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elialbert
I posted this a few days ago but since it makes noise I thought maybe non work hours would be better. I'm really looking for feature requests / bug reports / ideas and I'd appreciate if you took a look!
elialbert
oh and it only works on modern browsers on non mobile right now, sry :/ it taxes sound cards and browsers pretty hard.
maroonblazer
This is cool. The UI could use some polish. I like that I can do seemingly everything via the keyboard. I couldn't figure out how to get back to the main screen after editing one of the sample pads. The browser 'back' took me back to HN.

Nice work!

elialbert
thanks :) yeah it definitely needs polish. pressing enter goes back and forth I should try to make that more obvious.
jaquers
Getting a lot of scratchiness/audio artifacts on Chrome, Win 10. Anybody know if that is an app or a platform thing? Idk if it's just harsh frequencies? I'm just using the default tones.
elialbert
it is a known problem... the more audio nodes I hook up, the worse various platforms that aren't top of the line computers perform. and even then sometimes... I've basically decided to revisit this project in a couple years when the web audio api is better supported.
Kiro
How do you play it?

EDIT: You use "Space". It doesn't say anywhere though! IMO there should be a big "PLAY" button that's super obvious. The first thing I looked for anyway.

tibbon
I can't seem to get it to do much. It's a little less intuitive than I'd like. Would like to hit "play" when opening it and have it show me something.
elialbert
good feedback I will work on that. shift up and down to move around, space to play/pause.