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

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Post by fat0wl »

saidajigumi wrote: post #81
fat0wl wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And I should point out that I personally feel kinda guilty... I met Miller Puckette and he was so enthusiastic about PureData and how much more the community could grow. I realize the biggest reason Max is thriving is because of marketing and now integration with Ableton. 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…

> 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. But we got another repeat of the scenario: the OSS project was unable to muster decent UI while the commercial variant was able to both fund the staff and draw out the needs from its user community to make continual UI improvements. (Speaking specifically to the vas…

yeahhhh i mean i guess part of the "guilt" i was expressing is a regret that I was too young/inexperienced to be able to contribute and I too just handed money over to Max/MSP when they were still on version 4, which IIRC was not very different from Pd at the time.

I think when Max 5 introduced "Presentation Mode" I knew it was over, and then Max for Live was the nail in the coffin, but prior to that I'd seen most students using Max because they believed it was more feature-rich even though most of our professors were using Pd to do more complex work than my Max-toting peers. Similar to Matlab/Octave... I've seen a few Octave users outpacing Matlab users simply because they were free to experiment without having the roadblocks of toolkit purchases.

Cycling 74 has done a good job over time for sure I'm just saying that as recently as 5-10 years ago there wasn't such a clear dichotomy, and the release of Max for Live really struck me because it was a proprietary integration, huge departure from pluggo's VST philosophy.

I think I just have to get used to the fact that despite the great work being done on projects like Pd/Jack/Ardour, audio technology is probably drifting further away from OSS than towards it

It's tough, I want to contribute to to some audio projects but most of the ones that are gaining traction seem to be putting up paywalls or are too rooted in platform-specific code. I'm toying with some audio stuff on the JVM, will see how that goes....

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

cdcarter wrote: post #57
chillingeffect wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It's not against the guidelines, but it doesn't create conversation. Many people find that fairly useless, and prefer comments with substance that advance the community. The best way to express your approval of a submission? Upvote it.

>The best way to express your approval of a submission? Upvote it. //

Except with hidden vote scores it doesn't express anything at all (except changing a number on the OP's interface; the OP doesn't even know that you upvoted them).

If you want to express your approval to anyone other than the parent/OP or have anyone know who is expressing approval [that is occasionally relevant] then you have to comment.

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

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Post by notthetup »

jarmitage wrote: post #21

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.

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

THIS!

Let's build it!

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

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Post by Gracana »

chillingeffect wrote: post #41
chillingeffect wrote: post #10

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…

I once thanked someone for submitting something interesting after their article had been up for a few hours and nobody commented. Someone downvoted me and took the time to condescendingly explain why my comment was worthless. I really don't understand that attitude. :|

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

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Post by jimbobimbo »

jamesmoss wrote: post #30

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...

Oh, this is so good, thanks for posting the link to Vice! Very much Oval-like performance, super awesome!

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

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Post by zhodge »

As someone who's completely ignorant to the concepts behind algorave, could anyone more experienced outline the helpful prerequisites to know before I experiment with a tool like Wavepot?

I assume it's mostly the (basic?) physics of sound waves that I'd need to understand?

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

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Post by sunpazed »

JonnieCache wrote: post #2

This 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…

This is awesome!

I'll certainly contribute to this. Will the source be opened up?

Here's a delay filter:

  var delay_array = [];
  var delay_length = 5;
  var delay_feedback = 0.6;
  var delay_volume = 0.4;

  function delay(x) {

    y = 0;
  
    if (delay_array.length
Include this in the DSP return code, ie;

  return delay(synth);
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