Nice. The only thing I don't like about it is that its browser based, because - as a musician with a room full of hardware - its hard to get over the conclusion that browser-based music tools are simply not ready for production - i.e. I would never use this on stage or in the studio. Cute experiment though...
Show HN: Web DSP audio editor
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#12(Chrome only)
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#13This is great! I especially like that you've included a share mechanism. I built an audio dsp playground before, but didn't spend enough time on it to provide that. Are you going to add a discovery page to browse people's creations?
Thanks! It's definitely a possibility, but first I would like to see how people use it. Not sure if it should be an hand picked mechanism (easy but time expensive) or an automatic one - people tag their creations, possibly vote them, and the most popular are shown (harder but once it's there it just works on its own)
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#14Looks great!
Any chance of adding a piano roll for playing short melodies(and perhaps chords with the proper processor)?
Re: Show HN: Web DSP audio editor
#15Nice. The only thing I don't like about it is that its browser based, because - as a musician with a room full of hardware - its hard to get over the conclusion that browser-based music tools are simply not ready for production - i.e. I would never use this on stage or in the studio. Cute experiment though...
I understand your point of view, although there are people I know who managed to run Web Audio API plugins as VSTs :)
This particular app is meant more as a playground / sketch / sharing tool for DSP techniques, and imho it makes sense for it to be on the most immediately accessible platform, the Web.
However, it's possible to add Faust or C support to it in the future (using WebAssembly), a feature which will allow exporting your snippets directly to executable / VST.
Re: Show HN: Web DSP audio editor
#16Looks great! Any chance of adding a piano roll for playing short melodies(and perhaps chords with the proper processor)?
Might be! I would also like to add MIDI files drag and drop, so that you can "play" your pre-made MIDIs. There are a lot of features I would like to add, and more support for MIDI is one of them.
Re: Show HN: Web DSP audio editor
#17(Chrome only)
For now, yes. But, since the app is based on a standard spec, other browser will hopefully support Web Audio Worklets soon.
> — Please note that the app runs only on Chrome > v66, for
> now, because Chrome is the only browser implementing the
> Audio Worklet[1] spec. Other browser will follow suit
> (hopefully) soon
[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/12/audio-work...
Re: Show HN: Web DSP audio editor
#18(Chrome only)
Yeah, 'It seems you're trying to run the editor with an old or unsupported browser' is kinda odd given it just runs on Chrome...
Re: Show HN: Web DSP audio editor
#19(Chrome only)
Yeah, 'It seems you're trying to run the editor with an old or unsupported browser' is kinda odd given it just runs on Chrome...
As soon as browser support the standard, the message will be shown less and less. Chrome was an early adopter, but Audio Worklets are part of a W3C working draft, which is the de facto standard for web audio:
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, 'It seems you're trying to run the editor with an old or unsupported browser' is kinda odd given it just runs on Chrome...
As soon as browser support the standard, the message will be shown less and less. Chrome was an early adopter, but Audio Worklets are part of a W3C working draft, which is the de facto standard for web audio: https://www.w3.org/TR/webaudio/
Qualifying browsers that don't follow an early adopter in implementing a working draft of being "old" is kind of odd and disparaging. A simple message like "Sadly your browser does not seem to support spec foo yet, but you can try one of those: browser X v>42, Y, Z".