now all we need is a javascript powered mod player.
Beeplay.js: Write a song in JavaScript
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#12now all we need is a javascript powered mod player.
You mean like this[0] one?
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#13very nice, although the text shadow on the code makes it a bit hard to read
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#14I remember making these kinds of songs in BASIC. Very fun!
I remember in PASCAL with the sound() function:
sound(100);
delay(3000);
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#15A friend recently created something similar, and he ended up transcribing the full-length Super Mario theme song! http://eshiota.github.io/retro-audio-js/ Presentation here: http://www.slideshare.net/eshiota/web-audio-band-playing-wit...
Very awesome! Interestingly, in both Chrome and Firefox, the song stops playing ("mostly") if you switch to a different tab. I say "mostly" because Chrome seems to play a single note every 10-20 seconds even with the tab backgrounded.
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#16I'd love to specify wave types or even more advanced stuff such as FM synthesis. With a little work, modules such as this one may enable a whole new category of innovative/strange browser apps.
CoffeeCollider is a coffeescript clone of SuperCollider, it has a lot of options for subtractive/additive/fm/granular synthesis and algorithmic sequencing/composition.
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#17I would love to see a MIDI interpreter for something like this. MIDI is already a series of note events (among other weird things like pitchbend and sustain, so it couldn't be too hard.
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#18If play returned a reference to the play function you could chain them like
.play('D#5', 1/4)('E5', 1/4)
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#19I'd love to specify wave types or even more advanced stuff such as FM synthesis. With a little work, modules such as this one may enable a whole new category of innovative/strange browser apps.
CoffeeCollider is a coffeescript clone of SuperCollider, it has a lot of options for subtractive/additive/fm/granular synthesis and algorithmic sequencing/composition. http://mohayonao.github.io/CoffeeCollider/
timbre.js (also from this person) is pretty cool too.
http://mohayonao.github.io/timbre.js/
This weekend I used it to make a white noise generator for studying, etc.. http://www.noisemachine.co
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#20A friend recently created something similar, and he ended up transcribing the full-length Super Mario theme song! http://eshiota.github.io/retro-audio-js/ Presentation here: http://www.slideshare.net/eshiota/web-audio-band-playing-wit...
Very awesome! Interestingly, in both Chrome and Firefox, the song stops playing ("mostly") if you switch to a different tab. I say "mostly" because Chrome seems to play a single note every 10-20 seconds even with the tab backgrounded.
Yeap, both setTimeout and setInterval are being sacrificed for performance. Alternatively you could use WebWorkers to offload the timers for precision.