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Re: Music Grid

#62

RE: audio on iOS Just a heads up as I've had the same issue with a (way more confusing and less fun) thing I done, you need to turn off the silent switch on iPhones to hear the audio. Maybe detect the device and include a prompt?

Ahh, thank you so much. I was about to report it as a bug! Now time to play!

Re: Music Grid

#66

Slightly OT. It seems like there is an uptick in music production-related posts on HN lately. Which is awesome. Has it always been like this and I'm just now noticing? Or, if it is a recent phenomenon, do we think it's because folks are trying to connect more with arts, in light of everything going on? Anyway, this is very cool and I'm happy to see it!

It might come and go, but I find it to be pretty consistent. There is, in my experience, a strong overlap between hackers/computer scientists and musicians; for one anecdotal example, Donald Knuth is an accomplished organ player.

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html

Re: Music Grid

#67

Slightly OT. It seems like there is an uptick in music production-related posts on HN lately. Which is awesome. Has it always been like this and I'm just now noticing? Or, if it is a recent phenomenon, do we think it's because folks are trying to connect more with arts, in light of everything going on? Anyway, this is very cool and I'm happy to see it!

The plural of anecdote is not data and all that but COVID resulted in me buying a midi keyboard and I’ve been learning Ableton live.

(And messing about with the idea of using a midi input device to control batch jobs)

Re: Music Grid

#69

This design exists in the form of the more complex Yamaha Tenori-on, which was featured by Four Tet in There Is Love In You - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M20ukzn_rsw It's also expensive, now 500 USD on eBay - so it's nice to see a version of the product getting put together on the web :)

I'm sure you and the creator know of this already, but the guy who designed the Tenori-on also made the Nintendo DS game Elektroplankton. It presents such wonderful ideas for messing about with music that I'm stunned there isn't a huge scene of people things like it online these days.
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