Ok, this is incredible in an infinite number of ways.
I love it!
I'd be fascinated to learn what inspired this absurd keyboard layout!
Angel helped make a kite. It was a huge surprise. Very cool program, not helpful to today's billable hours.
I played twinkle twinkle little star
I dig it. Made music for 10 minutes. Needs effects boxes. Like one on those looper echo things
Love this site. I know I've seen it before but all my histories are drawing a bl nk
doesn't seem to work at all on firefox, but works fine on a chromium-derivative.
a warning would've been nice about a lack of support? ^^
Love the chat functionality :)) Very cool.
this is nice. I love the scale layout
I'm a big fan of digitpain (Jeffrey Scudder) and it is great to see him get airtime here. The tl/dr for Jeffrey is he make digital art, but first he makes his own digital tools to make that artwork.
For those that are new to him, be sure to browse to the top level (https://aesthetic.computer) and play around in the 'terminal'.
If you have a VR device, view Freaky Flowers in it.
How are the wave forms generated?
freaky-flowers was cool. How does it work?
Uhm what is this?
It just dumps you into a retro-ish environment but it's not really clear what it's for.
this is a cool thing
it doesn't work as well as you'd hope with a usb keyboard without n-key rollover (nkro), and because it doesn't eat control characters (but uses the control and shift keys for percussion), it has a tendency to tempt you to run unexpected browser commands by accident. did you know what ctrl-shift-a does in firefox? well, you do now
from the name i was expecting it to have some kind of pattern-recording and playback ability, which would make it possible to play music even on such limited input devices
the keyboard keyboard layout is not isomorphic the way the screen layout is; a purely horizontal keyboard layout for a whole octave (either a whole chromatic octave, maybe on the qwer tyui op() row, or just a whole octave of naturals like on a piano's white keys) would greatly diminish the problem with keyboard rollover
i think that, if you're doing an ortholinear isomorphic keyboard layout of 12-tet, especially for people to just mess around with rather than playing seriously, you might be better off with six notes per row rather than four. that way, perfect fifths like c/g are vertically aligned. on this four-notes-per-row layout, you instead have major thirds, which are not quite as desirable for people to stumble across as they're messing around. and fifths are kind of in the worst possible location, a knight's move. major thirds are still probably the second-best thing after fifths though
there are more interesting isomorphic keyboard programs out there; https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.gitorious.jamesjrh.isoke... (https://github.com/lrq3000/hexiano) is one free-software implementation for android
i suspect the paucity of waveforms in notepat is due to the fact that the web audio api only has a few builtin waveforms, all of which suck. but with software synthesis it's easy to get really interesting musical timbres. https://za3k.github.io/ha3k-14-synth/ is a demo i did with za3k which generates a series of samples in js (using an html5 api that is unfortunately deprecated without any adequate replacement). i have more notes on bytebeat at http://canonical.org/~kragen/bytebeat/, but it can be hard to get it to sound the way you want; other more tractable but simple ways of getting nicer sounds include karplus-strong synthesis http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/ks-string.c (one-line version in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/ks1.c), flanging http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/sweetdreams.html, and fm synthesis http://www.codemist.co.uk/AmsterdamCatalog/
(disclaimer: i know nothing about music)
love the project. made a blog post about it. why? so the seo gods give this project more eyeballs it deserves https://oransblog.com/aesthetic-computer/
Calling something 'aesthetic' as a direct adjective is not the correct use of 'aesthetic'.
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