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Sonant: A tool for creating generative music based on random walks
- anonytrary 7y agoWhat a cool idea! Minor suggestion -- start/stop feature is pretty buggy. Pressing stop seems to do nothing, pressing start seems to start a new instance, but not stop the old instance, causing both instances to play on top of each other.
- zeta0134 7y agoStop appears to cause the old instance to play through to the end, but not start a new instance right away. So it works, but it's really delayed; I think most users would expect an instant mute from a button labeled "Stop." Perhaps a relabel would set better expectations.
- anonytrary 7y agoInteresting, I didn't test it that far. My pathetically low tolerance as a user kicked in beforehand. If it behaves more like "queue next", then that's what it should be named. Although, a queue next function without the concept of a playlist makes little sense compared to a stop/start.
- kgolid 7y agoThank you! You are absolutely right; the start/stop is not working perfectly at the moment. ‘Stop’ ends the music after it finishes the progression, ‘start’ immediately starts a new progression without waiting for the old to actually stop. Guess it’s worth to point out that this in no way is considered a finished product :)
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- kgolid 7y agoThanks for the tip, will check into that!
- ani-ani 7y agoSource is here: https://github.com/kgolid/sonant https://github.com/kgolid/sonant Some of the generative art on the author's website is really neat (neater than this music generator, IMO!) Eg. "Byrne proofs," which generates imaginary visual proofs. Whenever I come across these things, I dream about some kind of generative art museum. Definitely something I would subscribe to!
- g82918 7y agoI wish that changing the key would cause a stop and restart, otherwise it seems like a really nice machine version of continuous wind chimes.
- kgolid 7y agoIt finishes the progression before it applies the key change. I figured that sounded most natural. I might want to write that down somewhere, though.
- vermarish 7y agoFor a moment, I thought this post would be about generating brown noise and calling it music.
- superfamicom 7y agoLove it! A MIDI export would make this really fun to experiment with.
- asimovfan 7y agoI agree it's missing a MIDI export button.
- mdrzn 7y ago+1 for a MIDI export button.
- RootReducer 7y agoYes, please! This would be a really neat tool. There are already some Ableton devices that are similar. Makes me want to investigate how to build a device.
- forgotwhoiam 7y agoit would be more interesting to hear it without the violin in the background which appears to make it sound better than it is?
- kgolid 7y agoHehe, the underlying chords plays a big role, yes ;)
- dmos62 7y agoThis is great for an atmospheric game. It's so easy to adapt things on the fly that it could provide a dynamic atmosphere to whatever is happening in-game.
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- eurekin 7y agoI swear I already heard a ton of music generated this way on my spotify Discovery playlist... You might want to add licensing info. The output is good enough to use in video production as background
- tartoran 7y agoSeems like my 2 year old loves the generated music. I think toys with autogenerated music for kids is something I haven’t seen but would be quite a success and not too hard to do either.