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Drum Synthesis in JavaScript

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Re: Drum Synthesis in JavaScript

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Post by leviathant »

fab1an wrote: post #2

This is cool. If the author is reading this: consider adding some sound files to your post?

Not the author, but here's something I put together about 8 years ago using the web audio API to synthesize analog drum sounds, specifically modeled from the Boss DR-110: https://www.bitrotten.com/dr110/webaudio/

(See also https://github.com/leviathant/BossDR110/tree/feature/synthes...)

Re: Drum Synthesis in JavaScript

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Post by alfiedotwtf »

Awesome stuff!

Drum synthesis is one of those rabbit holes where you can obsess for a long time, when instead you can find good enough sounds quickly and should probably just use them!

I wonder how many collective hours people have burned in trying to synthesize the 909. Here's one cool video of getting it in Reaktor (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A_AWH3SgM84)... way cool as a project, but the ROI if everyone did it lol.

I've been using all my spare hours the past week spinning on trying to synthesis the snare used in the original Amen Break using Modo Drum to no avail. Like I said... Rabbit hole and I should probably just use samples like everyone else :(

Re: Drum Synthesis in JavaScript

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Post by trypwire »

fab1an wrote: post #2

This is cool. If the author is reading this: consider adding some sound files to your post?

Thanks, and yes I totally agree (OP here). I looked into it for a brief minute: I'm using Ghost Blog to host my articles and I didn't see an easy way to attach the media there directly. The available options seemed to involve embedding a Souncloud link or so, which was enough to deter me at the time.

If anyone has ideas for simple audio clip sharing in a Ghost blog, I'd love to hear

Re: Drum Synthesis in JavaScript

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Post by trypwire »

alfiedotwtf wrote: post #5

Awesome stuff! Drum synthesis is one of those rabbit holes where you can obsess for a long time, when instead you can find good enough sounds quickly and should probably just use them! I wonder how many collective hours people have burned in trying to synthesize the 909. Here's one cool video of getting it in Reaktor ( https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A_AWH3SgM84 )... way cool as a project, but the ROI if everyone did i…

Thanks! Oh yea, such a rabbit hole.

I started trying to synthesize a snare as part of this library and blog post and got lost in the weeds so quickly. I ended up skipping it for now but will surely come back to it eventually

Re: Drum Synthesis in JavaScript

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Post by trypwire »

leviathant wrote: post #3
fab1an wrote: post #2

This is cool. If the author is reading this: consider adding some sound files to your post?

Not the author, but here's something I put together about 8 years ago using the web audio API to synthesize analog drum sounds, specifically modeled from the Boss DR-110: https://www.bitrotten.com/dr110/webaudio/ (See also https://github.com/leviathant/BossDR110/tree/feature/synthes... )

Awesome! Thanks for sharing

Re: Drum Synthesis in JavaScript

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Post by atum47 »

leviathant wrote: post #3
fab1an wrote: post #2

This is cool. If the author is reading this: consider adding some sound files to your post?

Not the author, but here's something I put together about 8 years ago using the web audio API to synthesize analog drum sounds, specifically modeled from the Boss DR-110: https://www.bitrotten.com/dr110/webaudio/ (See also https://github.com/leviathant/BossDR110/tree/feature/synthes... )

This looks great, I'm definitely going to try it again when I'm on the desktop
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