← Back to context

Comment by gregsadetsky

1 day ago

River (the software author) worked on this during his time at the Recurse Center and it’s been amazing to see him develop it all from scratch in C. (I contributed 2.5 lines of code on the web deployment/firebase side).

He’s a friend, but I am very unbiased in saying that the sample-rate execution of the entire grid seems like an incredible technical achievement.

One of the craziest (super super noisy but fascinating to watch) grids uses just a few “operators” that generate random operators and random values, and place them at random location.

That grid runs - easily! in the browser!! - at 1000 bpm. Forget 60 fps :)

I’ll update my comment linking to this patch so you can take a listen. It’s stunning, organic and very punk.

3 comments

gregsadetsky

Reply
kookamamie  1 day ago

I'm curious - was it two and a half lines of code you contributed?

  • gregsadetsky  1 day ago

    I was saying that in jest, ha. More like 2.5% of the code.

    Very briefly, I contributed the CI pipeline that makes git push build the wasm and deploy it to a micro server that sets the specific required headers. I used the deployment tool I’ve been working on with a friend, which is called Disco.

    There was something about wasm/the audio worklet requiring super specific headers - `Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy: require-corp` … Nothing too complicated.

    The other part I contributed is the loading/saving patches to Firebase, which lets people share compositions.

    But all of the audio, grid, ui is all River’s!