Initially I wanted to call it "Less is More" since I was mostly deleting notes because they convoluted things. But I was also inspired making this sound snippet by the first melody track on the top, hence Melody is Symfony.
I don't know what you plan to do with it but I just had the perfect hour of my life. No feedback on that part. I also don't know how you could surprise me to keep that level up since the constraints in samples that I needed to take was key for having the perfect hour (also mentioned by skndr as "paradox of choice").
Found a 'bug' so if the author is here somewhere, please help :) And it is not your fault, it is Facebook's fault. When I share the link on Facebook http://sampulator.com/melvins_shozin/a-state-of- then Facebook truncates the final - which makes the link invalid.
Maybe my ears are messed up, but I seem to be hearing that the "Keys" sounds are interrupting each other, in a way that none of the other sounds seem to do. That is, if you play two of them simultaneously, only one will be heard. If you play one a fraction behind another the first will be preempted. Normally the "Keys" sounds have a lovely sustain, so this disappoints.
@stevespaced playing tunes works fine on my mobile Chrome, I just have to activate "View desktop site" everytime. You should integrate a mobile player :)
Tangentially, is there software which could enable me to make electronic music (preferably on linux) with only a keyboard? Something quite like this website.
this is utterly amazing. whoever the programmer is, holler at me, I'd love to help you make it a collaborative realtime beat-making engine, i.e. so people can contribute to the same song at the same time. I'm sure you've already thought about this. It's about time for a javascript collaborative beat-making engine to take off, especially with midi support on the horizon or here already (i forget).
I wish someone would bring back the greatness of real-time music sharing from Turntable.fm, except maybe with instruments you could pick up and jam with. Maybe each person gets 1-2 loops, and 4-5 people get to be up on stage at once. Everyone else just gets little avatars that party.
Full real-time collaboration would be so annoying with various latencies. Would be super difficult to set up, but I've always wanted a way to do something like that too.
also, i think the real opportunity here lies in making it open source and making it all programmable. so literally you can program and enhance the damn thing as you use it--at least be able to one-click import extensions from NPM and github. see what im saying. given how many people know javascript, and how often programmers also have musical interests, this could be big.
it should be a codeable music creation platform. a console while making those beats could do a lot of stuff. you write an API to appergiate hits for example:
arp(4, 16, 'hi-hat') ....16th notes for a bar.
plugins could be made to collect stats, and generate visualizations. lots of stuff.
...but it all starts from being able to live code this collaboratively and remotely. ...u gotta use a single state store like Redux or what you can do with Om Next so you can syncronize events between all connected clients and so you can replay it after each keyup eval. It probably should just be made with React + Redux since so many people know that. If you did that, you'd get so many people using this.
That said I'm in the middle of building a collaborative live-coding platform for React + Redux. And your project would be the perfect pilot project to show off the platform. And basically both win.
...i know ur likely thinking about the direction of all this and whether u wanna open source it or not. But you should--its where u stand to gain the most. It's not like there isn't a plethora of commercial music production software that will be better than it for some time. U need the support of a large open source team to beat those guys out.
anyway, think about it. when u open source it, i'll contribute it. React + Redux baby! Or perhaps Cycle. Although I'd say ClojureScript + Om Next, except that will likely get less contribution since CLJS is foreign to most people.
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