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Chrome Music Lab
- quadrangle 6y agoWorks perfectly in Firefox too!! Hooray! Disappointing that they stuck to standard equal temperament for everything but the harmonics and string-proporations stuff. There's no reason Kandinksy should be limited to the tempered pitches.
- the-dude 6y agoRelated, "Learning Music" by Ableton : https://learningmusic.ableton.com/ https://learningmusic.ableton.com/
- zigzaggy 6y agoCool, just spent 30 minutes having fun on this one. Great stuff!
- Bellyache5 6y agoThis reminds me of Mario Paint.
- namelosw 6y agoWow, it's fun! Reminds me of Pico-8 music editor. The monkey and the drum sounds really badass.
- uuddlrlrbas 6y agohttps://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/4906501010358272 https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/49065...
- crazygringo 6y agoWow. I've never actually used a live spectrogram, and it's really educational. Use the mic input option and try saying different vowels, or different held consonants like "mmmm" vs "nnnn". It's really interesting to see how the patterns of overtones change, which is what makes the sounds unique.
- cmurphycode 6y agoIt's also cool to try throat singing and watch the overtones change https://photos.app.goo.gl/DZxXKw6sKmxTJ9Wn9 https://photos.app.goo.gl/DZxXKw6sKmxTJ9Wn9
- enriquto 6y agothere are several spectrogram apps for your phone. It is really fun to have them "on" all the time and see what can be heard around. My favourite patterns are those of an old, rusty door, scratching the floor as it opens.
- PCChris 6y ago"Making Music but every sound is Chrome Music Lab": https://youtu.be/6t86lJ-N9jo https://youtu.be/6t86lJ-N9jo
- cmehdy 6y agoLevi Niha is really underrated. He makes music out of everything, takes on the weirdest challenges with a healthy dose of optimism, and manages to teach some stuff along the way without really trying. I don't watch his videos that often but he's definitely amongst the people making youtube as a platform worthwhile.
- pen2l 6y agoThat spectrogramme view really is phenomenal, so effortlessly fast even while being kind of 3d. I was talking about this the other day with someone, why don't DAWs push the spectrogramme view more forcefully, instead of the default wave view? There's so much more information to be gleaned in spectrogramme view than the waveform view. I'm trying to learn to sing these days, and I'd been wondering if this was a good way to practice a song: look at a vocal stem of the song I'm trying to sing, and observe visual feedback of the spectrogramme.
- mudita 6y agoFor everybody else who was wondering DAW = Digital Audio Workstation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio_workstation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio_workstation
- squeaky-clean 6y agoWhile a spectrogram shows a lot of useful information, it also kind of doesn't. Your ears tell you much of the same thing except with better subjectivity, especially as your ears improve. You can tell (with practice) if a bass guitar is too bassy, or has too much "twang" or sounds harsh and throaty. But if a spectrogram of a bass guitar shows higher than usual frequency content in the 800-1200hz range, is the bass tone too twangy for the song, or is it just right? The waveform view on the other hand will always remain useful no matter how good your ears get. If you're comping together multiple takes of the same section, or shifting tracks to adjust for phase-alignment in a multi-microphone setup. Doing this by looking directly at the samples is way less tedious than doing it by ear. Also, though it's probably not an issue today, I would guess CPU concerns are another reason why a spectrogram isn't displayed by default on all tracks.
- frabert 6y agoAnother issue I can think of is that spectrogram view inherently looses temporal resolution the more precise you make it in the frequency space.
- ncrmro 6y ago
- rjack_ 6y agoOn a related note (ah!) i found the Bandlab editor astounding. It's a fully functional simple DAW in the browser: https://www.bandlab.com/creation-features https://www.bandlab.com/creation-features
- grasshopperpurp 6y agoI like Bandlab. I wish the mobile version let you mess with sound effects, but otherwise, it works great.
- octernion 6y agoi'm curious what the intended purpose of these are -- very cool projects but doesn't necessarily showcase chrome (they work fine in firefox?). though maybe that's the point -- here are some awesome projects that showcase the state of the art in web in general.
- gauthamzz 6y agowow this made my day!
- jaimehrubiks 6y agoI don't know about music and I can be hours playing with this
- nine_k 6y agoI see how this could be as much fun as Scream Tracker was in 1992 :)
- skulk 6y agoThe "Song maker" tool is actually what inspired me to start creating music; I just randomly dragged my mouse around and found that I'd made something that sounded really cool. I've been playing around in LMMS[1] for some time now and hope to independently release some music at some point! [1]: https://lmms.io/ https://lmms.io/
- tonystride 6y agoAs a piano teacher I've been teaching online since March and the Shared Piano part of the Chrome Music Lab has been really useful for demonstrating various concepts!
- broooder 6y agoThis is amazing, but I wish they would do more, this is like 5 years old.