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What advantage does this have over a regular DAW (other than being free)? Wouldn't most artists not be familiar with all of the concepts inherent with using JSX

by Bahamut 10y ago

What advantage does this have over a regular DAW (other than being free)? Wouldn't most artists not be familiar with all of the concepts inherent with using JSX, and find it easier using a more traditional DAW? (FL Studio, Cubase, Reason, Logic, etc.) I get that this is a for fun project it seems, just seems a little low on the practical scale for an artist.

eric_bullington 10y ago
> I get that this is a for fun project it seems, just seems a little low on the practical scale for an artist. It's a very new project, I believe. Seeing what this group has accomplished with the Victory React dataviz library, I wouldn't discount it yet. I'll be very interested to see what they put together. Or it may just remain a fun side project. Either way, cool to play with!
coldtea 10y ago
>What advantage does this have over a regular DAW (other than being free)? Absolutely nothing, and wasn't meant to at all. The purpose of this is is not to be practical, it's to make some noise with React.
- thekenwheeler 10y ago
  Yeah, its severely limited compared to a DAW in almost every way. But its super fun to mess around with, and if you like React and the Web Audio API then its a cool example integration as well. My vision long term is that this will serve as a set of primitives that can be composed into instrument presets and have UI hooks so you can build something like a step sequencer UI or a drum machine.
  - mst 10y ago
    Have you ever played Rez on the Dreamcast? I kept wondering if you could do procedurally generated music from monitoring inputs so that you could listen to your production system. I mention this only because I've flailed and failed to even figure out where to start to do such a thing a few times, and what you're doing looks like sufficient fun that I'm actually tempted to try again. No promises I ever will or that I'll remember to tell you if I do, mind ;) Or, tl;dr: "I don't care if it's powerful, it actually looks like fun and that's awesome".
    - thekenwheeler 10y ago
      i haven't but that sounds dope. you should give it a shot!
ssalazar 10y ago
If you can script it with JS, that can be a huge advantage. Lots of interesting compositional ideas become available when you have a Turing-complete scripting interface, ideas that are extremely tedious to execute in a DAW. Having this all be accessible over the web is another advantage; not having to pay for and/or download a big heavy DAW to develop, collaborate on, or interact with your beats opens up a lot of possibilities. It will be a long time before something like this can compete with a DAW in terms of polish and breadth of sounds, but it still offers a lot of interesting musical ideas to explore.

by Bahamut 10y ago

eric_bullington 10y ago

> I get that this is a for fun project it seems, just seems a little low on the practical scale for an artist. It's a very new project, I believe. Seeing what this group has accomplished with the Victory React dataviz library, I wouldn't discount it yet. I'll be very interested to see what they put together. Or it may just remain a fun side project. Either way, cool to play with!

coldtea 10y ago

>What advantage does this have over a regular DAW (other than being free)? Absolutely nothing, and wasn't meant to at all. The purpose of this is is not to be practical, it's to make some noise with React.

thekenwheeler 10y ago
Yeah, its severely limited compared to a DAW in almost every way. But its super fun to mess around with, and if you like React and the Web Audio API then its a cool example integration as well. My vision long term is that this will serve as a set of primitives that can be composed into instrument presets and have UI hooks so you can build something like a step sequencer UI or a drum machine.
- mst 10y ago
  Have you ever played Rez on the Dreamcast? I kept wondering if you could do procedurally generated music from monitoring inputs so that you could listen to your production system. I mention this only because I've flailed and failed to even figure out where to start to do such a thing a few times, and what you're doing looks like sufficient fun that I'm actually tempted to try again. No promises I ever will or that I'll remember to tell you if I do, mind ;) Or, tl;dr: "I don't care if it's powerful, it actually looks like fun and that's awesome".
  - thekenwheeler 10y ago
    i haven't but that sounds dope. you should give it a shot!

ssalazar 10y ago

If you can script it with JS, that can be a huge advantage. Lots of interesting compositional ideas become available when you have a Turing-complete scripting interface, ideas that are extremely tedious to execute in a DAW. Having this all be accessible over the web is another advantage; not having to pay for and/or download a big heavy DAW to develop, collaborate on, or interact with your beats opens up a lot of possibilities. It will be a long time before something like this can compete with a DAW in terms of polish and breadth of sounds, but it still offers a lot of interesting musical ideas to explore.