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If anyone's interested in more examples, I spent last month doing a "thing a day" bunch of procedural music experiments with Web Audio. A couple of the ones tha

If anyone's interested in more examples, I spent last month doing a "thing a day" bunch of procedural music experiments with Web Audio. A couple of the ones that seemed to work: * tries to create a semi-randomized fugue: http://aphall.com/2017/12/advent-18/ http://aphall.com/2017/12/advent-18/ * jazz combo improvising over the title theme from Metroid: http://aphall.com/2017/12/advent-16/ http://aphall.com/2017/12/advent-16/ * generates a chiptune over the progression of Autumn Leaves: http://aphall.com/2017/12/advent-17/ http://aphall.com/2017/12/advent-17/ Caveat, they're likely too CPU-intensive for mobile devices.

pieterk 9y ago
Love your autumn chiptune! Is the project open source? It would be amazing to be able to play around with its parameters.
- fenomas 9y ago
  Thank you! I wish I could say there was a cohesive thing with tunable parameters inside those demos, but basically each of them is a separate blob of ad-hoc ways of choosing scales, rhythmic patterns, etc. The modular bit, which is reused across all the demos, is the bit that actually plays noises through Web Audio, and might be worth checking out: https://github.com/andyhall/soundgen https://github.com/andyhall/soundgen (If it's not obvious, there aren't any pre-made audio samples in the demos, all the noises are built at runtime out of Web Audio oscillators and filters and so on, inside that library.)
Mateon1 9y ago
I took a look at other days of your musical advent. I think my favorite is day 23. Day 4 strongly reminds me of the True Lab music from the Undertale soundtrack [1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y49b8aiQVBg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y49b8aiQVBg - Undertale OST: 83 - Here We Are
- fenomas 9y ago
  Thanks! You are spot on about day 4 - most of the demos began with trying to imitate an existing track, especially structural stuff like how many voices there are, how often they enter and leave, how often the chords change, etc.
sxp 9y ago
Very nice. I really like your chiptunes on days 15 & 17.
bringtheaction 9y ago
> Caveat, they're likely too CPU-intensive for mobile devices. Mobile user here. Would love to be able to listen -- could you make recordings of the generated music and put up links to audio files?

pieterk 9y ago

Love your autumn chiptune! Is the project open source? It would be amazing to be able to play around with its parameters.

fenomas 9y ago
Thank you! I wish I could say there was a cohesive thing with tunable parameters inside those demos, but basically each of them is a separate blob of ad-hoc ways of choosing scales, rhythmic patterns, etc. The modular bit, which is reused across all the demos, is the bit that actually plays noises through Web Audio, and might be worth checking out: https://github.com/andyhall/soundgen https://github.com/andyhall/soundgen (If it's not obvious, there aren't any pre-made audio samples in the demos, all the noises are built at runtime out of Web Audio oscillators and filters and so on, inside that library.)

Mateon1 9y ago

I took a look at other days of your musical advent. I think my favorite is day 23. Day 4 strongly reminds me of the True Lab music from the Undertale soundtrack [1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y49b8aiQVBg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y49b8aiQVBg - Undertale OST: 83 - Here We Are

fenomas 9y ago
Thanks! You are spot on about day 4 - most of the demos began with trying to imitate an existing track, especially structural stuff like how many voices there are, how often they enter and leave, how often the chords change, etc.

sxp 9y ago

Very nice. I really like your chiptunes on days 15 & 17.

bringtheaction 9y ago

> Caveat, they're likely too CPU-intensive for mobile devices. Mobile user here. Would love to be able to listen -- could you make recordings of the generated music and put up links to audio files?