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Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Post by jstr_ » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 1:33 PM UTC

I had way too much fun with this during my backlog refinement meeting. Amazing project, well done!

Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Post by polyterative » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 1:59 PM UTC

kenfehling wrote: post #106

I really like the "1st of 2 bars", etc. options. It's a nice UI to make a more complex beat in a smaller space. It'd be cool if there was some kind of "randomize" function to just make a random beat. Maybe not truly random, just something with the basic drums and maybe within some set of constraints.

I agree. I would like it in Ableton

Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Post by Anonio » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 2:14 PM UTC

Would love to have more bars available! anyway here's what I made https://peel.fm/01bdaea

Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Post by rnmmrnm » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 2:25 PM UTC

ekphrasis wrote: post #89

davepeck wrote: post #37

Fun. Always love playing with toys like this. A little d'n'b loop: https://peel.fm/c275e61 The banana tapping in rhythm is a great little touch. Fruity!

Nice amen break-ish loop. Here’s a house one. https://peel.fm/abe44a8

good one!

Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Post by modfreq » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 3:06 PM UTC

patchorang wrote: post #24

berkcebi wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh! I love how you can switch between instruments on each track, that's a great idea. Have you tried Tone.js vs Howler? Any thoughts?

Interesting, I didn't come across Tone.js until now. It looks like it handles a few more things than Howler. Most useful for the drum machine would be scheduling. I'm just using setInterval, which isn't guaranteed to be accurate, but seems good enough for my use case. I want to build some other browser based audio/synth tools. I'll have dig into Tone.js more for one of those, thanks. I'm re-learning to code with thes…

Yooo... MY PEOPLE!!!

I am working on building a web based modular synth I can sequence with/use to sequence my real life modular synth.

I want to be able to live stream my real life synth patches and allow people to mess with some CV paramaters in the browser.

Where can I follow your work?

Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Post by ghkth0987 » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 3:15 PM UTC

wow this was fun

i would suggest adding more rings and tunes, and maybe an equlizer to make more complex beats

Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Post by boredemployee » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 4:42 PM UTC

parabyl wrote: post #109

boredemployee wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice! Talking about detroit and 808: https://youtu.be/R6pTNuBSqhw (the producer is from detroit, the track name is not)

Oof, so very dusty! Lovely track, thanks for the recommendation.

yw! i could talk about D producers all day

Re: Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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Post by digitalslr » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 9:09 PM UTC

polyterative wrote: post #112

kenfehling wrote: post #106

I really like the "1st of 2 bars", etc. options. It's a nice UI to make a more complex beat in a smaller space. It'd be cool if there was some kind of "randomize" function to just make a random beat. Maybe not truly random, just something with the basic drums and maybe within some set of constraints.

I agree. I would like it in Ableton

Bitwig has this feature for looping clips: "Operators". The recurrence operator, specifically. You can do more complicated stuff like "play this note on the 2nd & 4th loop of a 5 loop cycle".

https://www.bitwig.com/userguide/latest/operators/