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Massively Multiplayer Online Drum Machine

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Re: Massively Multiplayer Online Drum Machine

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Post by spacefight »

DonaldDerek wrote: post #43
masukomi wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Then what is the reason to integrate it with twitter only? I can't even use it (and I wish I could) unless I sign in.

Re: Massively Multiplayer Online Drum Machine

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Post by bengali3 »

DonaldDerek wrote: post #39
cutups wrote: post #37

So the input to this is posts at their twitter account from your twitter account?

MMODM's Twitter account (@playmmodm). I understand hackers fears as I'm one of them. That's why the better way to play the drum machine is by tweeting to it like so (from Twitter) ' @playmmodm [o---o---o---oxx-xx-x-xx-xxxz--z--zzzz] #MMODM'

i want to share via twitter only after i've found a good combination of beats. Am I missing something here, can this page do anything without being integrated with twitter?

Re: Massively Multiplayer Online Drum Machine

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Post by mylons »

DonaldDerek wrote: post #25
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…

Appreciate your feedback! Putting '-' in your sequence will have add a 1 unit gap between your beat! We're changing the letters order to match qwerty soon!

Derek, I don't think people realize you have to retweet to get this to work? I had the same issue...

I agree with other people who complain about this. I shouldn't have to tweet something in order to see the results.

Re: Massively Multiplayer Online Drum Machine

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Post by taurath »

claar wrote: post #18
DonaldDerek wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

every letter corresponds to a beat! Dashes are spaces between beats! Tweet from either the web-app or from Twitter like so '[dd--dd--ddo---o---o---o] #MMODM'

What is the vertical line? Why does clicking on a box not turn on/off that box? Is there some other way to turn on a box? Is there some way to generate the "[dd--dd--ddo---o---o---o]" for me, so I don't have to figure out the syntax myself and make sure I have the right length of string? Is there some way outside of twitter to try a string like "[dd--dd--ddo---o---o---o]" to see what it does, before I post it to my f…

It doesn't encourage play at all and doesn't even tell you what its supposed to do. Its honestly one of the most frustrating interfaces I've seen. It feels like it would be powerful, but its so unintuitive in even the most basic function of setting beats it fails miserably.
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