[HN Gopher] Create epic music together with friends and strangers
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       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
        
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