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music making
SHOW HN2020
59points
18comments
#985of 3,028 in 2020
Top 33%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
4 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.03.
Design: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun and neat tool for making music
From 3 comments
Thanks, a really neat tool to create some interesting music piece.
terrycody on HNThanks for making and sharing, fun!
_curious_ on HNthis is really good. this is the second project about javascript music I've seen on HN. I would love to learn more about music so I could take a shot at creating procedural music…
atum47 on HN
Objections
Autoplay sounds are loud and startling
From 3 comments
I suggest disabling autoplay when you open the link. I got startled pretty badly with the very loud and unexpected beeping sounds
parsecs on HNI just visited, post 50% volume adjustment (I love this sort of thing!), and immediately my speakers crunched with sawtooth grunge and other sounds. I don't think I've ever…
_adamb on HNUntil you click in Chrome, it's not allowing the playing of any sounds. At which point, it plays everything that's been queued up. Even at 50% volume, dozens of sawtooth samples…
reitzensteinm on HN
Blank screen on some browsers such as iPhone
From 1 comment
I see a blank screen on iPhone. It’s fine if you don’t want to support all browsers but you should show a message if the browser isn’t supported. For all I know it’s still…
snissn on HN
Requests
Disable autoplay
From 2 comments
I suggest disabling autoplay when you open the link. I got startled pretty badly with the very loud and unexpected beeping sounds
parsecs on HNUntil you click in Chrome, it's not allowing the playing of any sounds. At which point, it plays everything that's been queued up. Even at 50% volume, dozens of sawtooth samples…
reitzensteinm on HN
Add visual feedback when resizing notes
From 1 comment
Nice work! One small suggestion to improve the UI would be to use cursor: col-resize on the edges of the notes to show they are draggable and change the length as the user drags…
ioseph on HN
Default to a different waveform than sawtooth
From 1 comment
I think not having sawtooth be the default would also help a lot.
knaik94 on HN