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Re: Music Grid

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Post by flak48 »

palimpsests wrote: post #123
wwwwewwww wrote: post #118

Can someone with knowledge of music theory explain how it works? Meaning, how come if I close my eyes and place some random tiles, it still come out sounding OK. But not so if I bang random keys on a piano.

The notes that this app is playing, from lowest to highest, are: B3 C#4 F#4 G#4 C#5 D#5 E5 G#6 B6 C#7 F#8 G#8 These notes are all diatonic, e.g. from the same key (unlike all the keys on a piano). That key is C# relative minor (or E major). In modal language, this is the C# Aeolian (or, when played from E to E, Ionian mode): C# D# E F# G# A B C# If you play notes restricted to a single key, it will come out sounding…

Same as playing only the white keys right? (C major/ A minor)

Re: Music Grid

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Post by rodw »

gfxgirl wrote: post #109

I'm not trying to be cynical but what is special about this verses that 1000s of similar sites that came before? Here's one of google's https://www.google.com/logos/2017/fischinger/fischinger17.ht... Here's Ableton's https://learningmusic.ableton.com/ Is there something special about this one?

Why the Rifleman's Creed, of course: "There are many like it, but this one is mine."

(To be clear, I am not the creator here.)

There are many things like this, but for what it is worth, this is a pretty well executed one: simple to use, elegant UX, produces pleasing tones even when used inexpertly.

Also the fact that this one expands to a large number of steps is somewhat unique I think. (BTW it seems odd to me that the lower bound on the number of steps is 10 rather than the conventional 8.)

I too have seen (and played with) a large number of step-sequencer things and literally have three of them sitting next to me on my desk while I type this.

But I still enjoyed playing with this one for a little while.

I'm sure the OP learned something from this exercise, and there could be people for whom this is their first/best experience with a simple step sequencer, so it may "unlock" something for someone. But I think that's unnecessary "gravy" in this case. Sometimes the "joy" of creating is reason enough to do it. I may never visit Music Grid again but I'm glad OP shared it.

Re: Music Grid

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Post by maroonblazer »

sudosteph wrote: post #70

This is awesome. I've been playing around with svelte + webaudio myself lately, it's a really fun combo in case anyone here is wondering. My song: https://music-grid.surge.sh/#0-1024-128-1024-128-1056-128-10...

What resources have you found helpful for learning/playing with webaudio?

I like your song!

Re: Music Grid

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Post by glenneroo »

mellowdream wrote: post #41

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 :)

> Tenori-on

There is also a very lovely spiritual successor for VR called Soundstage VR: https://github.com/googlearchive/soundstagevr

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