I fiddle with creating sounds in JavaScript a bit, but I just went as far as creating sounds fx for a game (pretty simple ones). I want to try and work with it a little bit more in the future.
Great article, definitely inspiring.
Drum Synthesis in JavaScript
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#12Awesome 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
Time consuming, but fun no doubt :)
I've been wondering if machine learning or metaheuristics could be used to get close to an input sound. I've been toying with this idea using MIDI CC with a Rytm.
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#13Awesome 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…
Really depends on your end goal.
I've spent a lot of time synthesizing drums I could have sampled, but I'm a lot faster and more precise at synthesizing whatever I need now.
If you just want to make the air shake, a quick way is to turn on the radio :D
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#14This is cool. If the author is reading this: consider adding some sound files to your post?
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#15Wait, why is there no "play with it here" github.io page? This shouldn't require anyone to build anything just to play with it? O_o
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#16hey Nick, have you tried Faust?
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#17Awesome 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…
Really depends on your end goal. I've spent a lot of time synthesizing drums I could have sampled, but I'm a lot faster and more precise at synthesizing whatever I need now. If you just want to make the air shake, a quick way is to turn on the radio :D
The kick, I'm fine. Getting the 909 snare on the Rytm is impossible for me, and hitting the original Amen Break kit's snare on MODO Drum is proving difficult (and yes, I've brought the tempo back to the original bpm) but still not close :(
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#19This 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
Record an audio file, convert it to video with a static image, upload to YouTube.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Record an audio file, convert it to video with a static image, upload to YouTube.
You can embed Codepens with a play button too, which would be cooler as a demo