Show HN: I created instruments for people who have no idea how to play one(jamfetti.boondoggle.studio)
7 pointsby DJSnackySnack4 hours ago4 comments
  • rguignar3 hours ago
    Why am I good at this haha? It's very cool.

    "Every note you play is shifted imperceptibly to land on beat." That's so smart, has it been done before? Feels like aim assist in video games

    Makes me think of:

    https://www.instagram.com/lightinstrument/

    and

    https://mirelo.ai/models/audio-to-midi

    • DJSnackySnack3 hours ago
      Yeah that process of adjusting notes to land on beat is called "quantization." It's a feature that many music creation tools have, but I've really only seen it used after the fact. Instead, I wanted it to be front and center so that you can play live with the slight correction. It's like musical training wheels haha
  • vunderba3 hours ago
    Nice job. The notes quantized to the beats is similar to how arpeggiators work, or arranger keyboards such as when you change chord progressions.

    If you like experimental musical visualization stuff, you might also check out electroplankton for the Nintendo DS. It's an oldie but a classic.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroplankton

    • DJSnackySnack3 hours ago
      Oh, that's really cool, I hadn't heard of Electroplankton before. I'm going to check it out! I definitely see a big opportunity with pairing quantization with scales to let novices play well right from the jump.
  • blouis2 hours ago
    Yeah, very cool! What is making the sounds? Web audio API/tone.js? Samples?
  • compounding-erran hour ago
    this is really cool. Are you an actual developer? the studio seems to be owned by non-tech folks so if not, pretty cool...
    • DJSnackySnack37 minutes ago
      Hey, I am the developer. Our studio also make the Hemingway Editor, but this is one of our more fun projects.