If you don't have an iPhone, you can build your own Theremin (with vacuum tubes) by following this Popular Electronics article from 1955: http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/PopularElectronics/Apr1955/PE_A...
Simple!
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#42Just write "disco" anywhere in the page. The creator left a surprise. Cool webGL work.
I was going through the code and found that as well! Nice effect.
Seems like the main.js[1] file is inordinately large to me - did you feel that way?
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#43That 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. :(
Same here - I was trying to turn the nobs, trying to press the 'On/Off' button. And after all that - no YouTube demo etc.
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#44This is unfortunate. I have never heard a worse instrument, and I've been to events where this was played by practiced people. Okay, maybe those annoying horns some cultures play during soccer are worse, but these are still really bad. I consider it more of something that was easy to make rather than something that was made to produce a good result. They would have been better off just coming up with their own thing.
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#45This site reminds me of the Mac Pro site: http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
I hate libraries that alter the scrolling action, don't mess with that please. That's like switching keys on the keyboard, it is a very bad UX...
On a happier note, checking the console made me happy. I didn't event know you could "style" log messages. Very cool.
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#46Confusing site, why not just make a normal website.
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#47This is unfortunate. I have never heard a worse instrument, and I've been to events where this was played by practiced people. Okay, maybe those annoying horns some cultures play during soccer are worse, but these are still really bad. I consider it more of something that was easy to make rather than something that was made to produce a good result. They would have been better off just coming up with their own thing.
Taste is hardly a useful factor for reviewing an instrument.
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#48check out standaloneV2 as well https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/standalonev2/id656556702?mt=..., works similar but based on sound waves and is free for the month as a part of the wrong biennial http://thewrong.org/
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#49This is unfortunate. I have never heard a worse instrument, and I've been to events where this was played by practiced people. Okay, maybe those annoying horns some cultures play during soccer are worse, but these are still really bad. I consider it more of something that was easy to make rather than something that was made to produce a good result. They would have been better off just coming up with their own thing.
Correct me if I'm wrong but it has midi functionality on the payed version. This actually means that it could sound as anything as soon as you plug it on your computer and apply some sampled sound.
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#50Just write "disco" anywhere in the page. The creator left a surprise. Cool webGL work.
I was going through the code and found that as well! Nice effect. Seems like the main.js[1] file is inordinately large to me - did you feel that way? [1] http://theremin.io/scripts/main.js?v=5
I did feel the same.
It's quite large and poorly fragmented in my honest opinion. But the code sure does the job !