Show HN: Beats, a web-based drum machine(beats.lasagna.pizza)
96 pointsby kinduff14 hours ago21 comments
  • igleria38 minutes ago
    This is great! I can report a bit of odd sounds here and there on firefox ubuntu, but chromium ubuntu works perfect.
  • adrianwaj2 hours ago
    Very nice. Would be great to see a "tap bpm" instead of setting numerically, also a way to run offline, and lastly a way to submit drum covers of popular tracks that used say the Linn 9000 and TR-808 drum machines - with those sounds available!

    To really make it interesting, have a way to switcheroo the drum tracks of some cloud music to layer in one's own version instead.

  • skupig3 hours ago
    The share button doesn't show up on Firefox for some reason?

    Fun stuff! It would be nice to be able to make longer patterns. Maybe by having triggers that play randomly or every nth loop, like a lot of drum machines do.

    https://beats.lasagna.pizza/?name=hakkernuse&bpm=141&i0=K100...

  • utopiah3 hours ago
    Very neat! I had a https://www.crowdsupply.com/wee-noise-makers/wee-noise-maker... but I don't always carry it with me. I do have my phone though most of the time in my pocket so having this on, Web based, is great! The author of ToneJS is very kind, if the documentation wasn't clear you might want to reach out to help clarify it.

    PS: didn't check it but being a PWA to work offline would be quite neat, just in case the subway or train goes through a spot without connectivity.

    • djmips2 hours ago
      Fascinating, first time I've seen an open source project written with ADA.
  • myky22an hour ago
    Love it. The pixel UX reminds my of Roguelite games hehe.

    So easy to use. Would love to see some bass lunes in the future.

    I normally use my OP-XY when improvising.

  • zerr30 minutes ago
    Nice! What's the UI toolkit?
  • Voltage12 hours ago
    https://beats.lasagna.pizza/?name=lo-fi+dust&bpm=95&i0=K0100...

    Fun!

    I'd love to be able to add triplets.

  • bracketfocus9 hours ago
    Nice. I made something similar ~6 years ago, yours is a lot better though.

    https://erikburt.github.io/TSequencer/

  • lagniappe9 hours ago
    Lots of crackling and popping in firefox on macos, pretty cool otherwise
    • yellowapple4 hours ago
      Same, with Firefox on Linux (via Flatpak). The UI's great, though.
    • ofrzeta5 hours ago
      No crackling here (Firefox/M4 Air).
    • exodust4 hours ago
      I'm getting a little popping on Firefox Windows, which disappears if I remove the kick step on second row of the default bosa nova. Nice work anyway, the UI is immediate and instant play.
  • ajxs5 hours ago
    I like the interface! It's even better than this other interactive drum machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yRx-dd7Jcs
  • ferg-in-japan5 hours ago
    Wow this is cool! Inspiration to try making something like this myself. The 8-bit aesthetic looks great too. It would be cool if users could edit the tones - maybe a way to expand in the future.
  • Igor_Wiwian hour ago
    pls add examples from the Google Sheets for easy bootstrapping
  • nilram12 hours ago
    Not great waveforms, to my ear. Decent UI for a first cut -- trying it out, I found it really addictive. Makes me want to learn more about beats.
  • hmokiguess12 hours ago
    Nice UI but your examples don’t feel right to me. Bossa nova sounds nothing like bossa nova.
    • kinduff11 hours ago
      I agree, let me see if I can tweak it so it sounds a bit more like it.
  • cyrusradfar4 hours ago
    This made my day. Love this, thank you!
  • hmcamp9 hours ago
    I like it. I think I’ll eventually take a whack at making something similar. Thanks for sharing
  • brikym8 hours ago
    Nice. I love how you're not using a framework just pure javascript.
  • MintyPyro11 hours ago
    Very well made!
  • metalman11 hours ago
    heres an offline drum machine, "drum on"

    like the online one here as well, but does have static glitches.

    https://f-droid.org/en/packages/se.tube42.drum.android/

  • beratbozkurt03 hours ago
    can we control with keyboard?
  • juicytip11 hours ago
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