TheActualWalko
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Comment · 2 years ago
If anyone here is interested in something that leans towards the Ableton end of the spectrum, we're building this: https://wavtool.com/
Comment · 2 years ago
If you're looking for a free app to edit MIDI, check out wavtool.com!
We're not open source, but our free product has pretty good MIDI editing for conventional use cases. There's also an interactive MIDI composition AI model.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks! It grew out of an old side project. Been full time on it since December.
Comment · 3 years ago
We’ve done it! wavtool.com
Comment · 3 years ago
We’re working on an app in this space over at wavtool.com with the goal of using AI to speed up the creation process and lower the barrier to entry. It’s effectively a DAW that can be controlled by a chatbot.
We’ve had pretty amazing results just relying on what GPT-4 knows about music. Without any special sauce it can write melodies and chord progressions and make sensible engineering decisions, and only occasionally misunderstands and starts writing in allcaps when a user says something is too quiet
Quite fun to play around with if you find this kind of thing interesting!
Comment · 3 years ago
Hey HN! Thought you might be interested in this. Not mentioned in this video but the source code for the synth is editable from within the app, so too with other plugins.
Comment · 3 years ago
Hey HN! Thought y'all might find this interesting.
This synth is a new feature in the web-based DAW that I've been solo-developing. You can sign up at wavtool.com if you're interested in trying it out!
Comment · 3 years ago
Haha thanks! The big things:
- React as the core of the UI, with direct DOM manipulation and canvas stuff whenever the React lifecycle is too slow. - WebAssembly for any audio logic that happens at least once per sample - Lookup tables for almost all math that happens at least once per sample and is more complicated than multiplication - Use Web Audio as an interface layer, but do everything else manually. (Web Audio tries to help a lot of ways but often winds up making things worse)
If you're curious about anything specific I'd be happy to talk!
Comment · 3 years ago
Super cool! I was similarly inspired by UE and built a node-based editor into my in-browser DAW project (https://wavtool.com/).
It really is an excellent interface paradigm. I expected it to be daunting to first-timers but user feedback has been alarmingly positive. Many beginners find this more intuitive than the standard sequential list of effects, because the node-based interface reminds them of guitar pedalboards and home theatre systems.
Comment · 3 years ago
If anyone would like to try this out with a pro-oriented in-browser audio app with webmidi support, I'm making one! Check out wavtool.com.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm working on a serious in-browser audio app which takes advantage of web midi!
wavtool.com
It has extremely good latency on Mac OS, absolutely good enough to play along with and compose music in real time.