Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats • Hacker News Board

Android only recently released APIs for sound that are accurate enough for these kinds of applications. As the % of devices running Android 5.0 starts increasing, we'll see sound mixing (and similar) apps there too.

Re: Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats

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Post by blacktar » Fri, Nov 21, 2014, 4:14 PM UTC

Great to see more startups coming out of my native Norway. Looks like a fun app. Looking forward to see where they are going with this one.

Re: Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats

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Post by mrborgen » Fri, Nov 21, 2014, 4:16 PM UTC

defied wrote: post #3

Looks great! This is only available in the US app store?

Thanks, no it's world wide. You can't find it? Should be able to be downloaded through this link anywhere in the world: https://itunes.apple.com/app/disco-fingers/id809680953

Would really like to hear it if you're having troubles downloading it.

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Post by dagvonkr » Fri, Nov 21, 2014, 4:18 PM UTC

zrgiu_ wrote: post #4

fsqcds wrote: post #2

Android please!

Android only recently released APIs for sound that are accurate enough for these kinds of applications. As the % of devices running Android 5.0 starts increasing, we'll see sound mixing (and similar) apps there too.

Thanks for the tip, we'll check that out! We used web audio for audio processing for this app. There were a lot of challenges on the way!

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Post by Pistus » Fri, Nov 21, 2014, 4:21 PM UTC

Fun app, got into it immediately. Will test it on my niece in the weekend

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Post by thewarrior » Fri, Nov 21, 2014, 4:23 PM UTC

Do you restrict notes to the pentatonic scale like many such apps do so that you always get pleasant sounding results ?

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Post by jastanton » Fri, Nov 21, 2014, 4:27 PM UTC

Reading their launch diary is very interesting. Most notably they write down how many downloads, and how much revenue they have had and how much is in their bank. Having never done a startup by myself before and often wondering what it's like financially this is a very interesting reading. I will be checking back a day or two from now (their launch) to see what their numbers our.

Also fantastic looking app, if I had an iPad I would download it :)