Show HN: Theremin I/O

#1

Post by rwinn » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 4:59 AM UTC

Re: Show HN: Theremin I/O

#2

Post by toddmorey » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 5:21 AM UTC

That site, while beautiful, really frustrated me. I kept clicking to get something to happen, but couldn't. I tried to scroll and each time it would put me back at the top of the page. Let's say that I'm intrigued by the product, but not enough to fight with the site, unfortunately. :(

Re: Show HN: Theremin I/O

#3

Post by rwinn » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 5:23 AM UTC

toddmorey wrote: post #2

That site, while beautiful, really frustrated me. I kept clicking to get something to happen, but couldn't. I tried to scroll and each time it would put me back at the top of the page. Let's say that I'm intrigued by the product, but not enough to fight with the site, unfortunately. :(

That sucks, what OS and browser are you using?

Re: Show HN: Theremin I/O

#4

Post by irollboozers » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 5:23 AM UTC

Are there any open source variants of this? Would love to play around with different possibilities (saxophone or cello setting, piano on your laptop, slappin da bass, etc).

Re: Show HN: Theremin I/O

#5

Post by registered99 » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 5:24 AM UTC

toddmorey wrote: post #2

That site, while beautiful, really frustrated me. I kept clicking to get something to happen, but couldn't. I tried to scroll and each time it would put me back at the top of the page. Let's say that I'm intrigued by the product, but not enough to fight with the site, unfortunately. :(

Yeah the site is pretty annoying to use. It kept forcing me up when I tried to go down.

Re: Show HN: Theremin I/O

#6

Post by rwinn » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 5:30 AM UTC

irollboozers wrote: post #4

Are there any open source variants of this? Would love to play around with different possibilities (saxophone or cello setting, piano on your laptop, slappin da bass, etc).

Nope, but we are discussing releasing the sensor code as a open source library. It's pretty modular already, and wouldn't require a ton of work :)

Re: Show HN: Theremin I/O

#7

Post by RussianCow » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 5:34 AM UTC

toddmorey wrote: post #2

That site, while beautiful, really frustrated me. I kept clicking to get something to happen, but couldn't. I tried to scroll and each time it would put me back at the top of the page. Let's say that I'm intrigued by the product, but not enough to fight with the site, unfortunately. :(

Worked fine for me. Nevertheless, I generally dislike sites like these because they rarely seem to function as intended.

Re: Show HN: Theremin I/O

#8

Post by nichol4s » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 5:38 AM UTC

Looks very interesting - but I had to switch to Chrome to view the site. The scrolling (using mouse wheel / trackpad) doesn't work properly on Safari 6.1.

Re: Show HN: Theremin I/O

#9

Post by namuol » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 5:44 AM UTC

Oooh man, this is an awesome idea. I will be playing with this soon.

But just one suggestion: video footage of the app being used on the page, front-and-center.

The live logo is really neat, but it doesn't really convey anything about the purpose of the app.

I'm already familiar with Theremins, but I'd bet a lot of your userbase wouldn't immediately grasp the nature of the app from what's on the page if they haven't seen one being used before.

Re: Show HN: Theremin I/O

#10

Post by wahnfrieden » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 5:45 AM UTC

This was fun. Why don't you allow setting the key though?

Also, I would love to see a less skeuomorphic interface. Some things are particularly bad, like when changing the scale (you have to tap a button to the left of the active selection to bring up the choice selector).