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Show HN: Super Looper – Disco Sequencer App
- niix 12y agoAwesome!
- deeviant 12y agoThis is insanely fun.
- noso 12y agoVery Cool
- nerdy 12y agoIs anyone else noticing latency? In particular, keypresses seem slow when another element immediately preceeds them.
- aikah 12y agoUnfortunatly,your app doesnt hold a straight tempo(in the browser),cool idea,and cool app,but useless if that precondition is not met. The problem is that even if you trigger something precisely with javascript,the way some browsers handle audio make sequencing totally unreliable.
- lukasm 12y agoYeah I have this problem as well. It's very CPU intensive.
- vlunkr 12y agoYeah that was frustrating. Very cool tool though!
- catshirt 12y ago"useless" seems a little extreme. the tool is fun and fluid enough that even if it were to vary within 20bpm i would still use it to get stuff out of my head. prototyping. for what it is, i think the usability issues are more severe (no quantization, inability to modify a sequence, no pre-roll or indicator of where in the loop you are recording, can't seem to play over another track without recording).
- danellis 12y agoSeems to be lacking any way of knowing where you are in the pattern.
- jack-r-abbit 12y agoVisible grid lines would be great. It seems there is a 5x2 grid since you can use the Q-P keys on a QWERTY keyboard to access them. Q-T is the top 5 and Y-P is the bottom 5. I found the keys to work much better for more accurate placement and timing.
- ryanwhitney 12y agoAwesome stuff. Would love to be able to save and share à la jsfiddle.
- jtheory 12y agoSee the "record" button to the left of drums -- I hit it w/o realizing what it was for (and managed to record 5 seconds of just one drum going...), but it seems to let you record a session to share. Edit: here's what one of the save links give you: http://superlooper.universlabs.co.uk/OHu1 http://superlooper.universlabs.co.uk/OHu1 or another that's a bit more spare: http://superlooper.universlabs.co.uk/4wCk http://superlooper.universlabs.co.uk/4wCk The slightly-missed timings are a bit hard to listen to, but this is great fun.
- joshdance 12y agoNo way to know what keys to hit? Pretty cool though!
- mey 12y agoAnyone else getting audio clipping at the end of samples? (Windows 7, Firefox 31)
- nemo1618 12y agoA bit of quantization (automatically aligning notes to the beat) would really improve this. Not sure how computationally feasible that is though.
- jtheory 12y agoVery possible with Flash, Java, etc. in the past. In JavaScript, in particular if you're not using Chrome? Apparently just about impossible (I haven't seen reliable timing yet). There are a lot of downsides to embedded Flash, applets, etc., but it's going to be a long time until the things that were possible with plugins a decade ago (including decent timing, and even plugging your MIDI keyboard in as an input for a application like this) are possible without plugins. I have some faith we'll get there eventually; but it's a frustrating time during the gap.
- catshirt 12y agoyou have sample level control- why impossible? i've implemented naive quantization and MIDI control in my own web apps, without plugins...
- socceroos 12y agolinks or it didn't happen. ;)
- catshirt 12y agounfortunately i don't have the code for the step sequencer that used both implementations. but i can share some of the libraries i've released that stemmed from it: MIDI file parsing/writing/manipulation for js: https://github.com/kn0ll/midi.js https://github.com/kn0ll/midi.js MIDI control for js (requires a server component, wrote this prior to the web MIDI API): https://github.com/kn0ll/midi.io https://github.com/kn0ll/midi.io experimental 3d step sequencer (quantized, naturally): https://github.com/kn0ll/phon2 https://github.com/kn0ll/phon2 the issue i had with quantizing captured input is the latency between the device input and the time it's read into the program. this is why i said "naive" quantization. but it works fine for 1/8 steps, and 1/16 steps at most tempos.
- wuliwong 12y agohah, awesome! had a beat going in seconds :)
- pdkl95 12y agohttp://essej.net/sooperlooper/ http://essej.net/sooperlooper/ Thought it was going to be this (very fun) JACK-based loop-sampler. The name not exactly the same, but it seems close enough to be mildly confusing. Maybe change the name slightly? (I'm no expert on naming issues; it might just be my lack of coffee)
- woutervdb 12y agoAwesome. If you lower the tempo a bit, you can create pretty neat patterns.
- cnp 12y agoAdd a beat lock and this thing would be perfectttt
- vhost- 12y agoI'm going to turn you in for selling crack. I'm also going to blame you for me getting fired. Thanks for making the next flappy bird. At least for me.
- invisiblea 12y agoExcellent fun, but when playing with the keyboard, only one of simultaneous keystrokes is recorded.
- catshirt 12y agoclicking around the screen without intent has resulted with some more interesting melodies than i had in mind when i started. instruments like this are great for brainstorming.
- sideproject 12y agoyep. ok. so. thanks. for making me waste my time at work. this was. just. too much fun. :)
- jschulenklopper 12y agoReminds me of Figure, an app (for iPhone) by Propellerhead of Reason fame. See https://www.propellerheads.se/products/figure/ https://www.propellerheads.se/products/figure/.
- carl-j 12y agoI really liked to play with this. Being able to create "music" without knowing anything about it. Thought I'd share my tune with you guys and perhaps the person who made this sees it and finds it funny. Rather catchy if I may say it myself. http://superlooper.universlabs.co.uk/33un http://superlooper.universlabs.co.uk/33un