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Re: Show HN: Sonic Garbage

#11

Post by danielraffel »

Love this we need more creative audio projects! Great work!!

I was inspired by the demo Colugo Music shared over the weekend and made a variation on Sunday and shared a link to it and the code yesterday: https://danielraffel.me/2023/11/21/sonic-garbage/

Demo here: https://polymetallic.co

Every time someone visits my variation of SonicGarbage, it performs a YouTube search with randomly generated phrases to discover videos. It then downloads these videos, processes their audio, and converts them into a loop. The site then generates a unique timestamped URL hosting each sample loop that was generated and adds it to an archive of random YouTube sample packs.

Since this is running on a free tier Google micro instance it takes close to a minute to run this process. So, when you visit you'll be enjoying a page of samples generated by the last person who visited.

You can trigger and loop the sounds by clicking and hovering over the YouTube IDs, simulating a live sampler. Right-clicking the IDs allows you to download the looped sample files. I didn't bother to optimize for mobile so it's desktop only right now...sorry!

Kudos to Colugo Music for inspiring so many of us!

Re: Show HN: Sonic Garbage

#13

Post by gregsadetsky »

danielraffel wrote: post #11

Love this we need more creative audio projects! Great work!! I was inspired by the demo Colugo Music shared over the weekend and made a variation on Sunday and shared a link to it and the code yesterday: https://danielraffel.me/2023/11/21/sonic-garbage/ Demo here: https://polymetallic.co Every time someone visits my variation of SonicGarbage, it performs a YouTube search with randomly generated phrases to discover vi…

Hey Daniel, congrats on your work and nice to see you here! Definitely, Colugo hit the audio project idea bullseye with this one :)

Let’s talk / collab if you want / have time!

Re: Show HN: Sonic Garbage

#14

Post by gregsadetsky »

NoToP wrote: post #4

Are the colours supposed to mean anything? It would be useful to tell at a glance roughly the type of sound I'm going to get (male voice, female voice, instrument, percussion, machine noise, etc)

The colors are random, but I agree with you. I was considering doing some twee basic spectral analysis and using that to inform the colors. I’ll look into it!

Thanks for the suggestion

Re: Show HN: Sonic Garbage

#15

Post by gregsadetsky »

colecut wrote: post #5

Decided to look into greg Clicked his instagram, first video is a live comedy performance introduced by Matthew Silver.. greg is pretty cool

Extreme thanks!!! I’m actually performing tonight at another Matt Silver show. Video should be up soon after :)

Cheers!!

Re: Show HN: Sonic Garbage

#16

Post by gregsadetsky »

DistractionRect wrote: post #12
colecut wrote: post #5

Decided to look into greg Clicked his instagram, first video is a live comedy performance introduced by Matthew Silver.. greg is pretty cool

Your comment prompted me to click around. Teeth ventriloquist was an experience.

Thank you haha. I really liked that sketch but yes, it’s demanding (of the audience) :)

Re: Show HN: Sonic Garbage

#18

Post by ephaeton »

ah nice. I have sonic garbage on offer as well: If y'all need/want some non-traditional didgeridoo samples for toys such as these, do contact me. Whether it's drum sounds (didgeridoo equivalent of: kick, snare, toms, roto-toms), time-insensitive drone loops or percussive molecules/textures, I'm happy to record what you need (yeah, time-boxed naturally if unpaid) for projects such as this one.

Re: Show HN: Sonic Garbage

#19

Post by badcppdev »

I saw that was cool then I realised you could scroll down. Super cool!

One bit of feedback is that as you scroll the boxes can cover each other up so maybe the UI can be tweaked to allow you to stop a sample even if it's might be coloured.

I'd like the samples I've used to show up in a history list on the right.

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