Beat Maker
Creative
drum machine
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How HN took it
10 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score +0.27.
Idea: 3 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun and responsive drum machine
From 3 comments
Really great, very responsive, fun, like the fact you can download your work in lots of different formats. Ace!
dmje on HNthis is really great, I like it!
hdb2 on HNThis is wonderful work. Thanks for sharing.
asimpletune on HN
Export formats are useful
From 1 comment
Really great, very responsive, fun, like the fact you can download your work in lots of different formats. Ace!
dmje on HN
Web app works well, not native-only
From 1 comment
Thanks for making this a web app, and not some app that only runs on half of the phones/tablets out there.
amelius on HN
ClojureScript choice praised
From 2 comments
Thanks for building this. Really inspiring and great work. ClojureScript is such an awesome secret weapon for building web apps. I started building a similar web audio looping…
marksholms on HNVery cool and quite fun. I love that you used Clojurescript. I played with it years ago and have been meaning to get back to it. One piece of feedback; I'd love an option to…
WesleyJohnson on HN
Objections
Generated beats feel too similar
From 1 comment
Dope! One thing I notice is that the generated beats are very alike. Yeah it makes sense to play snare on the 2 and the 4, and to have kicks always fall on the downbeat, but…
monneyboi on HN
Not very mobile friendly
From 1 comment
It's not very mobile friendly but on desktop it's a pleasure! The ability to generate waveforms feels pretty novel, well done.
ericyd on HN
Generated samples swap in mid-playback
From 1 comment
Love this! One thing I'd find frustrating if using this when working on music: "When beat is playing, get new sample for drum plays as soon as it generates". If "this sample is…
gabriel666smith on HN
Requests
Import own samples
From 1 comment
> Also, could you consider making each fourth (or first) column a very slightly lighter grey This could be a component logic; a row of drop downs for customizing the UI and a…
mockingloris on HN
Highlight every nth column for grid
From 2 comments
This is great fun, congrats! 2 small requests that (I think) would help with the UX: consider moving (or duplicating) the play button - maybe directly in the middle below the…
iamben on HNVery cool and quite fun. I love that you used Clojurescript. I played with it years ago and have been meaning to get back to it. One piece of feedback; I'd love an option to…
WesleyJohnson on HN
FX that stays on across cells
From 1 comment
I really like it, and the FX option is a really fun addition on top of where most people get to. One ask I'd have is for FX to stay "on" and duplicate what was put down for each…
weego on HN
Horizontal scrolling and adding bars one at a time
From 1 comment
awesome tool! would be more usable to scroll horizontally as one page and ability to add verticals one at a time.
sakrist on HN
Questions
How samples are generated
From 1 comment
Nice work! Nice that you also implemented an MPC-style swing. How do you generate samples? Are they also procedurally generated or are they chosen from a fixed set of samples? I…
thw_9a83c on HN
Support for odd time signatures
From 1 comment
Cool tool! I often play odd time signatures, e.g. I'm trying to program the drums for Rondo ala turk by Dave Brubeck (repeating 2-2-2-3 pattern). Can you tell me how I can do that?
RigelKentaurus on HN
Use with Strudel
From 1 comment
Is this able to be used with Strudel the code-based beat maker?
mclau157 on HN
Alternatives named
Strudel
From 1 comment
Is this able to be used with Strudel the code-based beat maker?
mclau157 on HN
Impulse Tracker, Renoise, OpenMPT, Schismtracker
From 1 comment