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The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

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Re: The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

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This is actually enjoyable, I could imagine working with this in the background. Great work! edit: You can't actually hide the window in Safari, as it goes to like 10 BPM. Is it a power saving feature or what?

Browsers reduce the number of timed events in background tabs and windows, and it makes sense that the webapp relies on timers to trigger the changes.

Re: The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only tangentially related: http://di.fm stream many flavours of electronic music, and DJ sets, I've been a paying customer on and off for over a decade. Also check out http://soma.fm

I will also vouch for and throw my 2¢ in for DI.fm. I've been subscribed since 2014 and while I have my qualms (namely a few stations that haven't seen a playlist change since I signed up, or their somewhat recent attempt to switch to a playlist-based setup instead of internet radio), it's a top-notch service that continues to please.

I rarely visit their website as they allow you to save your favourite stations as a play list for your preferred media player.

Will have to check it out, thanks for the heads up.

Are you aware of their other sites, https://www.jazzradio.com/ and https://www.rockradio.com/

Your di.fm subscription gives you member access to those two as well, last time I checked.

Re: The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

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This generates much better patterns than any other music web project I've tried. Awesome work.

If you had no music experience, snuck into a club, impersonated a DJ, and just pressed play on this, I think even without touching it, no one would notice anything's amiss. If you messed around with it occasionally, you'd probably get hired back. (And that's a compliment to the app; definitely not a diss of acid techno.)

Re: The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

#46

This generates much better patterns than any other music web project I've tried. Awesome work. If you had no music experience, snuck into a club, impersonated a DJ, and just pressed play on this, I think even without touching it, no one would notice anything's amiss. If you messed around with it occasionally, you'd probably get hired back. (And that's a compliment to the app; definitely not a diss of acid techno.)

> snuck into a club, impersonated a DJ, and just pressed play on this, I think even without touching it, no one would notice anything's amiss.

That very much depends on the club.

Re: The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

#47
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Congratulations, this might be the single coolest web project I've ever seen on this site Add other types of sound (house, trance, etc.) and I will gladly pay a monthly fee to access it

Only tangentially related: http://di.fm stream many flavours of electronic music, and DJ sets, I've been a paying customer on and off for over a decade. Also check out http://soma.fm

another one up for di.fm. Just absolutely great quality and fidelity and a good selection of stuff.

Re: The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

#48

This generates much better patterns than any other music web project I've tried. Awesome work. If you had no music experience, snuck into a club, impersonated a DJ, and just pressed play on this, I think even without touching it, no one would notice anything's amiss. If you messed around with it occasionally, you'd probably get hired back. (And that's a compliment to the app; definitely not a diss of acid techno.)

Not really into this type of music, but I'd notice, it sounds pretty average.

It's a cool project and concept, but people in the know would notice.

Re: The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

#49

This generates much better patterns than any other music web project I've tried. Awesome work. If you had no music experience, snuck into a club, impersonated a DJ, and just pressed play on this, I think even without touching it, no one would notice anything's amiss. If you messed around with it occasionally, you'd probably get hired back. (And that's a compliment to the app; definitely not a diss of acid techno.)

no one would notice anything's amiss

I doubt it. Perhaps you were lucky with the piece you listened to, but I checked it for 5 minutes and the off-beat things it generates are pretty much unheard of in this genre. Not that there's no off-beat produced by humans, but it doesn't sound anything like this. Simply because what the machine is doing here brakes the rhythm too much, making it harder to dance on, and after all that's what this music is for.

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