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Groove Pizza

by adriancooney on 3/22/21, 10:53 AM with 33 comments

  • by benzible on 3/24/21, 4:35 AM

    Cool video explaining the concept of "swing" using Groove Pizza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4EtsPf3X-I

  • by bentcorner on 3/23/21, 11:48 PM

    Looks like I can't "turn off" a pizza (for lack of a better term) once I've started using it.

    It'd be cool to be able to edit a pizza before it was being played, or save different sets and queue them up.

    I've played a bit of Fuser (by Harmonix) and it has a similar vibe. Not exactly the same but I think this could go in a similar direction.

  • by spacefiish on 3/23/21, 11:46 PM

    I think the buttons underneath the sequencer are supposed to be measures, but they don't seem to be working properly for me. Clicking on them once highlights them - but only sometimes. And then clicking on them again does not unhighlight them - but only sometimes. Other than that this seems fun, I want to try to get around this weird issue cause I'd love to play with this. Maybe I'll try Chrome (currently using Firefox)

  • by _def on 3/23/21, 11:22 PM

    Seeing a circular and linear visualization of a loop pattern side by side made me realize how it makes so much more sense to have it circular. Interesting.

  • by snorrah on 3/24/21, 1:31 AM

    Reminded me a lot about making music for Octavia, from the video game Warframe https://i.imgur.com/vkhymRv.jpg

  • by finger on 3/24/21, 9:51 AM

    If it was possible to change the volume of individual notes you could do some pretty sweet groves on this.

    Bossa nova: https://apps.musedlab.org/groovepizza/?source=pub&museid=z4A...

    Toto - Rosanna: https://apps.musedlab.org/groovepizza/?source=pub&museid=OO2...

  • by emmanueloga_ on 3/24/21, 5:11 AM

    If you like this concept and like to dig deeper there's Xronomorph [1]. Don't love Xronomorph's U.I. but it is an interesting concept with some deeper mathematical background around the concepts of "perfect balance" and "well-formedness" of rhythms. The site has some papers and links on those concepts, quite the rabbithole.

    1: https://www.dynamictonality.com/xronomorph.htm

  • by PhillyG on 3/24/21, 4:41 PM

    This was so much fun and so easy to have a play around with. I found it to be incredibly intuitive - as someone who isn't musically talented but is curious enough to just try stuff out

    After trying out the "rock you" special beat, I quickly managed to make what I think is a common rock drum beat - what I would describe as: dum ch dadum dum ch. Then while that was going, I started playing around with that beat - different variations of it, without pausing it at all. It kinda sounded like I was jamming! I carried on playing with it while it was playing the beats and had quite a bit of fun changing the beat and making a drum solo. Unfortunately I was just changing that one pizza - would be cool if you could set it to record it as you change the pizza. I went back and made a cool beat with four pizzas so I could share it here :)

    https://apps.musedlab.org/groovepizza/?source=pub&museid=3ge...

  • by yellowapple on 3/23/21, 11:10 PM

    Very nice. The UI (on mobile at least) could use some more labels for explanation (or maybe a quick tutorial), but having experience with other beat editors it was simple enough for me to figure out pretty quick: https://apps.musedlab.org/groovepizza/?source=pub&museid=x-b...

    I really like the cyclical beat representation. Makes it a lot easier to visualize how everything fits together. Would be neat if more DAWs, drum machines, etc. adopted this layout instead of the normal linear approach.

    EDIT: and I only now realized that you can click on the drumset icon in the center of wheel to change the instrument set: https://apps.musedlab.org/groovepizza/?source=pub&museid=q3I...

  • by JetAlone on 3/23/21, 11:56 PM

    Kind of fun, I find it fairly intuitive. It's been a long time since I messed around with anything musical. Here's what I came up with: https://apps.musedlab.org/groovepizza/?museid=vcfVeYzxT&

  • by visualphoenix on 3/24/21, 1:16 PM

    Pretty cool. Groove Pizza is definitely approachable and easy to use. I wish the samples sounded better.

    It reminds me of the Funklet web sequencer, which has some powerful features but is very unapproachable. I like that Funklet has an extensive catalogue of recreations of famous beats.

    https://funklet.com/ (examples)

    https://machine.funklet.com/funklet.html (blank)

  • by eye8one2 on 3/24/21, 12:27 AM

  • by totalZero on 3/24/21, 12:37 AM

    Is there a way to copy one bar to the other three without having to click all the little dots again?

    https://apps.musedlab.org/groovepizza/?museid=O-xZi0EgX

  • by circuit_ on 3/24/21, 3:56 AM

    I think there was an old iOS app that was like this. Can't remember it's name though

  • by fictorial on 3/24/21, 2:24 PM

  • by busterarm on 3/24/21, 12:45 AM

  • by Black101 on 3/24/21, 6:28 AM

    I wish that there was unlimited slices ...

  • by abgr-y on 3/24/21, 10:50 AM

    love the Ui its pretty intuitive

  • by alpple on 3/24/21, 1:17 AM

    solid work

  • by LegitShady on 3/23/21, 11:25 PM

    I hate the interface and have no idea what say the extra pizza buttons under the sequencer do, plus most of its other functions since we've decided against labels, mouseover labels, and instructions.

    This is a (simplified) euclidean sequencer where they hid all the labels and turned everything into pizza. It would be better with clear labels or instructions.

    but this one allows for audio and midi export so A+ on that. its actually somewhat useful.