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- dangsucksdick1 2y ago[dead]
- Trufa 2y agoThis is really nice, the ability to add more and make chords would be interesting, though most might be pretty dissonant I guess.
- ww520 2y agoLooks cool. Is it Fractional Brownian Motion or Simplex?
- JofArnold 2y agoReally cool. Related, I asked Claude something like "create a multimedia interactive web experience with audio and mouse interactions" a few months back and it produced something fairly similar. My favourite follow-up prompt was "Make it more Stranger Things" and it turned the background music - which it generated - into a pulsing synthwave sound. I really need to post these art experiments as some are truly mind-blowing for a machine that can't see.
- hackernewds 2y agoI dislike how you have directed the topic to yourself, and don't even post the thing
- tomalbrc 2y ago[flagged]
- DiscourseFan 2y agolook I post stupid shit too sometimes but Dang gives me a break because occasionally I actually contribute. But you aren't going to get away with comments like this for long. There's a whole set of guidelines[0]--they should post them more clearly but what the hell, I guess the mods would rather you were introduced to the culture through "polite" comments like mine rather than getting a rulebook thrown at you. Look man, 4chan is way cooler, and the culture there is way better. But, you know, its like Dada on steroids in there. This has got just a little bit more structure, and there's cool shit posted all the time and it often gets to the top. It's up to you to participate; I try not too, it can be a huge waste of time. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- JofArnold 2y agoSorry. You're right of course. Won't do it again.
- Unai 2y agoI didn't mind it, it inspired me. I've always wanted to play with doing something like that, but I've always found it difficult to work with sound and music; and even though I use AI for tons of stuff it never occurred to me that I could also use it to help me out with that. That said, +1 to sharing a link to cool things even if they are half broken, if you think it's cool chances are someone else also will.
- JofArnold 2y agoHere's a fun one I just made for you. Slightly inspired by OP https://claude.site/artifacts/698c26f4-2f60-428b-8ae0-ac7a299414da https://claude.site/artifacts/698c26f4-2f60-428b-8ae0-ac7a29... Took about 15mins of prompting and iteration. Need to press start audio and then drag your mouse around. The prompting is more interesting than the end result though, in my opinion.
- Unai 2y agoOh wow, I didn't know artifacts were shareable, and you can even take it to your own conversation to keep tinkering with it. I'm gonna have fun with this, thanks!
- grugagag 2y agoNo worries as long as you respect HN guidelines which you didn’t break.
- dahart 2y agoWhile I agree slightly, this could be just ignored if OT, I don’t feel like it needs to be downvoted to death. And to be fair, HN comments relating the article to personal experience is extremely common and a legitimate part of what HN is about. With only demo and no words in the post it’s hard not to wander, other comments here have done so. You could read the parent comment as being inspired enough to finish a latent project, which is perhaps the same feeling I get from most of the digital/generate/interactive art projects posted here: so cool it makes me want to resurrect mine. Meta topics that are interesting about that: 1- interactive art is often more fun to create than it is to use, and 2- many of us make our livings making and maintaining so much tech for our employers we run out of time to do it for ourselves. ;)
- grugagag 2y agoThis is fun and pretty.
- johnchristopher 2y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64liF2VuLxI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64liF2VuLxI Ratatat - Loud Pipes Almost there :).
- aidos 2y agoMan, those two first Ratatat albums had such a great sound. I’m not quite sure how they created it but I saw them play in a little club in London and it was every bit as full and textured as on the albums. I have a recording of the gig somewhere.
- etrautmann 2y agoI think their sound was created by time reversing guitar notes? I was never clear how it would be possible to play that live?
- madisp 2y agowhen I saw them live ~18 years ago they made heavy use of gradual fade ins (swells) with an ernie ball volume pedal, it does have a similar sound to a reverse delay effect.
- aidos 2y agoYeah, that was about the same time when I saw them. From memory they just looked like your standard 3 piece but had those lovely backwards sounding swells. I recall being really surprised because it sounds like the sort of thing you’d struggle to do live.
- SSLy 2y agoShare it kindly, I’m pleading you.
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- swiftcoder 2y agoThe source code is posted on the author's github, by the way: https://github.com/ja-k-e/noise https://github.com/ja-k-e/noise
- lozenge 2y agoVery cool. It would be good to support multi touch, letting the user instantly switch to another noise by reacting to the latest finger. You would need to use viewport meta to disable page zoom as well.
- al_borland 2y agoI was thinking multitouch as well, but more about chords than sequential noises.
- Jolter 2y agoThey are already chords.
- jonwinstanley 2y agoThe chords are the best part of this, makes everything sound good and in tune
- binarysneaker 2y agoAbsolutely. I sooo wanted to tap a snare or drum with my thumb while playing the chord with my index finger.
- nobrains 2y agothis is what i gather: up is noise, down are notes, left to right are different frequencies higher to lower, white dots are noise, color dots are sound frequencies, dots are a visual indication of what components the sound u r hearing is composed of.
- kamiheku 2y agoUp is a high-pass filter, down is a low-pass filter, left and right moves between different chords.
- abcd_f 2y agoMulti-tap is not supported it seems. Could've been a nice thing to have.
- jstanley 2y agoHow come it sounds like discrete notes even thought I move continuously? Like I can move around a bit and the note doesn't change very much and then all of a sudden it changes in a discrete jump?
- sva_ 2y agoHalf steps https://github.com/ja-k-e/noise/blob/main/NoteToFrequency.js#L33 https://github.com/ja-k-e/noise/blob/main/NoteToFrequency.js...
- atomicstack 2y agoQuantising the oscillator pitch into discrete steps like this is pretty common when it comes to synthesisers. Generally there is also a fine-tuning control that allows the user to offset the output by up to an octave. Makes it easier to not be out-of-tune with other instruments.
- ErigmolCt 2y agoThis is really cool, but I had complete silence in the room, and the sound on my computer was turned up to the maximum. My cat was lying on me. When I clicked on the screen, my cat (and I, too) got so scared that she scratched my legs. But it's a fun thing, of course!
- 867-5309 2y agoif only the titling were less ambiguous..
- deergomoo 2y agoI had my speakers muted and assumed it referred to visual noise, given the graphics
- glass-z13 2y agoAnyone has a general solutions for this? Lots of time that i open such apps featured on hn they're always on 100% volume with no way to turn it down and it blows up my ears... I'm using firefox and tried some volume extension but it was a 20% chance if it worked on the website or not
- lewantmontreal 2y agoSet ‘media.default_volume’ to 0.3 or so in about:config.
- bornfreddy 2y agoOn ff mobile, where Mozilla in their endless wisdom disabled about:config, the same can be reached via url chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml .
- cdfuller 2y agoIn Chrome I set all sites to be muted by default. I assume Firefox has the same feature.
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- raincole 2y agoNoice.
- keepamovin 2y agoThis is incredible. Do you know what you've done? You've created an instrument!
- emursebrian 2y agoKaoss Pad! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaoss_Pad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaoss_Pad
- john2x 2y agoDoes it work with multiple inputs on touch screens?
- keepamovin 2y agoNo, and that was not a limitation for me. Restrictions often lead to more creativity. Embrace that. but at the same time a multitouch version would be cool. Why don’t you make one? Also, the author needs to add something like user select none on touchscreen and make it aggressive because otherwise iOS Likes to select anything You tap too long. iOS is sticky and easy and eager to please like that ha ha ha!
- squarefoot 2y agoA possible improvement: add filter resonance control assigned to mouse wheel.
- cubefox 2y agoNeal fun, Jake fun, who's next?
- susam 2y agoWhile not as impressive, I have a small set of fun pages here: https://susam.net/links.html#fun https://susam.net/links.html#fun These are tiny hobby projects I've developed in the limited spare time I get. They serve as creative outlet and keep alive the fun in computing I first discovered many decades ago while learning the Logo programming language. I'm curious to see what others here do to keep the fun in computing alive for themselves.
- isoprophlex 2y agoMy son wanted to know why all planets move in one direction around the sun. https://strangeloop.nl/max.html https://strangeloop.nl/max.html I struggled a bit with finding the right way of controlling this, but with some patience you can set up a cloud of nicely rotating particles, and try to reverse the overall direction of the swirl by adding particles that rotate in the other direction.
- maroonblazer 2y agoLove this! Nice work.
- isoprophlex 2y agoThanks! Full disclosure: by the time this was done, the actual question that prompted this was long forgotten. I got a "huh, that's nice." for my trouble (:
- kaeruct 2y agoDefinitely not as polished, but I make silly visual things from time to time and recently published my favorite ones here: https://kaeruct.github.io/gallery/ https://kaeruct.github.io/gallery/
- nilslindemann 2y agoI like how this performs on my 700 euro Laptop. And it sounds cool. Well done!
- 4ggr0 2y agowoah my earplugs were at 100% volume, what a jumpscare. but nice tool!
- orko 2y agoThis is fun, and the whole website is full of funny and creative projects like this! Well done!
- butterfly42069 2y agoAbsolutely excellent. It bought me much joy to have a pad like this (that used to cost me money) pop up on the front page of HN to stick my finger into.
- pruetj 2y agoIf you’ve ever been by a Tesla coil in person, that static-y noise near the top of the screen is almost a perfect match.
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- hummusFiend 2y agolol
- BMc2020 2y agoI found making a white - purple - red - white triangle over and over pleasing.
- jedimastert 2y agoIt appears you can get different modes using search params <https://github.com/ja-k-e/noise/blob/main/Sound.js#L8 https://github.com/ja-k-e/noise/blob/main/Sound.js#L8> Using locrian as the default is wild <https://github.com/ja-k-e/noise/blob/main/Sound.js#L26C6-L26C13 https://github.com/ja-k-e/noise/blob/main/Sound.js#L26C6-L26...>
- arendtio 2y agoTo use it, do you have to add a mode parameter like so? https://noise.jake.fun/?mode=major https://noise.jake.fun/?mode=major
- jedimastert 2y agoYuppers.
- rav 2y agoThe default chords from left to right sound pretty standard in my ears: vii⁰, I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi - but maybe it's locrian if you take the leftmost chord to be the tonic, and a plain major if you take the second from the left to be the tonic?
- andrew-v 2y agoNice, you can also pass other modes and keys (root notes) as URL search params. It’s G locrian by default. https://github.com/ja-k-e/noise/blob/3c90aadf4db49505878a203dc5d99d403d2677e6/Sound.js#L24-L26 https://github.com/ja-k-e/noise/blob/3c90aadf4db49505878a203...
- jjcm 2y agoComplete aside, but Jake of jake.fun is an absolute delight. I work with him over at Figma and he’s such a genuine person who makes little nuggets like this on a constant basis. He’s one of those people who make tech a fun industry to be in.
- jeffreygoesto 2y agoReminds me of https://soundbox.cognable.com/ https://soundbox.cognable.com/ which we use to interest disabled children in touch screens, preparing for a talker.
- cvoss 2y agoThe chord progression is i^o II iii iv V VI vii, which are the successive triads of a locrian scale, which is like a major scale but you start from the 7th note of the scale (ti). In this case, use A flat major, but start on G.
- rurban 2y agoToo much melody, not enough noise. The brain needs to be stimulated better. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0z5lCJUAge5gHjCFGZNnqQ?si=Fgr5EUb4QbKQVoBiCCPelg https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0z5lCJUAge5gHjCFGZNnqQ?si=... (Spotify artists removed lot of their songs in between)
- hermitcrab 2y ago"Cloudflare, what is best in life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the Patent Trolls."
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- racefan76 2y agoWow, this is like something I'd find on the Bored Button website.
- aabbcc1241 2y agoIt doesn't work on firefox (no error message in console) and it works on chrome.