mstngl an hour ago

What‘s going on with all these code-2-music tools these days? See other front page discussion about strudel.cc [1]. Did I enter an established bubble or is there a rising trend? It‘s incredible, though, what people are able to obtain with it, especially when built-up during a live session [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46052478 [2] Nice example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GWXCCBsOMSg

  • c22 25 minutes ago

    Often an article posted to hn will cause a mini-trend as users who are engaging with the subject discover and share more related resources.

  • hecanjog an hour ago

    Computer music is as old as computers, live coding is pretty old too. (I posted this in the strudel discussion too: https://toplap.org/wiki/HistoricalPerformances) Maybe everyone doing live streams during the pandemic helped get visibility for live coding? It's interesting to see it kind of becoming popular now.

xnx 2 hours ago

Very cool. https://loopmaster.xyz/generate is super fun also.

  • stagas an hour ago

    Thanks! For anyone trying this, it's being HN crushed right now and hitting rate-limits, you should try again in a bit if you see an error.

    Also, there is an AI DJ mode[0] where you set the mood/genre and the AI generates and plays music for you infinitely.

    [0]: https://loopmaster.xyz/editor?aidj

999900000999 an hour ago

I really want something like this as a VST plugin.

I don't imagine making a full song out of this, but it would be a great instrument to have.

  • stagas an hour ago

    I'm considering a VST version but for now there is an Export Audio feature you can use to get a perfect audio loop to use with Ableton (or any other DAW) with oversampling up to 8x for great quality.

    • 999900000999 28 minutes ago

      How much do you need in donations to make it happen.

      I'll put 50$ down right now.

      • stagas 25 minutes ago

        Click Export Audio next to the title here[0], there is a buymeacoffee button :) tysm

        [0]: https://loopmaster.xyz/loop/75a00008-2788-44a5-8f82-ae854e87...

        • 999900000999 18 minutes ago

          I meant for the VST plugin.

          The janky way to do this would be to run it locally, and setup a watch job to reload the audio file into a vst plugin every time the file changes.

          • stagas 8 minutes ago

            The backend now is in WASM. I have a plan on how do this in a VST, I had done a version with a Rust+WASM backend in the past. My main concern is getting a Webview working for the editor, which is custom made, but I think that's also solved by now. The goal would be exactly the Web version working as a VST plugin with its real-time audio engine.

  • tscherno 28 minutes ago

    I route midi generated by strudel.cc in to my DAW.

  • duped an hour ago

    Shoutout to PACE who banned scripting in the JUCE 8 license terms so if you wanted to make this using the leading framework, you can't.

    • 999900000999 3 minutes ago

      Define scripting.

      I'm not going to test it, but couldn't you just load a json file with all params.

      Various instructions, etc.

      I can't believe it's not code!