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Chrome Music Lab

by Sparkenstein on 8/4/20, 6:45 AM with 30 comments

  • by pen2l on 8/5/20, 3:06 PM

    That spectrogramme view really is phenomenal, so effortlessly fast even while being kind of 3d.

    I was talking about this the other day with someone, why don't DAWs push the spectrogramme view more forcefully, instead of the default wave view? There's so much more information to be gleaned in spectrogramme view than the waveform view.

    I'm trying to learn to sing these days, and I'd been wondering if this was a good way to practice a song: look at a vocal stem of the song I'm trying to sing, and observe visual feedback of the spectrogramme.

  • by PCChris on 8/5/20, 2:17 PM

    "Making Music but every sound is Chrome Music Lab": https://youtu.be/6t86lJ-N9jo

  • by the-dude on 8/5/20, 12:51 PM

    Related, "Learning Music" by Ableton : https://learningmusic.ableton.com/

  • by quadrangle on 8/5/20, 4:12 PM

    Works perfectly in Firefox too!! Hooray!

    Disappointing that they stuck to standard equal temperament for everything but the harmonics and string-proporations stuff. There's no reason Kandinksy should be limited to the tempered pitches.

  • by uuddlrlrbas on 8/5/20, 1:58 PM

  • by crazygringo on 8/5/20, 1:58 PM

    Wow. I've never actually used a live spectrogram, and it's really educational.

    Use the mic input option and try saying different vowels, or different held consonants like "mmmm" vs "nnnn". It's really interesting to see how the patterns of overtones change, which is what makes the sounds unique.

  • by rjack_ on 8/5/20, 4:36 PM

    On a related note (ah!) i found the Bandlab editor astounding. It's a fully functional simple DAW in the browser: https://www.bandlab.com/creation-features

  • by skulk on 8/5/20, 9:57 PM

    The "Song maker" tool is actually what inspired me to start creating music; I just randomly dragged my mouse around and found that I'd made something that sounded really cool. I've been playing around in LMMS[1] for some time now and hope to independently release some music at some point!

    [1]: https://lmms.io/

  • by namelosw on 8/5/20, 1:43 PM

    Wow, it's fun! Reminds me of Pico-8 music editor.

    The monkey and the drum sounds really badass.

  • by tonystride on 8/5/20, 10:27 PM

    As a piano teacher I've been teaching online since March and the Shared Piano part of the Chrome Music Lab has been really useful for demonstrating various concepts!

  • by Bellyache5 on 8/5/20, 1:04 PM

    This reminds me of Mario Paint.

  • by broooder on 8/6/20, 4:19 PM

    This is amazing, but I wish they would do more, this is like 5 years old.

  • by nine_k on 8/5/20, 9:43 PM

    I see how this could be as much fun as Scream Tracker was in 1992 :)

  • by jaimehrubiks on 8/5/20, 9:35 PM

    I don't know about music and I can be hours playing with this

  • by zigzaggy on 8/5/20, 12:53 PM

    Cool, just spent 30 minutes having fun on this one. Great stuff!

  • by octernion on 8/5/20, 5:09 PM

    i'm curious what the intended purpose of these are -- very cool projects but doesn't necessarily showcase chrome (they work fine in firefox?). though maybe that's the point -- here are some awesome projects that showcase the state of the art in web in general.

  • by gauthamzz on 8/5/20, 6:56 PM

    wow this made my day!