Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

vitling.xyz

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 257 posts

Re: The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

#5

Post by presentation »

lethologica wrote: post #3

I don't know anything about acid techno. Can someone comment on how accurate this is to the genre? I can't seem to get it to do much but make random beeps and boops, but maybe that's just the style of music?

This is pretty much how it sounds - the particular synthesizer and tweaking its parameters (resonance, filtering, and so on) is the main defining feature, the particular classic drum machine used typically goes along with it - but there’s a lot more variation you can do besides just slowly modulating it like this program does, as well as crossovers to other genres (using that squeaky synth sound in other genres of electronic music).

This anxiety inducing song by Evol basically switches between samples of different acid tracks every other beat, serves as a nice primer for how you can vary it lol

https://youtu.be/2gWCNpSjUDM

And here’s an example of a cross over into electro-pop-driven house music, Peggy Gou’s remix of Shakedown:

https://youtu.be/tZbf2JR422w

Ishkur’s guide to electronic music has a good rundown of the genre and related stuff:

https://music.ishkur.com/?query=Acid#

(Though I prefer the old school Flash UI over this new one tbh lol)

http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/

Re: The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

#6

Post by sneak »

lethologica wrote: post #3

I don't know anything about acid techno. Can someone comment on how accurate this is to the genre? I can't seem to get it to do much but make random beeps and boops, but maybe that's just the style of music?

I'm very, very deep into this genre, for decades.

This is a good algorithmic approximation of the quality of 50-80% of sub-professional acid techno live sets. It's a great minimum bar for "should you be performing live": you should at least be more interesting than this webpage of random patterns and sweeps.

To be honest, I'm going to leave this playing a lot. This is an extremely representative sample of a very specific minimal style, one I love a lot.

Re: The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

#7

Post by sneak »

koboll wrote: post #4

Congratulations, this might be the single coolest web project I've ever seen on this site Add other types of sound (house, trance, etc.) and I will gladly pay a monthly fee to access it

Making interesting music of other genres is a lot more difficult to do algorithmically. One of the big perks of acid techno (a pair of TB-303s and a TR-808 or TR-909 drum machine, and some simple effects processors) is how easy it is to get really interesting sounding stuff out of random patterns and simple filter sweeps.

Re: The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

#8

Post by caseyohara »

lethologica wrote: post #3

I don't know anything about acid techno. Can someone comment on how accurate this is to the genre? I can't seem to get it to do much but make random beeps and boops, but maybe that's just the style of music?

In general this is pretty accurate to the genre. Techno is all about repetition. This is super cool.

Re: The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

#9

Post by strangelove026 »

koboll wrote: post #4

Congratulations, this might be the single coolest web project I've ever seen on this site Add other types of sound (house, trance, etc.) and I will gladly pay a monthly fee to access it

> Congratulations, this might be the single coolest web project I've ever seen on this site

100%

Post reply on HN