Excellent fun, but when playing with the keyboard, only one of simultaneous keystrokes is recorded.
Show HN: Super Looper – Disco Sequencer App
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#22Awesome stuff. Would love to be able to save and share à la jsfiddle.
See the "record" button to the left of drums -- I hit it w/o realizing what it was for (and managed to record 5 seconds of just one drum going...), but it seems to let you record a session to share.
Edit: here's what one of the save links give you: http://superlooper.universlabs.co.uk/OHu1
or another that's a bit more spare: http://superlooper.universlabs.co.uk/4wCk
The slightly-missed timings are a bit hard to listen to, but this is great fun.
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#23A bit of quantization (automatically aligning notes to the beat) would really improve this. Not sure how computationally feasible that is though.
Very possible with Flash, Java, etc. in the past.
In JavaScript, in particular if you're not using Chrome? Apparently just about impossible (I haven't seen reliable timing yet).
There are a lot of downsides to embedded Flash, applets, etc., but it's going to be a long time until the things that were possible with plugins a decade ago (including decent timing, and even plugging your MIDI keyboard in as an input for a application like this) are possible without plugins.
I have some faith we'll get there eventually; but it's a frustrating time during the gap.
Re: Show HN: Super Looper – Disco Sequencer App
#24A bit of quantization (automatically aligning notes to the beat) would really improve this. Not sure how computationally feasible that is though.
Very possible with Flash, Java, etc. in the past. In JavaScript, in particular if you're not using Chrome? Apparently just about impossible (I haven't seen reliable timing yet). There are a lot of downsides to embedded Flash, applets, etc., but it's going to be a long time until the things that were possible with plugins a decade ago (including decent timing, and even plugging your MIDI keyboard in as an input for a…
you have sample level control- why impossible?
i've implemented naive quantization and MIDI control in my own web apps, without plugins...
Re: Show HN: Super Looper – Disco Sequencer App
#25clicking around the screen without intent has resulted with some more interesting melodies than i had in mind when i started. instruments like this are great for brainstorming.
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#26yep. ok. so. thanks. for making me waste my time at work. this was. just. too much fun. :)
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very possible with Flash, Java, etc. in the past. In JavaScript, in particular if you're not using Chrome? Apparently just about impossible (I haven't seen reliable timing yet). There are a lot of downsides to embedded Flash, applets, etc., but it's going to be a long time until the things that were possible with plugins a decade ago (including decent timing, and even plugging your MIDI keyboard in as an input for a…
you have sample level control- why impossible? i've implemented naive quantization and MIDI control in my own web apps, without plugins...
links or it didn't happen. ;)
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
you have sample level control- why impossible? i've implemented naive quantization and MIDI control in my own web apps, without plugins...
links or it didn't happen. ;)
unfortunately i don't have the code for the step sequencer that used both implementations. but i can share some of the libraries i've released that stemmed from it:
MIDI file parsing/writing/manipulation for js: https://github.com/kn0ll/midi.js
MIDI control for js (requires a server component, wrote this prior to the web MIDI API): https://github.com/kn0ll/midi.io
experimental 3d step sequencer (quantized, naturally): https://github.com/kn0ll/phon2
the issue i had with quantizing captured input is the latency between the device input and the time it's read into the program. this is why i said "naive" quantization. but it works fine for 1/8 steps, and 1/16 steps at most tempos.
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#29Reminds me of Figure, an app (for iPhone) by Propellerhead of Reason fame. See https://www.propellerheads.se/products/figure/.
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#30I really liked to play with this. Being able to create "music" without knowing anything about it.
Thought I'd share my tune with you guys and perhaps the person who made this sees it and finds it funny.
Rather catchy if I may say it myself.