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Show HN: Synesthesia, make noise music with a colorpicker (visualnoise.ca)

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This is a (silly, little) app which lets you make noise music using a color picker as an instrument. When you click on a specific point in the color picker, a bit of JavaScript maps the binary representation of the clicked-on color's hex-code to a "chord" in the 24 tone-equal-temperament scale. That chord is then played back using a throttled audio generation method which was implemented via Tone.js.

NOTE! Turn the volume way down before using the site. It is noise music. :)

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mcjiggerlog
RIP my phone's speakers. Maybe I should have read the post first..
hecanjog
Lovely! Edit: you might want to consider adding a limiter to the output, it makes a lovely crackling effect but it's easy to flatline the output until it fizzles out completely, it'd be more curious to hear the denser textures.
christopherscot
oh my god, so LOUD lol - i didn't read the post just clicked the link LMAO
bitwize
That's cool. I've been playing through the Quake Brutalist Jam collections recently, and this sounds almost like ambient music from one of those maps.
zenmac
What is the LICENSE?