[HN Gopher] Show HN: Building musical synthesizers with SQL queries
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       Show HN: Building musical synthesizers with SQL queries
        
       If you already know what bytebeat is, you don't need an
       explanation. If not, check my project :)  Here is how it looks:
       SELECT mono(output(             arraySum(x -> 1 / 6
       * running_envelope(30 * (1 + x / 6), time, 0.05 * x, 0.005, lfo(0,
       0.25, sine_wave, time / 8), 0.1)                 * sine_wave(time *
       80 * exp2(x / 3)),                 range(12))))         FROM table;
       To check how it sounds, find the examples in the repository
       https://github.com/ClickHouse/NoiSQL
        
       Author : zX41ZdbW
       Score  : 122 points
       Date   : 2023-04-07 15:29 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | chaosprint wrote:
       | very cool stuff! really inspiring. I am developing
       | https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol
       | 
       | and I am planning to have more bytebeat style of examples.
        
       | jmgrosen wrote:
       | This is absolutely ridiculous. I love it.
        
       | glaxon wrote:
       | This is beautiful. Well done.
        
       | woolion wrote:
       | Very nice!
       | 
       | And it does cover something that is often missing from these kind
       | of tools: some explanations to get started with it!
        
         | zX41ZdbW wrote:
         | Thank you! This topic is also new to me.
         | 
         | When I was doing it, I had an impression that everyone else
         | already knew about signal processing, electrical engineering,
         | functional calculus, music theory, and sound engineering...
         | While I only have a chance to touch it barely :)
        
       | ocal5 wrote:
       | Nothing useful, yet :
       | 
       | Etienne de Query ; Mod-Select * ;
        
       | harvey9 wrote:
       | Be honest OP, this was the result of a drunken bet, right?
        
         | zX41ZdbW wrote:
         | It was an attempt to prepare a topic for a conference named
         | "Doing weird stuff with ClickHouse" half a year ago. I already
         | had an example of generating pictures, and some memory about
         | bytebeat, so trying to generate sound was a natural next step.
         | But the first (hundred) attempts were unsatisfactory.
        
       | bob1029 wrote:
       | I think this kind of thing is very cool.
       | 
       | I did something similar for defining an image processing pipeline
       | using SQL queries (SQLite UDFs bound to .NET CV methods). Totally
       | unnecessary and performance was weird, but the elegance of using
       | SQL abstractions like recursive CTEs to accomplish fun things is
       | the entire point, IMO.
       | 
       | Thinking about the era of LLMs - the ability to quickly convert
       | natural language into a SQL query might open up some additional
       | fun tricks here.
        
       | IIAOPSW wrote:
       | Is it vulnerable to SQL injection?
        
         | mattigames wrote:
         | Rick-roll injection attacks.
        
         | thomoco wrote:
         | frequency modulation attack
        
       | Jolter wrote:
       | I love this quote.
       | 
       | > You could argue that modern AI, for example, Riffusion, can do
       | a better job. The counterargument is - if you enjoy what you are
       | doing, it's better not to care if someone does it better but with
       | less pleasure.
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2023-04-07 23:00 UTC)