Comment by ctrager
6 years ago
Please forgive me for being self-centered. I DO think AudioMass is great. I'm running it locally and I even contributed by posting a legit issue in github. But here's the self-centered part: The other day I posted a "Show HN" for something web audio related that I wrote and got crickets so I'd like to try again: https://ctrager.github.io/music_tools. Especially check out "Pitch Detector". All three tools are standalone single HTML files that don't need a server.
Part of your problem is that you submitted a list (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). If you email hn@ycombinator.com we can give you some tips on how to repost!
Edit: another way I like to look at this is that HN itself is a list, and posting a list to a list adds a layer of indirection that mostly never gets traversed.
These are interesting tools. Pitch detector didn't seem to work too well for me but no doubt my bad singing. You could probably just show both clefs with the relevant clef symbol at the beginning rather than making it an option. For the beat detector, it would be interesting to see average distance from the beat in order to try to improve. It could be a game following a rhythm easily.
Think for HN you probably need a quick demo that will attract more of the large number of people who are not necessarily going to use this tool long term. Give people a hook. Also keep trying, because it's pretty random what gets voted up on any one day. I think with some development and innovation this could be a useful tool. You've also not got any contact info which makes it harder for interested people to get in touch if they like your stuff.
I can't really make it work with singing either, but it works well when I play violin. My motivation is just pitch, to give feedback to me playing violin or my wife trying to learn viola.
Check out "Intonia", works brilliantly with stringed instruments
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All the tools have links at the bottom to their respective github repos, so contact via github.
I actually looked into code of your metronome to see how did you solve timing issues. I once tried to implement drum machine in JS and run into that setTimeout/setInterval are very very relaxed about precision.