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Show HN: Jazzroom, collaborative real-time music hack in Node.js
- DTrejo 16y agoI like the piano the best of the three.
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- theschwa 16y agoThe notes had too much of a delay for me to play anything decently. I like the idea though.
- binarysoul 16y agoso I played the bass.. and though the notes are on piano keys, they're wrong (left to right should go up in pitch) also, if this is jazz, use fingerstyle bass instead of a bow (note: this is meant as constructive criticism to inspire improvement in the idea, not disparage it)
- sthatipamala 16y agoI knew I had the wrong type of bass! Thanks for the feedback.
- JonnieCache 16y ago'Slap bass' is another word for the type of thing you're looking for.
- rbxbx 16y agonope :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzicato http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzicato would be the appropriate style of playing.
- wazoox 16y agoFor funk, certainly. For jazz, not so much.
- JonnieCache 16y agoJazz is a pretty broad church. You can certainly slap a double bass. That was the only way anyone could hear it over the rest of the band before amplification was common.
- wazoox 16y agoI know you can slap a double bass, but this is not what people are talking about when calling the instrument "slap bass" usually. It's more Marcus Miller than Charlie Mingus, though both make music called "jazz".
- norova 16y agoFun little thing to toy around with, for sure. :) The delay did drive me nuts, though, but I imagine that is quite a difficult hurdle to conquer with such latencies. Reminds me of doing music production work before I could afford an ASIO-capable sound card.
- JonnieCache 16y agoIf there is anyone else out there thinking 'Yeah! It sucks writing music using my onboard soundcard!' check out Asio4All http://www.asio4all.com/ http://www.asio4all.com/ Its a windows package that has asio drivers for most people's shitty onboard soundcards, giving you lower latency and higher sound quality. It also has the capability to compose multiple shitty soundcards and present them as one asio card with multiple ins and outs. It's a great stopgap until you can afford a proper audio interface (or a proper operating system.)
- makmanalp 16y agoFor people who like this sort of thing, try ninjam: http://ninjam.com/ http://ninjam.com/ By the same dudes who wrote winamp.
- sthatipamala 16y agoTo everyone having concerned about the delay, it's not a network issue. It's because notes play on key-UP, rather than down. (Because we're silly like that). Let go of the key and the note will show up instantly. Sorry!
- akkartik 16y agoWhen I started playing with node.js I forked their sample chatroom application to add a shared jukebox. Put on a song in the chatroom and everyone hears it. https://github.com/akkartik/node_chat https://github.com/akkartik/node_chat
- shawndrost 16y agoswitch to using keydown (that's how real instruments work) and add a metronome, and this might be usable!
- alextgordon 16y agoThree suggestions: 1. There needs to be a way to get a reference to a room (so I can give it to friends) since I'm yet to find a room where anybody else plays anything. 2. Would be nice to have some way to choose or switch instruments 3. Needs more notes... you can probably fit 3 octaves in if you use the numeric and qwerty row for one register and the asdfg and zxcvb rows for another.
- krmmalik 16y agoI second all these points. At our company we have a "Play" session every day for 20 minutes. There's only 3 of us in this start-up (well, to be fair we're not really a startup, but thats a long story). We all work in different locations, and up to now, we've been playing either hangman, or countdown, or 'Bananas' (anyone remember that game) online. Well we've been co-ordinating over skype and video. Im thinking we could jazz things up a little and have a little jam session in our play time. Though, i wouldnt know how to best co-ordinate it. I cant play music to save my life. Im thinking maybe get some notes for a song, and then get the guys together and try to create the score? Suggestions welcome
- aba_sababa 16y agoCollaborative? No one else seems to be in the rooms I get assigned to...
- mcav 16y agoThe piano could really use more notes, and lag is a bit of an issue. But cool project!
- d0m 16y agoI've just played "rock around the clock" with some bass dude. So, if I understand, jazzrom is a HN 2011 startup that will create a way for musician to easily jam together? If it's that, it's an idea I wanted to build some months ago. (I chose something else thought) Feel free to ping me if you want to talk about it / opinion from a musician/tech who would use your app.
- mariuskempe 16y agoVery erratic for me. Lovely idea though, very much looking forward to using!
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