While what I do these days for a living is as far from my ‘roots’ of web development as is possible to be, I still like to dip my toe in it’s waters occasionally, simply because regardless of the bad rep it used to get in the old days, JavaScript is a fantastic language for getting shit done quickly with insta- results.<\/p>\n
Also, Google, who are borderline obsessed with their ‘Chromebook’ project are trying to port as many functions as would be available to Real Programmers as possible, with the aim of most native features of a desktop to a browser, so that even a simple guy such as myself can play around with features that would have traditionally been out of reach.<\/p>\n
However, one of the W3C’s latest additions – Web MIDI – is of particular interest to me. As an incredibly amateur musician, I’ve always found playing with a handful of VSTs and Ableton Live is a enjoyable way to pass the time, even though completing actual tracks is becoming a challenge, thanks to the time poor nature of having young children.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, my mid-life crisis has spurred me on to buy the occasional piece of hardware, and to date, I have a few Korg Volcas, a Novation Circuit and, more recently, a Korg Minilogue to cock about within the evening.<\/p>\n
The discovery of the Web MIDI API, then, made me imagine a way of controling these via my browser in some way. In particular, the Circuit which, while it looks like a relatively simple groovebox, is in fact two instances of a pretty powerful virtual analogue synth\u00a0presumably based on the ‘Nova’ range of synths, including the Ultra and MiniNovas.<\/p>\n
Novation did enlist the help of Isotonik Studios to put together an editor<\/a>,\u00a0but by it’s very nature of being an incredibly deep synth, is still pretty dense. So I tried to write my version with big controls for my fat fingers.<\/p>\n I also figured that there would be no harm in writing some code that basically randomised every parameter available to see if I could make ‘happy accidents’ simply by touching a button.<\/p>\n Part two will go through how this was achieved, what tools to use, and\u00a0whether it actually\u00a0made any patches that sounded half decent.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While what I do these days for a living is as far from my ‘roots’ of web development as is possible to be, I still like to dip my toe in it’s waters occasionally, simply because regardless of the bad rep it used to get in the old days, JavaScript is a fantastic language for … Continue reading Fun with Web MIDI Part 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanmetcalfe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanmetcalfe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanmetcalfe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanmetcalfe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanmetcalfe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanmetcalfe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanmetcalfe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanmetcalfe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanmetcalfe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanmetcalfe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}