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Incredibox - Background music for programming.

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Re: Incredibox - Background music for programming.

#23
This (or at least the shuffle mode) reminds me of AlgoMusic, a music generator for the Amiga that, back in the day, provided me many hours of coding music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyUnXjVgx44

I'm going to throw Incredibox into shuffle mode for a while to see how long it takes me to switch back to Daft Punk.

Re: Incredibox - Background music for programming.

#24
I think this is a mighty clever app; I'm not really sure why there are so many negative comments.

It would be nice if the url changed with the sample combinations though. It looks like you can record a chunk of the sound and share that, but I'm far more interested in sharing the exact combination that I come up with than I am the sound itself. I'd love to just send a link to a friend so that they could not only see the combination in action but also dive in and make it their own.

Re: Incredibox - Background music for programming.

#25

I can hack/design for hours without even knowing it while listening to Kap Slap. It also helps you run a 5K faster than you might have originally imagined :) Anyone who likes remixes/house/dubstep I'd encourage you check it out! The spring break mix is an hour long and it's full of goodies. http://soundcloud.com/kapslap/kap-slap-spring-break-mix p.s. I'm only evangelizing this stuff so much because honestly if I set…

I LOVE driving to Featurecast: http://soundcloud.com/featurecast

Re: Incredibox - Background music for programming.

#27

I can hack/design for hours without even knowing it while listening to Kap Slap. It also helps you run a 5K faster than you might have originally imagined :) Anyone who likes remixes/house/dubstep I'd encourage you check it out! The spring break mix is an hour long and it's full of goodies. http://soundcloud.com/kapslap/kap-slap-spring-break-mix p.s. I'm only evangelizing this stuff so much because honestly if I set…

Love this, any more recco's?

Re: Incredibox - Background music for programming.

#28

Every once in a while all of them pause in sync. Try using distinct primes for the length of a musical cycle to create a different sound. Not sure how it would for beats, but I know visually this is useful.

Great and fun application, but these little pauses at the "seams" between the loops are REALLY throwing me off.

You can't stomp your feet to this for more then one whole loop. Too bad, I loved the idea and the implementation!

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