Implementation of something like this in Pong would be brilliant, where the ball is the "mouse"
Music Mouse
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#22how fun. maybe the author does not know this, but shift+/ doesn't work on a portuguese keyboard at least in safari; shift-7 is / and shift-' is ? all of the other keys work.
I wonder if the key mapping was copied from the original Mac program.
It does seem odd to require ctrl/shift to make the changes since it necessitates taking your hand off the mouse.
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#23Implementation of something like this in Pong would be brilliant, where the ball is the "mouse"
The old bouncy screensaver.
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#24I had this software when I was a kid on my Macintosh Classic.
This brought back a lot of fond memories -- just doodling with sound.
Thanks!
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#25Wow, this is probably the most intuitively enjoyable music tool I've ever used.
I'm not a musician and I know very little about what makes music good, but playing with this tool felt like I was hearing a better version of my own imagination. Like those scenes in movies where people can suddenly play music and have no idea how they're doing it.
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#26As the world's most Curmudgeonly and Grumpy Old Man (TM) when it comes to web-based music applications ... THIS IS AMAZING. If I wasn't busy, I'd be implementing a native version of this right now. I know some of Laurie Spiegel's music, but had no idea she had ever designed anything like this. Just amazing.
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#27I played with the original a long time ago. IIRC, back then Laurie Spiegel asked for some kind of credit on music that was generated by it given that the musical output would be bounded by the software design.
Also, if you've never heard her album Unseen Worlds, its definitly worth checking out.
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#28Nice! One problem: There's digital clipping. I suspect that the four samples are normalized individually, and when playing at the same time the transients add up to over 0dB. On quality headphones (beyerdynamic dt770 for me) it is quite audible. It happens with the piano and the synth sample, but is more audible with the piano sample.
Additive digital clipping would be happening in your device. You should be able to resolve it by turning your OS volume down. This website could use a volume slider for each voice, though.
> You should be able to resolve it by turning your OS volume down.
It doesn't resolve it, the clipping happens in the audio generation before the OS does anything with it.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
when you first open the page it will only use the white keys, this essentially puts everything in the key of C major and prevents clashing of notes. If you change the setting from "diatonic" to "chromatic" on the top left you'll get the random hitting of keys effect you mention :)
How do you know it's not in A minor? :-)
plot twist: it was E Phrygian
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#30Always love to see Tero Parviainen's new projects. Big inspiration for my webaudio tinkering.