As someone who was into making electronic music back before Fruity Loops and Hammerhead—-a time when one coveted actual hardware, but was always searching and dreaming about software drum machines because they were cheaper or free, I always find it amazing that we can do this in the browser. I always love seeing cool projects like this come about.
Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples
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Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples
#12Awesome job! I've bookmarked it for future use, can't wait to fill the time before meetings start to jam out!
Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples
#13Nice job! A few suggestions: volume control per note (possibly a popup to avoid slider clutter) and the ability to add additional patterns and then sequence them with copy/paste between patterns so you don't have to recreate each one from scratch.
Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples
#14Woah, I made almost the same thing the other week
https://beatmaker.adammenz.com/
https://github.com/patchorang/drummachine
Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples
#15Nice job! A few suggestions: volume control per note (possibly a popup to avoid slider clutter) and the ability to add additional patterns and then sequence them with copy/paste between patterns so you don't have to recreate each one from scratch.
Makes a ton of sense — will add to my list!
Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples
#16Fantastic, had a lot of fun poking around this little machine. I really love it, here are some minor improvement points: - when right-clicking, the intended functionality of selecting the appropriate rhythm works only half the time or so. The other half is the browser modal showing normal right-click action. Consider doing long-press to change rhythm? - volume per channel feels off. Putting the slider halfway already…
That's awesome to hear, and thanks so much for the detailed feedback. Really appreciate it!
Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples
#17nice, the banana tapping to the bpm was a nice touch https://peel.fm/1dd2e8a
https://peel.fm/ad54081 - my creation /random Banana is underrepresented contributor to technological growth. See also https://www.converttobananas.com/
Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples
#18Looks great and works great! A reset button would be nice to undo the horrible mess I made. A minor note, when I load the page I get console warnings about an Audio Context being prevented from starting automatically, but once I click play everything works perfectly fine.
> A reset button And 'random' button too.
Oh yeah, adding to my to-do list!
Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples
#19Woah, I made almost the same thing the other week https://beatmaker.adammenz.com/ https://github.com/patchorang/drummachine
Huh! I love how you can switch between instruments on each track, that's a great idea.
Have you tried Tone.js vs Howler? Any thoughts?
Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples
#20Very cool, here's my loop :) https://peel.fm/f3148e6
Now we need more instruments and collab editing and you have fruity loops online :)