to appeal to sound artists. It is not a book to teach those who already know how to program the Web Audio API. When I've gone on Amazon to look at beginner programming books I've found that most "themed" books are directed to those who want to learn how to build websites, mobile apps or games - but none are directed to DJ's, electronic musicians, sound artists etc. I wrote a book that does just that, but as it stands I have no idea if it will sell.
Re: Make Dope Beats with ReactJS
#47This is barely react. It's a container element that does all the heavy lifting with some children that are used as data stores. Would be cleaner and nicer to just use JSON and stop pretending it's React.