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Show HN: A Web-Based Modular Drum Machine for You to Play With
Author : maxime_cb
Score : 115 points
Date : 2022-05-01 14:54 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (noisecraft.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (noisecraft.app)
| PaulDavisThe1st wrote:
| This is deeply impressive. I remain in principle opposed to web-
| centric audio app development, but this is probably the first one
| I've seen that puts a couple of small explosive devices under the
| foundations of that belief and gives it a good rumble. So much
| stuff that has been done right, and so much open-endedness to the
| entire system. As much as I hate to say it, amazing!
| maxime_cb wrote:
| Thanks Paul. Web development definitely has its downsides. It's
| been challenging to get everything to work well across
| Chrome/Firefox and Safari because there's annoying little
| differences in the way they handle mouse events for example (I
| might blog about this at some point).
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| The upside though is that with an app like this, anyone can
| start experimenting with music and sound design from their
| computer, without installing anything, and you can easily show
| your friends the things you created (or share ideas with
| internet strangers).
| andoli wrote:
| this is great thanks for sharing
| appleflaxen wrote:
| This is incredible; thank you for posting it!
| yesenadam wrote:
| Thank you! Musician here, this is the first music-related ShowHN
| I ever loved at first sight like this. Amazing, sounds awesome
| and looks gorgeous.
| measure2xcut1x wrote:
| Very quickly added knobs and filters and mapped them to my NI
| controller with no friction. Legit acid tones within minutes.
| maxime_cb wrote:
| Please share your project with acid tones! :)
| 1ntEgr8 wrote:
| This is amazing :)
| maxime_cb wrote:
| OP here. I've been working on an app/platform for people to
| explore musical ideas. This is a drum machine that a European
| friend of mine created using the app. You can press the Play
| button in the top-right corner to start audio playback and
| customize the pattern being played by clicking the red squares on
| the step sequencer.
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| If this example is too big and scary, I've made a simpler drum
| machine here: https://noisecraft.app/529
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| And many more examples can be found on the browse page:
| https://noisecraft.app/browse
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| One of my all-time favorites is this one:
| https://noisecraft.app/101
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| Disclaimer that this is made with laptop/desktop computers in
| mind and may not work well on mobile. The app supports binding
| MIDI controls by double clicking on knobs :)
| ushakov wrote:
| do you have a tutorial how to use it?
|
| the main page is a bit overwhelming
| maxime_cb wrote:
| There is a help page to get you started:
| https://noisecraft.app/help
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| It's pretty basic but I invite people to open pull requests
| to improve it.
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| This video shows how (an older version) of the app is used:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=609k3_Z-16o
| greg7gkb wrote:
| I've used various forms of these audio tools in the past (MAX,
| PD) and this is a very impressive piece of work. First, I
| haven't seen one implemented with web technologies before, and
| after running through many example projects there were zero
| errors or issues for me. Everything seems clear and
| straightforward.
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| Nicely done, congrats on publishing this, and thanks for making
| it open source!
| ogig wrote:
| > One of my all-time favorites is this one:
| https://noisecraft.app/101
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| I have to agree. Already spent 10 minutes only with the cutoff
| and res.
|
| Impressive work on the app, kudos!
| quijoteuniv wrote:
| Awesome! It worked quite alright on my mobile i have to say.
| maxime_cb wrote:
| Nice. What kind of device are you using?
| nickphx wrote:
| I'm on a pixel 6, using chrome and it worked rather well.
| ycombinatorrio wrote:
| Thank you internet stranger for all the work you have done
| there
| maxime_cb wrote:
| No problem :)
|
| I should mention that this is open source too:
| https://github.com/maximecb/noisecraft
| lbj wrote:
| Very impressive. How long have you been working on this?
| maxime_cb wrote:
| Since 2019 on and off in my spare time. I've found motivation
| comes and goes and I actually spent one year not working on it
| at all, but resumed work in 2021.
| necro wrote:
| Hats off. Great interface and i enjoyed making a few simple beats
| which is probably a very small part what the system is capable
| of. Thank you
| maxime_cb wrote:
| Thank you. The UI is pretty basic but I tried to design it in
| such a way that the functionality would feel intuitive to
| newcomers, with as few hidden features as possible. I picked
| this project to share because I figured that it was very easy
| for people to play with by editing the pattern, without needing
| to understand how the sound synthesis works.
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