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Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Here is my loop :-) https://peel.fm/e431e31

How big are the patterns? Looks like the author implemented a server-side storage with tiny hash. Why not the data itself as base64? That would make it real serverless!

That's a good point! I did consider this but decided against it since the share URLs would be pretty long.

Instead I went with a S3 based storage solution — still pretty simple, not managing any servers or databases manually.

Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Nice idea but this is terrible to use on mobile, the buttons are tiny. Tested on Chrome and Firefox for Android, identically awful on both. An example of a smooth and beautiful mobile experience for this sort of thing: https://tones.fm - synth not drums, same principle though.

Right, it's not optimized for mobile at all — definitely on the to-do list.

Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Awesome, I loved this! I have been using it for my guitar practice.

I'm trying to create the drum track for the starting part of Blue rondo a la turk by Dave Brubeck. Not sure how I can tell you but one quick listen will suffice: https://youtu.be/vKNZqM0d-xo. Can anyone figure out how to program that?

Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Awesome, I loved this! I have been using it for my guitar practice. I'm trying to create the drum track for the starting part of Blue rondo a la turk by Dave Brubeck. Not sure how I can tell you but one quick listen will suffice: https://youtu.be/vKNZqM0d-xo . Can anyone figure out how to program that?

Unfortunately that song is in 9/8 and this drum computer appears to be fixed only in 4/4, you'd need an extra two steps to properly do it in this format really. Or at the very least a way to limit the steps to nine.

Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Awesome, I loved this! I have been using it for my guitar practice. I'm trying to create the drum track for the starting part of Blue rondo a la turk by Dave Brubeck. Not sure how I can tell you but one quick listen will suffice: https://youtu.be/vKNZqM0d-xo . Can anyone figure out how to program that?

It seems this drum machine only can do 4-beat loops (with beats subdivided into 4). Sounds like the Brubeck is in 9/8, subdivided 2-2-2-3, 2-2-2-3, 2-2-2-3, 3-3-3.
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