It’s a neat game. I wouldn’t call it a great tool because it’s impossible for me to interpret the music from the blocks themselves without playing it. That being said I’m sure that wasn’t the original intent of the app!
I love the visual elements that drag the music out of the audiospectrum. As a visual person this speaks to me so much more than the traditional 2D way of representing music. It's really cool to see songs visually laid out in a 3D space.
What was your original intent with this project? I feel this would work very well for educational aspects, slightly comparable to sonic-pi, especially when it comes to how easy it is to make something nice.
This had a surprisingly emotional effect on me. Something about watching and figuring out the patterns the music would take and loop back on itself etc engaged me in a way I can hardly believe. 5 stars.
This is very cool. I can immediately imagine something like this being useful in copy of Logic or Live. Very nice way to make a score tangible in 3D, and there's lots of fun stuff you could do with such a technique and generative + audiovisual approaches.
Couple of questions:
1) Have you thought about split view? Split view would be nice (front and back), hard to follow the playhead through the loop otherwise as it becomes hidden halfway through.
2) What do you think about some kind of piano roll? The way you encode pitch into color with a keyboard works but it's a little incompatible with the piano roll idiom conventionally used in most DAW software. Would be very cool to have a 3D piano roll.
This is a cool idea. A first step before first party integration into a piano roll could be a vst with midi output. I know this can be done because of plugins like Xfer's Cthulu. I'd pay for that!
Split view is an interesting idea, hadn't considered that. I was thinking of maybe a cinematic playback mode though where the camera rotates and you can switch to different angles.
And yeah potentially some kind of piano roll representation could be cool to have alongside the 3D, so people can see (and maybe select / edit) cubes that way too. Not sure how to make a 3D piano roll though.
Sat down for a few minutes and managed to get Fuzzbuzz working in the sequencer, which I guess means I'm now as good a programmer in this as I am in Java
Question for the dev: What tools/libraries did you use for creating the UI and connecting it to Tone.js? I tried taking a look into the code and using whatruns but couldn't figure it out. Mind shedding some light on this?
The program doesn't really run at a constant rate and keeps stuttering so the rythms are all over the place. Too bad because otherwise it seems like a cool concept.
Ah I'm sorry you're having that problem. The audio is scheduled accurately with the web audio api (using Tone.js), but on some devices performance could still be an issue. The best experience is definitely with Chrome or Firefox on desktop/laptop (Safari or mobile devices may not work as well). If you think your device should be capable of running it smoothly (or the frame rate is good, but the audio isn't) it could help me out to know which OS and Browser you're using.
Does anybody know of anything that can make music like this without being 3D? Like, anything more "practical" in a sense? I think some of the tunes here are really nice.
[+] [-] garrettjoecox|4 years ago|reply
Here’s my newest creation https://go.ludotune.com/hui4
[+] [-] zabatuvajdka|4 years ago|reply
It’s a neat game. I wouldn’t call it a great tool because it’s impossible for me to interpret the music from the blocks themselves without playing it. That being said I’m sure that wasn’t the original intent of the app!
2D info is much easier for me to decipher.
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What was your original intent with this project? I feel this would work very well for educational aspects, slightly comparable to sonic-pi, especially when it comes to how easy it is to make something nice.
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Couple of questions:
1) Have you thought about split view? Split view would be nice (front and back), hard to follow the playhead through the loop otherwise as it becomes hidden halfway through.
2) What do you think about some kind of piano roll? The way you encode pitch into color with a keyboard works but it's a little incompatible with the piano roll idiom conventionally used in most DAW software. Would be very cool to have a 3D piano roll.
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Kinda reminds me of fugue machine https://alexandernaut.com/fuguemachine/
[+] [-] Cycl0ps|4 years ago|reply
https://go.ludotune.com/yxRp
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Great job!
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https://metasyn.github.io/learn-orca/
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[+] [-] km3r|4 years ago|reply
Pretty fun!
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