This is really cool, but I had complete silence in the room, and the sound on my computer was turned up to the maximum. My cat was lying on me. When I clicked on the screen, my cat (and I, too) got so scared that she scratched my legs. But it's a fun thing, of course!
Anyone has a general solutions for this? Lots of time that i open such apps featured on hn they're always on 100% volume with no way to turn it down and it blows up my ears... I'm using firefox and tried some volume extension but it was a 20% chance if it worked on the website or not
Man, those two first Ratatat albums had such a great sound. I’m not quite sure how they created it but I saw them play in a little club in London and it was every bit as full and textured as on the albums. I have a recording of the gig somewhere.
when I saw them live ~18 years ago they made heavy use of gradual fade ins (swells) with an ernie ball volume pedal, it does have a similar sound to a reverse delay effect.
Yeah, that was about the same time when I saw them. From memory they just looked like your standard 3 piece but had those lovely backwards sounding swells. I recall being really surprised because it sounds like the sort of thing you’d struggle to do live.
The default chords from left to right sound pretty standard in my ears: vii⁰, I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi - but maybe it's locrian if you take the leftmost chord to be the tonic, and a plain major if you take the second from the left to be the tonic?
Complete aside, but Jake of jake.fun is an absolute delight. I work with him over at Figma and he’s such a genuine person who makes little nuggets like this on a constant basis. He’s one of those people who make tech a fun industry to be in.
Very cool. It would be good to support multi touch, letting the user instantly switch to another noise by reacting to the latest finger. You would need to use viewport meta to disable page zoom as well.
How come it sounds like discrete notes even thought I move continuously? Like I can move around a bit and the note doesn't change very much and then all of a sudden it changes in a discrete jump?
Quantising the oscillator pitch into discrete steps like this is pretty common when it comes to synthesisers. Generally there is also a fine-tuning control that allows the user to offset the output by up to an octave. Makes it easier to not be out-of-tune with other instruments.
this is what i gather: up is noise, down are notes, left to right are different frequencies higher to lower, white dots are noise, color dots are sound frequencies, dots are a visual indication of what components the sound u r hearing is composed of.
The chord progression is i^o II iii iv V VI vii, which are the successive triads of a locrian scale, which is like a major scale but you start from the 7th note of the scale (ti). In this case, use A flat major, but start on G.
Absolutely excellent. It bought me much joy to have a pad like this (that used to cost me money) pop up on the front page of HN to stick my finger into.
No, and that was not a limitation for me. Restrictions often lead to more creativity. Embrace that.
but at the same time a multitouch version would be cool. Why don’t you make one?
Also, the author needs to add something like user select none on touchscreen and make it aggressive because otherwise iOS Likes to select anything You tap too long. iOS is sticky and easy and eager to please like that ha ha ha!
These are tiny hobby projects I've developed in the limited spare time I get. They serve as creative outlet and keep alive the fun in computing I first discovered many decades ago while learning the Logo programming language.
I'm curious to see what others here do to keep the fun in computing alive for themselves.
I struggled a bit with finding the right way of controlling this, but with some patience you can set up a cloud of nicely rotating particles, and try to reverse the overall direction of the swirl by adding particles that rotate in the other direction.
Thanks! Full disclosure: by the time this was done, the actual question that prompted this was long forgotten. I got a "huh, that's nice." for my trouble (:
Definitely not as polished, but I make silly visual things from time to time and recently published my favorite ones here: https://kaeruct.github.io/gallery/
Really cool. Related, I asked Claude something like "create a multimedia interactive web experience with audio and mouse interactions" a few months back and it produced something fairly similar. My favourite follow-up prompt was "Make it more Stranger Things" and it turned the background music - which it generated - into a pulsing synthwave sound.
I really need to post these art experiments as some are truly mind-blowing for a machine that can't see.
While I agree slightly, this could be just ignored if OT, I don’t feel like it needs to be downvoted to death. And to be fair, HN comments relating the article to personal experience is extremely common and a legitimate part of what HN is about. With only demo and no words in the post it’s hard not to wander, other comments here have done so. You could read the parent comment as being inspired enough to finish a latent project, which is perhaps the same feeling I get from most of the digital/generate/interactive art projects posted here: so cool it makes me want to resurrect mine. Meta topics that are interesting about that: 1- interactive art is often more fun to create than it is to use, and 2- many of us make our livings making and maintaining so much tech for our employers we run out of time to do it for ourselves. ;)
I didn't mind it, it inspired me. I've always wanted to play with doing something like that, but I've always found it difficult to work with sound and music; and even though I use AI for tons of stuff it never occurred to me that I could also use it to help me out with that. That said, +1 to sharing a link to cool things even if they are half broken, if you think it's cool chances are someone else also will.
Oh wow, I didn't know artifacts were shareable, and you can even take it to your own conversation to keep tinkering with it. I'm gonna have fun with this, thanks!
look I post stupid shit too sometimes but Dang gives me a break because occasionally I actually contribute. But you aren't going to get away with comments like this for long. There's a whole set of guidelines[0]--they should post them more clearly but what the hell, I guess the mods would rather you were introduced to the culture through "polite" comments like mine rather than getting a rulebook thrown at you.
Look man, 4chan is way cooler, and the culture there is way better. But, you know, its like Dada on steroids in there. This has got just a little bit more structure, and there's cool shit posted all the time and it often gets to the top. It's up to you to participate; I try not too, it can be a huge waste of time.
