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JKCalhoun 1 hours ago [-]
So want something like this but where the tracks are in the cloud.
I want to "check out" someone's drum loop and add a guitar riff. Check it into a branch.
Someone else checks out the drum+guitar, adds a bass line. Checks in.
"Jamming" with other people is one of the most fun things. To the degree that you can "get close" on the web…
RiffHub, anyone?
someguyiguess 11 minutes ago [-]
Yes. I’ve wanted something like this for a while. I’ve always wondered why there isn’t version control for DAWs. So many times I’ve spent hours editing a track and accidentally saved it without specifying a unique file name. Only to open it later and wish I could go back to before the changes that fucked it up.
sporkl 45 minutes ago [-]
I think that's what Soloist[1] is trying to do (unaffiliated, but I've met the founder)
That doesn’t look similar at all. That looks like an app for making loops on your phone.
serious_angel 3 hours ago [-]
It seems like the inspiration went from Audacity, and with great changes to the design and feel of calmness and solidity!
I've tried loading a file with XM format, yet the current state of the import logic stated "Unsupported". Is there any chance you'll support the format?
For example, the following artwork is radiating charmingly in VLC:
- https://cable.ayra.ch/modplayer/mods/!Others/DYNAMITE_-_Winamp_5.0RC8_crk.xm
And, thank you! very much for the experiments, effort, miracles... art you do...
pantelisk 3 hours ago [-]
Thank you :) I 'll look into it, I am a little cautious of bloating up the filesize (right now it's at 98kb of js and 10kb of css), but if I can make something work efficiently I 'll give it a go.
On an unrelated note, I'm a little surprised there is no good open source web audio tracker (like Renoise but for the web) out there yet...
dspillett 1 hours ago [-]
For that much functionality 98kb is hardly bloated at all by modern standards, impressively slight in fact, it could probably cope with some more.
Unless part of your fun is keeping it so very trim, of course!
pantelisk 30 minutes ago [-]
Yes, it's part of the fun. Original version was 65kb (with just the single editor mode and all the filters, mp3/wav export etc). But then having to add flac codec, tempo estimators and finally the multitrack mode, made it closer to 100.
When I started developing I was a little frustrated with how bloated the web felt back then so I took that direction, it's much better today though and it's no longer an issue, but I still find it fun to impose these constraints and try to work within or around them (there's this fascinating concept of constrained creativity)
sgallant 2 hours ago [-]
This is great. I need to do audio work this coming week and was dreading Audacity.
timc3 1 hours ago [-]
Try Ocenaudio - I’ve used pretty much every audio editor free and paid for and this is my go to for a free editor.
I also cannot understand why anyone would recommend Audacity.
Kaliboy 2 hours ago [-]
Have you tried Ardour? It's like a superset of Audacity.
throawayonthe 2 hours ago [-]
when have you last tried audacity? it's been getting friendlier
amelius 2 hours ago [-]
How much work would it be to compile Audacity for the web?
Agreed but it’s still not a proper DAW and suffers from those limitations. It gets very rickety when you go beyond a basic stereo mix.
vandyswa 1 hours ago [-]
What's a waveform box and how does one select it?
pantelisk 57 minutes ago [-]
It's the audio track in a channel. A channel is the horizontal strip, a waveform box is a piece of audio somewhere across that strip. You can double click on one to enter single editor mode, or single click to make it active (once it's active you can drag it around, apply effects to it, move it on a different channel etc etc).
Not sure why you remove the tooltips from deactivated buttons
46 minutes ago [-]
genericacct 3 hours ago [-]
Very nice. One feature id like to see is import of stem bundles as produced by various tools like suno or stemsplitter
ugh123 2 hours ago [-]
Is there midi support and vst support? I know that's asking for a lot =)
m0nit0r 2 hours ago [-]
Looks promisimg. Must try the next days.
argimenes 2 hours ago [-]
Makes me think of Quatermass ...
HuzaifaYasin 8 hours ago [-]
How can we add more tracks. is there a limit?
pantelisk 8 hours ago [-]
There is a little [ + ] button next to CHANNELS in the sidebar, it has no limit but right now so add as many as you like :)
It's using dom to render the multitrack waveform boxes currently so I would assume after a certain point it might start to slow down a bit. In the future might switch it all to be webgpu based to avoid such limits.
macwhisperer 6 hours ago [-]
this is cool thanks for making it!
yesbut 2 hours ago [-]
what is the theoretical file size / project size limit? what happens when the browser crashes?
pantelisk 2 hours ago [-]
I usually use it to edit audio tracks quickly up to 10 minutes long, though I have received nice emails from people who have used for 1hr+ podcasts successfully (though certain heavy operations wouldn't be very fun to use).
For multitrack sessions, there is the ability to export to a .amss file that contains all the settings, markers, tracks etc. For single track edit... it would just crash right now. There is already a feature for caching audio tracks in indexeddb (it's under >File), but honestly it's not a web api I have found to be super reliable. I don't blame the browser developers, because I 'm sure if it was more reliable certain websites would put it to use storing gigabytes of trackers on the user's machine :). For this reason, I haven't made it auto-save the session automatically yet, trying to be a good citizen on the user's computer, maybe that will change in the future if there's a strong need for it.
Also, right now there is no backend, once it loads there are no more requests made to the server, so it's bound to frontend limitations. This is by design, I want it to be an app that respects users, doesn't upload or leak information, no ads, etc, even if it means getting a small hit in functionality in other areas.
I think of it like photopea/pixlr are to photoshop. Quick and easy to use, get you at 90% of the way. If somebody wants to do a serious operation, then by all means go for a paid desktop pro-daw solution :)
I want to "check out" someone's drum loop and add a guitar riff. Check it into a branch.
Someone else checks out the drum+guitar, adds a bass line. Checks in.
"Jamming" with other people is one of the most fun things. To the degree that you can "get close" on the web…
RiffHub, anyone?
[1]: https://www.soloistapp.com/
On an unrelated note, I'm a little surprised there is no good open source web audio tracker (like Renoise but for the web) out there yet...
Unless part of your fun is keeping it so very trim, of course!
When I started developing I was a little frustrated with how bloated the web felt back then so I took that direction, it's much better today though and it's no longer an issue, but I still find it fun to impose these constraints and try to work within or around them (there's this fascinating concept of constrained creativity)
I also cannot understand why anyone would recommend Audacity.
(I'm a bit behind on web technologies nowadays)
Sorry still working on improving the UX :)
EDIT: There's a short video here - https://x.com/pkalogiros/status/2053492761350046032
It's using dom to render the multitrack waveform boxes currently so I would assume after a certain point it might start to slow down a bit. In the future might switch it all to be webgpu based to avoid such limits.
For multitrack sessions, there is the ability to export to a .amss file that contains all the settings, markers, tracks etc. For single track edit... it would just crash right now. There is already a feature for caching audio tracks in indexeddb (it's under >File), but honestly it's not a web api I have found to be super reliable. I don't blame the browser developers, because I 'm sure if it was more reliable certain websites would put it to use storing gigabytes of trackers on the user's machine :). For this reason, I haven't made it auto-save the session automatically yet, trying to be a good citizen on the user's computer, maybe that will change in the future if there's a strong need for it.
Also, right now there is no backend, once it loads there are no more requests made to the server, so it's bound to frontend limitations. This is by design, I want it to be an app that respects users, doesn't upload or leak information, no ads, etc, even if it means getting a small hit in functionality in other areas.
I think of it like photopea/pixlr are to photoshop. Quick and easy to use, get you at 90% of the way. If somebody wants to do a serious operation, then by all means go for a paid desktop pro-daw solution :)
edit: reason