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Show HN: A mathematical approach to music gen(storyjam.tenpens.ink)
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Show HN: Story Jam, a music composition tool for Storytellers
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Show HN: Story Jam, Your Chord Progression Copilot(storyjam.tenpens.ink)
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by naltroc 2y ago
Hello! My name is Cortland Mahoney. I'm a music researcher, software engineer, and producer. I made Story Jam. This doc is intended to inform you of not just the product, but the centuries of work that have led up to its implementation
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by naltroc 2y ago
What does the ideal VST(s) look like for you? How would you like it to be broken down? For example, I tend to think of "composition" and "synthesis" as two very different topics. One VST could spit out chords or melodies
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by naltroc 2y ago
The request is valid; you just need the right tools for the job. Story Jam lets you design chord progressions without needing to know about music theory, instead offering intuitive terms like "lightness", "darkness", &qu
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by naltroc 2y ago
Whose Line Is It Anyway? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwIsvKpEgOA
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by naltroc 2y ago
> Is it really consent for those artists signing to labels when only three companies have total control of all music consumption and production for the mass market? This premise is false. I have made plenty of money busking on the street
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by naltroc 2y ago
I have written and performed many songs over many bands. At no point did anybody compare my work to any other artist's work, because it is genuinely unique.
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by naltroc 2y ago
how did you create this without committing grand theft musica
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by naltroc 2y ago
It is true that your ears do not perceive the higher frequencies in the same way (through pitch detection). However, if you put on a headset and apply only frequencies above 16kHz, you will distinctly notice a change in the pressure in your
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by naltroc 2y ago
When I use an FFT to view the spectrogram on YouTube music videos, it is very obvious that YouTube applies a lowpass filter at 16kHz on all videos (true since 2023 at least). While this does retain the majority of useful information, it e
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by naltroc 2y ago
unpopular hot take: subtractive synthesis isn't synthesis. It's a transformation.
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Additive Audio Synthesis in Rust [raudio](github.com)
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by naltroc 2y ago
piggybacking on the title to feature an album of generated music I released yesterday (using a different system I handrolled in typescript + rust): https://localaliennetworknice.bandcamp.com
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by naltroc 2y ago
but also, like, it only runs in certain conditions it sounds like here. Can this line of code be always running? What if the app launches itself as a background process? For a feature I just learned about so many questions, but it's Ap
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by naltroc 2y ago
can we please.
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by naltroc 2y ago
when did google get a TLD
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by naltroc 2y ago
as much as I circumvent paywalls myself, it does feel like overkill to setup software to do it always. Sites spend money to produce quality content. Somewhat related comparison, Is a human choosing to do this theft really better than a neur
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by naltroc 2y ago
Ring Modulation adds a constant frequency above and below the source frequency, producing non-integer relationships between the input signal and the new signal. That's why it sounds weird, because both of the new tones will almost neve
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by naltroc 2y ago
that delightful "abyss" is really just noise. as in white/pink/blue noise. Signals tend to sound "better" (richer harmonic content) when they have fuzz added. Convolution reverb is a great example of how mixing
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by naltroc 2y ago
Yes! We don't even have to listen to the audio examples to know that yes, ET chords produce beat frequencies. This is an artifact of the non-integer relationships created in ET chords that don't exist in the JI examples. A piano w
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by naltroc 2y ago
Here are three additional references on applied Just Intonation. The first book is abstracted away from composition and provides a more general description of tuning systems. The next two are composition focused, explaining how tuning syste
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by naltroc 2y ago
Would it be more appealing if we relabeled "harpsichord" as "pluck triangle synth"? :P
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by naltroc 2y ago
Yes, this should be noted. Naturally JI instruments include any instrument which has a continuous frequency domain, like trombone, fretless stringed instruments, and human voice. Instruments with keys or frets may be "bendable". H
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by naltroc 2y ago
the quest for perfect length yarn
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by naltroc 2y ago
Shoutout to alsoknownasrox, my favorite Sonic Pi livecoder! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXIvXrBQFkE
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by naltroc 2y ago
Found out about wheat based plastic when I bought some reusable food storage containers. This was not clearly labelled but instead a smalltext on the back of the package. As a person with an extreme gluten allergy, I freaked out and had to
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by naltroc 2y ago
(united states family, born and raised) I don't understand the desire for a large bedroom. My parents use the largest "bedroom" in their house to hold their bed. I use the smallest "bedroom" in my house to hold my b
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by naltroc 2y ago
super cool. I love to think of the spectrogram as a blank canvas, where you mix spectral masks to produce interesting synth sounds. This approach takes the "canvas" part more literally producing recognizable objects where we more

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