Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web
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Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web
#2This isn't really a DAW. For those unfamiliar, a DAW is a fully-featured music creation environment including sound design, composition, recording, arrangement and mixing in one interface. Examples include logic, cubase and ableton.
While I suppose this does allow for all of those things, as much as any programming language with access to an audio API does, this would be better described as a web-based DSP livecoding environment.
Apart from the naming quibbles, it looks excellent! I wonder what's generating the sound? I'm aware of the oscillator/filter primitives in the HTML5 audio API from the minimoog google doodle, but this seems more elaborate than that.
EDIT: for fun times, load "need more 303," scroll down to the bottom, and change some of the numbers around. Setting the slide() call to 1/1024 yields a nice FM-ish sound. You can even overdrive the filter. Reach for the lasers!
Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web
#3Wonderful
Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web
#4This isn't really a DAW. For those unfamiliar, a DAW is a fully-featured music creation environment including sound design, composition, recording, arrangement and mixing in one interface. Examples include logic, cubase and ableton. While I suppose this does allow for all of those things, as much as any programming language with access to an audio API does, this would be better described as a web-based DSP livecoding…
which controls are usable? everything i click just gives me an annoying "gimme $$" popup, haven't actually found a function that works
Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web
#5This isn't really a DAW. For those unfamiliar, a DAW is a fully-featured music creation environment including sound design, composition, recording, arrangement and mixing in one interface. Examples include logic, cubase and ableton. While I suppose this does allow for all of those things, as much as any programming language with access to an audio API does, this would be better described as a web-based DSP livecoding…
which controls are usable? everything i click just gives me an annoying "gimme $$" popup, haven't actually found a function that works
I just loaded some example projects, hit the play button and started changing the code. The output responded immediately.
Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web
#6This isn't really a DAW. For those unfamiliar, a DAW is a fully-featured music creation environment including sound design, composition, recording, arrangement and mixing in one interface. Examples include logic, cubase and ableton. While I suppose this does allow for all of those things, as much as any programming language with access to an audio API does, this would be better described as a web-based DSP livecoding…
It seems their goal is to make a full-fledged DAW in the browser, but they are not there yet (and far from it from what I can tell). How they would be able to fund all that for $2k is beyond me.
That said, it's a really clever idea to have all the source editable, since js is an interpreted language anyway. One can imagine a future where the community not only shares songs and sounds, but the DSP units themselves. Unlike desktop DAWs, which rely on dylibs (dlls) to supply external synths and effects, a js-based DAW can load, re-compile and hotswap units on the fly.
Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web
#7This isn't really a DAW. For those unfamiliar, a DAW is a fully-featured music creation environment including sound design, composition, recording, arrangement and mixing in one interface. Examples include logic, cubase and ableton. While I suppose this does allow for all of those things, as much as any programming language with access to an audio API does, this would be better described as a web-based DSP livecoding…
Yeah, it's definitely cool for what it is -- but it is NOT a DAW.
I would call it the audio equivalent of OpenSCAD.
Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web
#8This isn't really a DAW. For those unfamiliar, a DAW is a fully-featured music creation environment including sound design, composition, recording, arrangement and mixing in one interface. Examples include logic, cubase and ableton. While I suppose this does allow for all of those things, as much as any programming language with access to an audio API does, this would be better described as a web-based DSP livecoding…
It seems their goal is to make a full-fledged DAW in the browser, but they are not there yet (and far from it from what I can tell). How they would be able to fund all that for $2k is beyond me. That said, it's a really clever idea to have all the source editable, since js is an interpreted language anyway. One can imagine a future where the community not only shares songs and sounds, but the DSP units themselves. Un…
This kind of thing has existed in desktop/native form for some years. Look up supercollider.
Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
which controls are usable? everything i click just gives me an annoying "gimme $$" popup, haven't actually found a function that works
I just loaded some example projects, hit the play button and started changing the code. The output responded immediately.
ah yah for some reason mine showed a blank file & couldnt expand projects. refreshed & its good, this is a pretty awesome project
Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web
#10Holy crap! This is great!