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Massively Multiplayer Online Drum Machine

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Re: Massively Multiplayer Online Drum Machine

#42

Post by Pistos2 »

emitstop wrote: post #23

As someone who spends a lot of his time playing around with drum machines, I couldn't figure out how to use this. I was only able to make lines without laying down any individual notes. Not sure what I'm missing here? Also another thing to note, is that setting up the key triggers in alphabetical order like that is odd and really unintuitive. The standard for most digital audio workstations is to line up the top two…

Same here. Cannot figure out the interface at all. Chromium. Pressing letters actuates a sound effect once, okay. Numbers for the effects. Okay. Left and right arrow keys changes BPM. Fine. Other than that, I cannot seem to lay down any notes in the sequence at all. No idea what the vertical line means when I click to try to lay down a note.

Re: Massively Multiplayer Online Drum Machine

#43

Post by DonaldDerek »

masukomi wrote: post #19
DonaldDerek wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good point, it's text based because I miss playing around with text-based interfaces. Other than to please the keyboard junky in me, using Twitter stream API as a part of your system has so many cool benefits...

right but... how do i know if it's a cool rhythm before tweeting? I don't get how to create something without spamming people with crap.

if you mention @playmmodm in your tweet like so'@playmmodm [o---o---oxx-x-x-z-z-z] #MMODM' you wont spam your friends because they're not following @playmmodm! Hope that helps a bit while we take all the good feedback we got here and fine-tune those details. Thanks.

Re: Massively Multiplayer Online Drum Machine

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Post by wolfgke »

emitstop wrote: post #23

As someone who spends a lot of his time playing around with drum machines, I couldn't figure out how to use this. I was only able to make lines without laying down any individual notes. Not sure what I'm missing here? Also another thing to note, is that setting up the key triggers in alphabetical order like that is odd and really unintuitive. The standard for most digital audio workstations is to line up the top two…

If you scroll below, you can read: "To add your own notes, sign in with Twitter.".

Re: Massively Multiplayer Online Drum Machine

#46

Post by basheertome »

curiously wrote: post #41

hope you guys enjoyed my drum solo at about 1:00 PM PST I totally killed it.... because nobody else played anything for a while. but seriously, what was used to build this? meteor.js?

haha it was pretty killer.

You can checkout the code on Github here: https://github.com/mmodm/mmodm

We used a mixture of stuff, but mostly just node.js and jquery

Re: Massively Multiplayer Online Drum Machine

#47

Post by DonaldDerek »

curiously wrote: post #41

hope you guys enjoyed my drum solo at about 1:00 PM PST I totally killed it.... because nobody else played anything for a while. but seriously, what was used to build this? meteor.js?

Thank you! I think we did, I'd have to check the database logs! If you click on the share link, you can save the cool drum beat you made!

We used Node.js, Express, socket.io, cluster, redis and MongoDB! Please fork us! https://github.com/MMODM/mmodm

Re: Massively Multiplayer Online Drum Machine

#48

Post by DonaldDerek »

lytedev wrote: post #44

Yeeeeaaaah... Why does your music toy need to be able "see who I follow and follow new people", "update my profile", or "post tweets for me"? That's just not happening. It's unnecessary.

Read/Write access to be able to tweet on your behalf with your access token. We're changing that to a Twitter button as we speak. If you still feel like giving mmodm a shot, you can Tweet the sequence from your own account without the need of oauth! Make sure to follow this pattern '@playmmodm [o--o--x-x-x-xzzs] #MMODM'

Re: Massively Multiplayer Online Drum Machine

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Post by spacefight »

DonaldDerek wrote: post #48
lytedev wrote: post #44

Yeeeeaaaah... Why does your music toy need to be able "see who I follow and follow new people", "update my profile", or "post tweets for me"? That's just not happening. It's unnecessary.

Read/Write access to be able to tweet on your behalf with your access token. We're changing that to a Twitter button as we speak. If you still feel like giving mmodm a shot, you can Tweet the sequence from your own account without the need of oauth! Make sure to follow this pattern '@playmmodm [o--o--x-x-x-xzzs] #MMODM'

Still not necessary. A simple share button is enough.
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