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on edit: TWO OSCILLATORS
posted by Zerowensboring at 7:32 PM on March 11, 2015
posted by Zerowensboring at 7:32 PM on March 11, 2015
It's even wilder to have the same thing playing in two tabs at the same time.
posted by barchan at 7:53 PM on March 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by barchan at 7:53 PM on March 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
oh my god yes yes yes yes yes yes yes ACCCCCCCCCCCCIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 8:54 PM on March 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 8:54 PM on March 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
Gah, after Firefox choking on this, it's going to be the thing that makes me install Chrome.
posted by Bugbread at 9:52 PM on March 11, 2015
posted by Bugbread at 9:52 PM on March 11, 2015
Wild. Get it going playing something and then just click on one of your other open Chrome tabs.
Rad! What's happening there?
posted by snuffleupagus at 9:55 PM on March 11, 2015
Rad! What's happening there?
posted by snuffleupagus at 9:55 PM on March 11, 2015
It slows way the hell down when you leave the tab (due I assume to the browser assigning it less memory), so all I'm getting with two tabs is the shoes in the dryer effect as the beats don't really synch.
posted by Pope Guilty at 11:07 PM on March 11, 2015
posted by Pope Guilty at 11:07 PM on March 11, 2015
Ah, but you can use two foreground tabs without backgrounding either of them.
posted by Phssthpok at 11:18 PM on March 11, 2015
posted by Phssthpok at 11:18 PM on March 11, 2015
Let's have some AFX acid.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 12:50 AM on March 12, 2015
posted by a lungful of dragon at 12:50 AM on March 12, 2015
Safari no, apparently.
posted by Grangousier at 3:51 AM on March 12, 2015
posted by Grangousier at 3:51 AM on March 12, 2015
>Rad! What's happening there?
Not sure of the details, but it appears that Chrome still "polls" the other tabs for new activity, probably on a rotating basis so that tab gets a bit of processor time before it moves on to the next tab. The result is a slow play back. You may have noticed, for example that your metafilter tab will show (1) when a new comment to a thread is added - even if you don't have that tab open. I think that is a manifestation of the same behavior (inactive tabs still "working" on a rotating basis).
posted by spock at 3:59 AM on March 12, 2015
Not sure of the details, but it appears that Chrome still "polls" the other tabs for new activity, probably on a rotating basis so that tab gets a bit of processor time before it moves on to the next tab. The result is a slow play back. You may have noticed, for example that your metafilter tab will show (1) when a new comment to a thread is added - even if you don't have that tab open. I think that is a manifestation of the same behavior (inactive tabs still "working" on a rotating basis).
posted by spock at 3:59 AM on March 12, 2015
Tried this with my iPad last night, and it was unresponsive. Some of the buttons worked, but no sound was made. Too bad, really, cause that's a nice format for this toy.
posted by Thorzdad at 5:17 AM on March 12, 2015
posted by Thorzdad at 5:17 AM on March 12, 2015
It works fine on my Android phone. Interestingly it slows way down (but doesn't turn off) when the phone is idle and falls asleep.
posted by miyabo at 6:40 AM on March 12, 2015
posted by miyabo at 6:40 AM on March 12, 2015
My memory starved half slowed down thing sounds way better than the mess I made in the foreground.
posted by snuffleupagus at 7:54 AM on March 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by snuffleupagus at 7:54 AM on March 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
I've been ogling 303 clones (!!!) for months on end, so this site is particularly relevant to my interests.
Super-awesome that it works on an Android, too -- I'm sure I'll be mucking around with this and Caustic for weeks to come. Thanks so much for the post!
posted by divined by radio at 9:36 AM on March 12, 2015
Super-awesome that it works on an Android, too -- I'm sure I'll be mucking around with this and Caustic for weeks to come. Thanks so much for the post!
posted by divined by radio at 9:36 AM on March 12, 2015
audiotool is a cool thing in a similar vein for those who missed it previously
posted by juv3nal at 1:18 PM on March 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by juv3nal at 1:18 PM on March 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
This almost sounds absurd to me, so it certainly must to people older than me, but man I'm kind of jaded about in-browser 303/909 implementations. Hit me up when the step sequencer can control the filter parameters - yes I know a 303 doesn't do that but it would be a vast step in real usefulness for these things. Or when you have some real timeline/multi-pattern sequencing power. Or an in-browser modular, or at least a different synth.
posted by atoxyl at 2:19 PM on March 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by atoxyl at 2:19 PM on March 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
Or an in-browser modular, or at least a different synth.
I don't know about the other stuff you mentioned but Audiotool which I linked while it doesn't necessarily have a lot of synth components will let you daisy chain all sorts of effects processors to get as many different sounds as you're likely to want if you know what you're doing.
posted by juv3nal at 8:59 PM on March 12, 2015
I don't know about the other stuff you mentioned but Audiotool which I linked while it doesn't necessarily have a lot of synth components will let you daisy chain all sorts of effects processors to get as many different sounds as you're likely to want if you know what you're doing.
posted by juv3nal at 8:59 PM on March 12, 2015
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