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Holy crap! This is great!
Note, this isn't a complaint, it's merely a request to understand why my comment is inappropriate and to understand how I can express my approval of a submission without losing karma.
Holy crap! This is great!
Would someone kindly explain why I and two other users (msane and jrlocke) were downvoted for simply expressing delight? Is that somehow unwelcome? I don't see anything against that in the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Note, this isn't a complaint , it's merely a request to understand why my comment is inappropriate and to understand how I can express my approval of a submission without losin…
Anyway, I didn't downvote you btw, just my 2 cents from what I've read in the past.
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.
If so, where can I find the repo?
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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…
Realtime audio DSP seems like about the last thing that in-browser JavaScript was designed to do well. Janky audio is unnacceptable in a way that janky visuals aren't. It totally kills the experience. Without very strong guarantees about GC latency and thread scheduling that are neither available nor on the horizon for in-browser js, it won't work for anything beyond fun hacks.
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& 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/
especially annoying when features you like get deprecated (pluggo, ms. pinky) though i understand gen & max4live both kinda serve as pluggo replacements. all in all its just hard for me to pull the trigger on a $250 upgrade for a few extra integration points on a tool that should be mostly open source anyway.
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Max now have gen[1] so you can write audio/sample rate code. [1]: http://cycling74.com/products/gen/
yea want to try it but i'm stuck on max 5... max upgrades are more expensive than they're worth & now its splitting into multiple products (max4live,gen) so i'm kindof on an every other generation plan unfortunately. especially annoying when features you like get deprecated (pluggo, ms. pinky) though i understand gen & max4live both kinda serve as pluggo replacements. all in all its just hard for me to pull the trigg…
I feel like if something were done to prevent Pd from being wiped off the map we could have had an open source community by now rather than Cycling 74. hm.... the media production world is complicated for open source tho.