Social, collaborative music synthesizer. Manipulate the particle grid to create crunchy rhythms. Inspired by particle accelerators and cellular automatons like Conway’s game of life.
Note: Incomplete – Only the “Lead” instrument produces sound. Other instruments will CRASH the application (refresh to start again). Global effects have no effect :(
Source is available at https://github.com/davidgovea/phon . Latest version available at http://phon-dev.no.de (Note: please judge against the entered version! Let us know if having this here is a problem :D )
Works best in Firefox 4+, or in Chrome with Web Audio enabled (navigate to about:flags to enable)
Note: Incomplete – Only the “Lead” instrument produces sound. Other instruments will CRASH the application (refresh to start again) Global effects have no effect :(
jQuery, underscore.js, backbone.js, DAT.GUI, audiolib.js, Raphael, music.js, Express, coffee-script, socket.IO
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allanca
therazorbladeThe concept is interesting and could be fun. Need better controls (it is a bit tedious adding sounds). Need a way to remove reflectors and probably better to start without any. | |||
fixed now – thanks!
therazorbladeUpdated review.
timothytclee
foxxtrotSeemed to crash on anything but the “Lead” effect, which you note (I would have rather nothing happened than the app just stop). It took me a bit to figure out what was going on, but once I did, I found this to be a lot of fun. | |||
ChungInteresting concept that I enjoyed playing (on Firefox). Also an innovative use of browser features to make this work. I think if the application was more complete, there would have been more things to experience. I also don’t think I got a chance to experience the social element of phon. | |||
This has a lot of potential. I’m glad ya’ll are continuing development. Also, check out SoundManager2, it has Flash fallbacks for HTML5 audio. | |||
sventuredInteresting concept. Assigning note by note is clumsy. | |||
geradNice work on the browser detection front. Most people don’t get that level of completeness (but you lose some points because only the Lead instrument works). It looks really great, but I couldn’t figure out how to use it without reading the instructions above, so have to take away a bit for design. I could see it being a fun art project if I could figure out how to use it. | |||
Couldn’t get it to play for me, so I had a hard time figuring out what exactly it is. The idea of having a bunch of people create emergent sounds is pretty cool.