Call me old fashioned but I prefer chill music that was hand crafted by a DJ blending samples from wide influences as in the Buddha Bar or Cafe Del Mar collections. I am afraid all these LoFi channels and Spotify Focus playlists songs are in reality just procedurally generated by them under some made up lables so in reality no artists are actually paid for the stream and the money (what little there is anymore) goes from their right pocket to their left pocket. Claud Challe and DJ Ravin would probably not happen in the modern streaming age.
Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
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Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
#12This is really good! Congrats! I make algorithmic (infinite) music in a DAW (Reaper) and have been thinking about porting some of it to the browser, but didn't actually do anything about it :-( Can you describe the architecture a little? Are you using the Web Audio API for the instruments (and timing)? Are tracks static/looping, or dynamic (created on the fly based on random parameters)?
Yeah sure - you're right, it's using a lib built on top of the Web Audio API called Tone Js. This handles scheduling and some instruments, but the sounds themselves are mostly samples which I record myself from VSTs, then do things in the browser such as filter modulation so that they sound different over time. When a track loads for you, that's the samples being loaded in from cloud storage. As for static vs dynamic…
Yeah thanks, it does! I use Tone.js also.
(Are "tracks" simple MIDI files or some combination of JSON/JS?)
Anyway, nice work! ;-)
Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
#13Call me old fashioned but I prefer chill music that was hand crafted by a DJ blending samples from wide influences as in the Buddha Bar or Cafe Del Mar collections. I am afraid all these LoFi channels and Spotify Focus playlists songs are in reality just procedurally generated by them under some made up lables so in reality no artists are actually paid for the stream and the money (what little there is anymore) goes…
This is quite irrelevant to the discussion. To the best of our knowledge, the OP made the tracks and programmed the sounds; if any artist should be paid it's them, not some DJ or samples maker in fashion at the Buddha Bar.
Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah sure - you're right, it's using a lib built on top of the Web Audio API called Tone Js. This handles scheduling and some instruments, but the sounds themselves are mostly samples which I record myself from VSTs, then do things in the browser such as filter modulation so that they sound different over time. When a track loads for you, that's the samples being loaded in from cloud storage. As for static vs dynamic…
Yeah thanks, it does! I use Tone.js also. (Are "tracks" simple MIDI files or some combination of JSON/JS?) Anyway, nice work! ;-)
Each track is it's own JS file! With a folder of corresponding samples, which the JS file pieces together as I mentioned before. There's no MIDI, it's all done with the Tone.js scheduler. :)
Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
#15Cool. As a user of such things. I like to go to youtube and fire up a "10 hour beat", did not see anything in that genre.
Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
#16I don't get it.
I love ambient tunes and listen to them for 1-10 hours a day while doing stuff. Any time I need to focus (even when writing an email) I'll throw on my favorite ambient music.
How is this any different? Why would I get a "premium" account for some random website when there's an entire catalog of ambient music on Spotify/Apple/etc that I could listen to?
Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
#17A friend of mine made an NFT collection with modulars in the browser:
Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
#18I really dislike that after clicking `Start Listening Free` there is no way to get back to the home page.
https://www.flowful.app/ redirects to https://www.flowful.app/player after that.
Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
#19Why are some songs marked as "ADHD"? This sounds like a medical claim that you should not be making.
Plausible deniability: Audio Delivery in High Definition. Besides, does it count as a medical claim if certain content metadata tags happen to coincide with medical acronyms? I'm not a regulatory official, but this seems like a grey area _at worst._ no diagnosis is being made or even implied.
It could just be music that appeals to people with ADHD. Pretty sure that’s not against any rules
Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
#20Is the piano detuned by intention (which is something that rather bothers my concentration)? Does the algorithm select the sounds itself? Is there information on how the "generator" works?