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I don't know if you can call it 'play' when you are only influencing if the accordion is sounding or not. I would call it 'listening' to accordion by resizing y

by Siecje 14y ago

I don't know if you can call it 'play' when you are only influencing if the accordion is sounding or not. I would call it 'listening' to accordion by resizing your browser window. I understand that if the user did have control it would not sound as good, but you could do it. The size of the window vertically would control the pitch, so if I have a small sliver vertically it should be high pitched and if my browser window is tall(vertically) it should be low pitched. The speed of the change in size horizontally should be how fast the air passes through the instrument. If I have it vertically large and slowly drag it to the left it should let out a low drone, if I go quickly it should be a low burst, etc. Still very cool!

sdfjkl 14y ago
Resizing a real accordion only influences volume, i.e. the harder you push/pull the faster air flows over the reeds. And you inevitably get no air flow at all when you switch between pulling and pushing the bellows, so you have to time this right. It's a fascinating instrument.
k3n 14y ago
And then you could map the keyboard to the rest of the inputs, and have a workable instrument....that 'fork on github' link is tempting.
PavlovsCat 14y ago
It really needs an accordion soft-synth, and when you change direction (and/or when you start to slow down?), to play the next note in the song... as you said, with volume depending on movement speed (and maybe current position also affecting the sound a little). In short, what we need is an VST to javascript bridge haha. And then make a litte plugin out of it, so this can be put on all websites; using a canonical CDN location would even mean everybody has it cached all the time, so there'd be no downside to doing that. I have been wondering what the web 3.0 would look like for a while now, but I asked the wrong question.... what does it sound like, that is what matters.

by Siecje 14y ago

sdfjkl 14y ago

Resizing a real accordion only influences volume, i.e. the harder you push/pull the faster air flows over the reeds. And you inevitably get no air flow at all when you switch between pulling and pushing the bellows, so you have to time this right. It's a fascinating instrument.

k3n 14y ago

And then you could map the keyboard to the rest of the inputs, and have a workable instrument....that 'fork on github' link is tempting.

PavlovsCat 14y ago

It really needs an accordion soft-synth, and when you change direction (and/or when you start to slow down?), to play the next note in the song... as you said, with volume depending on movement speed (and maybe current position also affecting the sound a little). In short, what we need is an VST to javascript bridge haha. And then make a litte plugin out of it, so this can be put on all websites; using a canonical CDN location would even mean everybody has it cached all the time, so there'd be no downside to doing that. I have been wondering what the web 3.0 would look like for a while now, but I asked the wrong question.... what does it sound like, that is what matters.