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

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Post by jm547ster »

This is really cool, really nice level of abstraction.

The 303 example in the environments in which I learned computer music fundamentals (PD, Max, CSound, Supercollider) would require either much more or less understanding and/or 3rd party implementations of components to generate something similar. Most importantly the sound is really nice.

Btw the categorisation of it being a DAW is dependent on the user perspective, I've created what I would consider to be DAW equivalents in Max/Pure Data, that facilitate audio/midi recording and playback; just because a toolkit doesn't do stuff for you automatically doesn't mean it isn't capable. DAW in my opinion is just a marketing term not a descriptive one.

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

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Post by GuiA »

zapt02 wrote: post #65

Slightly related question: Are there any courses I can take specifically aimed at making music by programming? Lynda or similar preferred, articles / books also work as long as they have examples using some sort of software (not just algorithms)

I quite like http://musicforgeeksandnerds.com

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

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Post by hmsimha »

zapt02 wrote: post #65

Slightly related question: Are there any courses I can take specifically aimed at making music by programming? Lynda or similar preferred, articles / books also work as long as they have examples using some sort of software (not just algorithms)

Unfortunately the course materials aren't available any more, but you should watch for the next offering of this course by the California Institutes of the Arts on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/course/chuck101

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

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Post by PabloOsinaga »

bbrennan wrote: post #66
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

Cool site, can't wait to check it out. Would love to see deeper support for programming and mastering

we do have some mixing support in beta - ping me if you want early access osi (at) getbandhub (dot) com

re: programming - we are trying to figure out what's the best model. One thing we are trying to avoid is complex timelines to make it easy for the average recreational musician.

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

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Post by stagas »

zapt02 wrote: post #64

This is amazing, but I wish there was a clear way of knowing when there is an error causing your changes to not be output. I fiddled for a couple of minutes without any changes before realizing i had forgotten to initialize a variable. (the x checkmarks don't seem to work for unassignad variables..)

A debug console is planned for milestone I that will help for those issues.

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

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Post by stagas »

lomocotive wrote: post #61

can you tell more about how you coded the fundraiser modal? is it just checking the balances on those addresses then converting them to USD? im sure its a simple solution but i'd be happy to hear more about it - i was thinking of making a similar one for my own project, but it would be good if it displayed different addresses per visitor for better obfuscation...lets say have half of a wallet full of addresses, then…

It is using 3rd party APIs server-side to check wallets' balances, converts doge to btc and then converts the sum of btc to USD. I like the obfuscation idea but I'm not sure it's worth the complexity in this particular use-case.

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

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Post by stagas »

jm547ster wrote: post #71

This is really cool, really nice level of abstraction. The 303 example in the environments in which I learned computer music fundamentals (PD, Max, CSound, Supercollider) would require either much more or less understanding and/or 3rd party implementations of components to generate something similar. Most importantly the sound is really nice. Btw the categorisation of it being a DAW is dependent on the user perspecti…

Thanks! I have background in Music Technology but I'm just starting with DSP myself. Most of the stuff I use are ported from code I found online so I can't really take credit for those though.

A modular piece of software like this can achieve pretty much the same as professional DAWs. Consider modules that add UI elements, automations, etc. It won't be long until the abstraction is high enough so everyone just assembles their own custom DAWs on the fly.

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