| ▲ | Show HN: Strudel Flow, a pattern sequencer built with Strudel and React Flow(github.com) | |
| 37 points by moklick 6 days ago | 7 comments | ||
| ▲ | ericyd 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
The UI is very nicely built, but I found the actual music making experience very unintuitive. I really didn't know how to build my own thing from scratch. I loaded the Funky Beat preset (indeed very funky once I got it playing!) and noticed a few things 1. I found the play/pause indicator to be confusing. When I loaded it, the play buttons were all highlighted which I interpreted as an "activated" state. Instead they were all paused. I get now that it's a toggle, but my intuition wanted a dedicated "play" button and a dedicated "stop" or "pause" button, with visual indicators to indicate the current "playing" state of the node. 2. One kind of jarring experience I had was it seemed that the loop restarted any time I changed an instrument. In the Funky Beat present, I was changing the "popkick" sample on the Beats node and it made it seem like the beat was continuously breaking and then re-syncing. It would be much nicer if the playback timeline was immutable and the patch changed on the next available iteration. I think having a few extra items in the default state would be useful to hint to users how to use the software. Even loading Funky Beat by default would be a benefit so it's more clear how multiple nodes can interact. The UI is very clean and well constructed, I feel like there's promise here. | ||
| ▲ | dharmatech 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
For context: tidalcycles is a music programming language strudel is an implementation for the web For example, here's a Stranger Things inspired song in strudel: https://strudel.cc/?jq8RmPcjADF9#c2V0Y3BzKDAuNyk7CgpwMTogbig... | ||
| ▲ | dr_kiszonka 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Very nice demo of React Flow and I like the neo brutalism theme in the settings. Not sure if it is intended or not: on Android Chrome your "Pad" and "Beats" have no indicators of the current location in a sequence. Also, I think "Samples" or "Sounds" might be more appropriate than "Synths." Are you planning to continue developing this project further? | ||
| ▲ | hombre_fatal 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Super minor nit: Put "Live demo: <link>" at the top of the readme. Github's project url thingy is hard to notice tucked into a sidebar. | ||
| ▲ | 3shv 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Thanks! I was thinking it would be nice if someone wrote a post on making different rhythms in tidal cycles | ||
| ▲ | cma5 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
baa2 is the goat | ||
| ▲ | danr4 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
this is cool | ||