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

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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…

In my head, a DAW is exactly what it says. A workstation for digital audio. That said, this has the potential to evolve to something more similar to existing professional DAWs and maybe even surpass them. I'm glad you like it. The sound is generated purely by a JavaScript function returning sample values that are then handled by the Web Audio API and buffered. That's how you hear sound. On edit: It's really easy to r…

>I'm glad you like it. The sound is generated purely by a JavaScript function returning sample values

i feel like this belongs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCRPUv8V22o - not in a DAW kinda sense, though

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

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Hi stagas, great job on wavepot! Is there any way we could get in touch off of this thread? My startup company is working on a very similar idea, and I think it would be great to know each other. If you'd like I can send write down my email onto this thread. Hope to talk soon!

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

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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…

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…

>a js-based DAW can load, re-compile and hotswap units on the fly.

REAPER does just this. It has its own audio scripting language, JesuSonic (also abbreviated JS, which can get confusing), which is interpreted. It's not incredibly popular, but people do share code and modules for it. There are some who sell VSTs/AUs/etc (dlls), but give away the same plugin in a JS format in order to support Reaper.

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