Patatap: Create musical forms with your keyboard

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Post by newcoders » Sat, Sep 26, 2020, 5:48 PM UTC

Patatap: Create musical forms with your keyboard
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Re: Patatap: Create musical forms with your keyboard

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Post by mathnmusic » Sat, Sep 26, 2020, 6:46 PM UTC

Code from main.js: https://www.patatap.com/src/main.js

Enjoyed playing with it. It would be nice to see some WebMIDI support so it can be triggered with a MIDI keyboard.

On the same topic, I found Google's Oboe project really interesting. It's a C++ library for audio that works on both Chrome (via WASM) and Android (with AAudio). This talk from Google I/O 2019 gave a demo/walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GaD0RCp-Q0

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Post by ellis0n » Sat, Sep 26, 2020, 7:08 PM UTC

Finally, programmers will be able to show non-technical people how programs are created, haha

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Post by adzm » Sat, Sep 26, 2020, 7:34 PM UTC

In a similar vein, create your own Hatsune Miku style music https://aidn.jp/mikutap/

Re: Patatap: Create musical forms with your keyboard

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Post by single_source » Sat, Sep 26, 2020, 7:37 PM UTC

it's too bad you can't loop things together

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Post by scribu » Sat, Sep 26, 2020, 7:52 PM UTC

adzm wrote: post #4

In a similar vein, create your own Hatsune Miku style music https://aidn.jp/mikutap/

That's so fun!

Having a background rhythm makes it a lot easier to create a decent groove.

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Post by foxdev » Sat, Sep 26, 2020, 8:51 PM UTC

Needs a seizure warning. Other than that, it's a lot of fun.

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Post by ipsum2 » Sat, Sep 26, 2020, 9:57 PM UTC

scribu wrote: post #6

adzm wrote: post #4

In a similar vein, create your own Hatsune Miku style music https://aidn.jp/mikutap/

That's so fun! Having a background rhythm makes it a lot easier to create a decent groove.

Also, the rhythm is quantized you can't play 'off the beat'.

Re: Patatap: Create musical forms with your keyboard

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Post by eudes_ochoa » Sun, Sep 27, 2020, 12:24 AM UTC

single_source wrote: post #5

it's too bad you can't loop things together

I hacked a silly sequencer for it some time ago. You can give it a try by following the instructions here:

https://gist.github.com/eudes/03e840d5afe408dfb866efe9548551...

And here's a demo video: https://twitter.com/eudes/status/1283161726192680967?s=19

Re: Patatap: Create musical forms with your keyboard

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Post by interestica » Sun, Sep 27, 2020, 5:24 PM UTC

I use this (and the sister web app typeatap) with my pre-school niece. She loves composing music from keyboard letters and has really learned where the letters are on a qwerty keyboard faster than any other option for someone that age. There is seriously some untapped educational potential here. Or maybe it's just forming bad habits.