This website is an attempt to recreate a MIDI controller using the keyboard. Basically, an online launchpad, similar in function to that of Novation’s Launchpad.
Features:
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Uses Howler JS audio library for quick and easy audio playing across multiple browsers: goldfirestudios.com/blog/104/howler.js-Modern-Web-Audio-Javascript-Library
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Uses the Zip.js library to parse .zip files: gildas-lormeau.github.io/zip.js/
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First of the Year Eqninox by Skrillex sounds, obtained from Nev’s project file: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAXpBgkXt60
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Editor Capable of recording and playing back keyboard inputs at varying playback speeds
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Able to load and save songs to a database, only available to those who have registered an account which can only be done from the console
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mySql test database and Postgres production database
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Hosted on Heroku with free hobby plan
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Front-end written in complete JS with Ruby on Rails for the back-end, a few ajax requests to backend for information
TODO:
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Downloadable offline version, probably zipped JS, CSS, HTML, and audio files, will have to get rid of server calls
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Finish editor tools and put recorded parts of songs on main page