Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web

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Post by jarmitage » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 7:10 PM UTC

For another take on live coding in the browser: http://gibber.mat.ucsb.edu/

Check out http://algorave.com for more info on the live coding music scene, which has really taken off in the last year.

I can't wait for someone to combine live coding with Swift Playground/Bret Victor 'revealing the system' style interfaces.

Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web

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Post by msane » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 7:11 PM UTC

This is dope

Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web

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Post by larme » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 7:19 PM UTC

fat0wl wrote: post #14

JonnieCache wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This kind of thing has existed in desktop/native form for some years. Look up supercollider.

& max/msp even included js but it operated at control rate, not audio, so you couldn't write synths directly as js

Max now have gen[1] so you can write audio/sample rate code.

[1]: http://cycling74.com/products/gen/

Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web

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Post by lucb1e » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 7:22 PM UTC

jchrisa wrote: post #20

That was fun. Here is my detuned remix of "on the verge tech mix" https://gist.github.com/jchris/04585454570853297974

I like it! It is cool to see not just the demo projects, but people actually making something with it :)

Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web

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Post by lucb1e » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 7:22 PM UTC

Making music with code seems pretty neat, perhaps I'll learn to play an instrument after all some day (that being the instrument of code)!

Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web

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Post by japhyr » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 7:30 PM UTC

This is great! I teach high school math and science, and students often ask how sound waves can be turned into music. I give them a big-picture overview of sine waves and superposition, but I've never had a tool that lets students play with the math easily.

I look forward to showing this to students in the fall.

Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web

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Post by noname123 » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 7:30 PM UTC

Can't wait to go to the next Girl Talk show where instead of DJ pressing space bar to play, they press F5 to "Compile and Run..."

Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web

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Post by saltyknuckles » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 7:36 PM UTC

Very good work, I like this a lot.

Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web

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Post by castis » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 7:38 PM UTC

PabloOsinaga wrote: post #16

Wavepot team: really awesome stuff! love it. At Bandhub ( http://bandhub.us ) we are looking for ways to integrate programmed music into our web DAW. If you guys are up for a collaboration or want to discuss ideas, ping me osi (at) getbandhub (dot) com

Oh wow, I had this idea a few years ago and put together a handful of crap prototypes. Stoked someone is doing it. Well done, I love it!

Re: Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web

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Post by jamesmoss » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 7:41 PM UTC

A scene has sprung up around music based on algorithms, called Algorave http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorave

Vice did an article on the subject a few months back which gives an overview of the scene (from a layman's view) http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/algorave-is-the-future-of-dan...