[HN Gopher] Create epic music together with friends and strangers ___________________________________________________________________ Create epic music together with friends and strangers Author : paulkrush Score : 59 points Date : 2022-09-04 18:16 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (test.plink.in) (TXT) w3m dump (test.plink.in) | allears wrote: | Site uses invalid certificate. Certificate is registered to | casestudies.dinahmoe.com. | chaosprint wrote: | Very interesting idea and very good experience. Love the visual | design. Would be happy to see it in detail but I guess it is not | open-source? | | A phenomenon I observe is that when many of us are at the same | place, right after one person start to click and drag, the rest | start to do the same thing. But after a while, I found that | available synths are quite limited so I close the page. I guess | the creator can get some statistics and test with different sound | making possibilities. Can have some genres preferences such as | Melody or Noise feast... | | An idea is to use Glicol.js(https://glicol.js.org/) as the audio | engine instead of the raw Web Audio API and save the result | somewhere so it can be reused for research or future composition. | The usage of Glicol like this can be found on https://synth.is/ | | Some socials would be even better. On Glicol | website(https://glicol.org) there is also an App for | collaborative music live coding where at least we can change the | name and chat as comments. | | All in all, I see great potential in this App. I feel that the | best place for it is actually not here in HN or other place you | share links, but allocated in different museums like Tate. I once | thought about setting up some collaborative live coding devices | that way. But this is apparently a better fit for the museum | context for its intuitiveness! | agentwiggles wrote: | This is wildly cool. At one point I locked in with another user | for about a minute or two, we were taking cues from each other | and getting into little call-response counterpoint kinda | patterns. | | Every once in a while when I'm playing with other musicians, I | hit this little moment of magic where both people start to smile | - there's something happening, you're working together. That | feeling is one of the most joyful human experiences I know of. I | started to feel that same smile creep across my face when I | synced up with whatever anonymous stranger was playing at the | same time as me. We were dancing back and forth, trading high and | low voices. | | This a really fun little toy. What an awesome thing, to enable | that brief moment of joy and connection with another, anonymously | online while I sat here on the toilet. :) | | Thanks for sharing. | cush wrote: | The URL is wrong. Should be https://plink.in | cush wrote: | This is so fun!! Really needs keyboard support though | stevenalowe wrote: | Tremendous fun! | mkaic wrote: | This is so fun! Spent 10 minutes just jamming out. I think the | scale and time quantizations are what make it truly fun to use, | because it's almost hard to make anything sound bad! Love it. | conradfr wrote: | How did this get upvoted without the correct url? | | This is fun though. | danbmil99 wrote: | I'm getting a cert error | andybak wrote: | Me too. | bitwize wrote: | It reminds me of the random/algorithmically generated riffs from | Ballblazers. Looks like they use a pentatonic scale so the result | always sounds good, no matter how wildly you scribble. | feoren wrote: | I'm confused, it doesn't look like it's possible to actually do | anything on this site. There's a bunch of already-completed | projects you want me to look at described with text that runs | outside of its bounding box, and when I manage to actually figure | out how to click on one of the projects, it's one of those awful | full-screen ad-pages where you write one sentence with a huge | banner image and I have to scroll a page down to read the next | sentence? | | Is the title clickbait? You don't seem at all interested in | having me create any sort of music. You seem interested in | selling me on something that Beck did. | paulkrush wrote: | What?, no this is real. The URL is wrong. I put in "plink.in" | and HN added "test." or something... Go to https://plink.in/ | and click "play now". You "Jam" with other random people. It | "makes" you sound good. I don't know music, but I have a | feeling that anyone who does would just bash this for being | superficial. | TonyTrapp wrote: | Hacker News uses the canonical link attribute of the site, if | present. The canonical link to your site, according to the | HTML header, is test.plink.in. You should fix that because | not only Hacker News will get confused by that. | | That said, it's a nice toy! | abledon wrote: | https://plink.in/ everyone! This is the best site I have used in | the past 2 years. Wow. I was laughing at all the melodies my | teammate kept making, then i tried to syncopate and throw in a | competing solo. | | at one point we ('parental cougar' and 'developed gerbil') had | the call & response blues solo thing going. This is HILARIOUS! | | Well Done!!!!!!!! | | augmentatations: - Hotkeys to switch instruments, - AWSD or arrow | keys to navigate up/down, R/F or other keys to go up/down by 2 or | 3 jumps | paulkrush wrote: | Yeah, this has been covered in the past. Yeah, I should go back | and read the comments from then. It's still a fun site. | paulkrush wrote: | HN in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3089901 | But it was this site: http://labs.dinahmoe.com/plink/ | paulkrush wrote: | It should be https://plink.in/ But I can't edit the URL... | pimlottc wrote: | Just resubmit then, there's no penalty | pimlottc wrote: | Could use a bit of onboarding, I spent a minute tapping the | squares on the left and not understanding why it Wasn't doing | anything. But fun when I figured out I'm supposed to be touching | the area to the right to make sounds. | paulkrush wrote: | You can hold the mouse down to advance. This is all I have | figured out. | paulkrush wrote: | Click on the colored squares to change the sound | drewbeck wrote: | Cool as butts, dang. | psyclobe wrote: | Ok that was fun ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-09-04 23:00 UTC)