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New comment by tekstar in "Show HN: Collaborative live-coding MIDI sequencers in JavaScript"

tekstar — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 18:06:14 +0000

Hey everyone,

I've been working on a collaborative audio, MIDI, and video editing web app for the past few years and I'm excited to show you what we’ve built so far.

Sequencer Party is a collaborative audio / midi / video web platform. It supports WebAudioModules 2 (WAM2), a third-party plugin format—like VST plugins but for the web.

The demo session linked in the post is running a live-coding Javascript MIDI sequencer plugin. Press the ‘code’ button on a plugin instance to edit the running Javascript. Hit ‘Run’ to run your code changes. If you log in, you can save your session or individual plugin presets and other users can load them into their sessions.

It’s collaborative like Google Docs. Sign up, invite people to your project, and you can edit the same session together in real-time. Without an account, you can run an offline copy, and it’s saved in your browser's local storage. When you’re in an online session, the code panel is also collaborative with everyone else in the session.

The post link goes to a public session you can clone into your own project if you sign up, but if you want to join a collaborative online session with me, here is a link to a project I made that we can hack on together:

https://sequencer.party/users/invite/1af84830884292fecb834fb...

We’ve got a lot more planned for 2023—more instruments, thousands of factory presets and sounds, run the video in a separate window for VJing or render the audio/video to a file.

Thanks for checking it out and let us know what you think! It works best on a computer (not phone) in Chrome and Firefox.

Tom https://sequencer.party

Reference Links:

A tutorial on coding with Function Sequencer: https://forum.sequencer.party/t/getting-started-with-the-fun...

AudioDevCon 2022 presentation on WAM2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfDwzaM_lTE

WAM2 api repository: https://github.com/webaudiomodules/api

Note, the easiest way to start with WAM2 is likely to look at demo plugins

https://github.com/Brotherta/wam-examples

More WAM examples: https://github.com/webaudiomodules/wam-examples

Our collection of open source WAMs: https://github.com/boourns/burns-audio-wam

If you want to use WebAudioModules in your website or web-based audio application, we also curate a package of WAMs ready to use off NPM: https://github.com/boourns/wam-community

Show HN: Collaborative live-coding MIDI sequencers in JavaScript

tekstar — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 18:04:54 +0000

Article URL: https://editor.sequencer.party/sessions/0e87d610c4d08d750fb75e6be3ceb0bf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34357846

Points: 11

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New comment by tekstar in "Ask HN: What is your opinion of “unlimited” PTO?"

tekstar — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 16:39:58 +0000

same experience. the only person who used it in earnest was the head of HR. For lower tier employees it was much worse than a given X number of days - they had to request the time off from their manager and could (and were) denied taking time off.

New comment by tekstar in "Furby source code (1998)"

tekstar — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:46:44 +0000

If you ever took the fur off a furby you'd know it was pure sky net underneath

New comment by tekstar in "Tough time building components of a site using vanilla CSS. What to do?"

tekstar — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 04:45:00 +0000

hey just saw this, sorry - I think I watched the most recent full course for CSS and then the 2 or 3 hour course on flexbox. As well I watched the start of a few courses on website design.

New comment by tekstar in "Leaked Slack all-hands meeting reveals a ‘strong culture clash’ with Salesforce"

tekstar — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 04:40:10 +0000

I experienced 2-3k employees on a slack server. it was terrible. 99% of the traffic is noise, 1% was critically important information for me to do my job.

New comment by tekstar in "Leaked Slack all-hands meeting reveals a ‘strong culture clash’ with Salesforce"

tekstar — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 04:38:38 +0000

Same can be said about every company, acquired or not

New comment by tekstar in "Tough time building components of a site using vanilla CSS. What to do?"

tekstar — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 14:21:56 +0000

I took a few courses from Lynda.com to learn more css. It helped immensely and was free with my library card.

New comment by tekstar in "You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Firefox 108"

tekstar — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:33:44 +0000

The WebMIDI standard has a problem, which is that only the main UI thread can talk to the WebMIDI devices directly. So even if you schedule your MIDI messages in the audio thread, to emit them on the hardware device you need to pass them to the main thread and then emit the messages from there, incurring whatever delays imposed by the main thread as it handles user input

New comment by tekstar in "Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended"

tekstar — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 14:32:17 +0000

Around 2012-2015 we had someone on-call over the holidays do a redeploy every few days because of Rails memory growth at our now-IPO'd ecommerce giant.

This growth impacted every rails app back then, the popular ones more quickly is all..

New comment by tekstar in "Welcome to Hell, Elon"

tekstar — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 23:45:15 +0000

This is simply not true, because Twitter algorithmically pushes content you did not subscribe to in order to drive engagement. You do not have control over what you see, and are subject to the controversial subject of the day regardless of who you follow.

New comment by tekstar in "Ask HN: How to deal with burn out whilst in probationary period?"

tekstar — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:11:19 +0000

OP don't listen to this unless you care more about your employer than yourself.

New comment by tekstar in "Litestream live replication has been moved to the LiteFS project"

tekstar — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 17:14:58 +0000

.. which was the only feature set when litestream was released. Replication was added later and now removed.

New comment by tekstar in "12,000 Facebook employees, 15% of its workforce, may lose jobs amid quiet layoff"

tekstar — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:35:19 +0000

It's always in the last place you would think of looking

New comment by tekstar in "12,000 Facebook employees, 15% of its workforce, may lose jobs amid quiet layoff"

tekstar — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:44:23 +0000

So, I don't have a source to back this up, and without a source this will be worst of the rumour mill, but I'll say it anyways in case someone has a source to back it up or refute it.

A few weeks ago it was explained that Facebook is telling affected people they are no longer on the team they were on before, and they have X weeks (4?) to apply internally and find a role on a new team. So you're not fired, you just don't have a team and failed to find a new one, so.. see ya?

New comment by tekstar in "Take a break"

tekstar — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 11:52:17 +0000

Hey, this is me.

This is extremely privileged advice, but the only thing I managed to do to help was to have a second place to go to where I didn't work - in my case a little cabin in the woods. Going there on the weekend forces me to take breaks. If I'm at home I'm working. It doesn't help that I'm a solo founder. Work is very rewarding but it can also be all consuming. And there my piano sits untouched.

New comment by tekstar in "An odd discovery on Spotify"

tekstar — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 03:22:31 +0000

Robin sends out a weekly(?) newsletter with a variety of topics.

New comment by tekstar in "Software Automatic Mouth – Tiny Speech Synthesizer"

tekstar — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 01:01:40 +0000

I rewrote the main loop of this a few years ago to be re-entrant, so you can render N samples at a time. Synth projects wanting to use SAM should start somewhere like that probably.

https://github.com/boourns/SAM

I then ported it to Mutable Instruments Braids, a eurorack module:

https://burns.ca/eurorack.html

New comment by tekstar in "ESPHome – Connect ESP32 with Sensors to HomeAssistant"

tekstar — Thu, 26 May 2022 19:12:53 +0000

Can you explain this more? I've been getting into home automation and my wife would like programmable irrigation for when we're not at home. Did you interface with existing wifi valves or are you doing the circuit yourself?

I recently got rtlsdr to read my water meter so I can detect leaks, which is pretty cool

New comment by tekstar in "Spreading rock dust on farms as a climate solution"

tekstar — Sun, 15 May 2022 01:40:27 +0000

Probably a sort of crunchy effect, but hey it's high in minerals