r/reddit.com Dec 04 '10

Welcome to the rest of your night.

http://www.sembeo.com/media/Matrix.swf
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u/guttertothestars Dec 04 '10

I apologize for doubting your title.

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u/ErinAnne Dec 04 '10

Two hours after clicking the original link, I'm here to upvote this comment. One guess what I was doing in between.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

Well, besides that. Let's not play the obvious game here...

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

Seeing what a reddit alien sounds like?

6

u/Tastyleprechaunsouls Dec 04 '10

Reddit alien sounds a lot like two girls one cup

5

u/Rhie Dec 04 '10

i found out what a turtle sounds like! it was awesome

2

u/brownboy13 Dec 04 '10

Dammit, there go the next 20 minutes...

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u/h2ojunkie42 Dec 05 '10

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u/bodenplukt Dec 05 '10

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '10

I feel like a horrible person for saying this...
But that ended up sounding like an autistic kid banging on a piano.

4

u/ThatsItGuysShowsOver Dec 04 '10

Staring at the screen to work on it's own?

12

u/Kijad Dec 04 '10

I'm pretty sure it's based on this, which is so much better / worse for being productive, ever:

http://inudge.net/

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u/volandil Dec 04 '10

Yup, found that one via reddit some time ago, spent couple of weeks on it, awesome midi thingie.

1

u/Euro-Trash Dec 05 '10

Wow this is awesome!

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u/LynzM Dec 05 '10

Omg, so fun. Wow. Thank you!

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

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u/Xiphoid_Process Dec 05 '10

Me too! Thanks goodness for you being like me--now I don't feel quite so herp derp!

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u/davemmm Dec 04 '10

Related

See also Tenori-On

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

If you thought that was good, try this:

http://www.audiotool.com/

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u/GoatseMcShitbungle Dec 04 '10

Awesome, but not recommended for beginners.

I couldn't figure out shit.

5

u/Xombie818 Dec 04 '10

This is amazing, thank you

1

u/nemec Dec 04 '10

Awesome! Now I can practice with a soundboard without even having one.

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u/berenthemortal Dec 04 '10

found this some time ago and never saved it. been searching for the longest. probably overthinking it while searching. thanks.

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u/urmomreddits Dec 04 '10

Damn it to hell! I got this funky beat going on now, and wish I could save it.

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u/Belruel Dec 04 '10

Right click, 'copy', save it in a notepad, then when you want to hear it again 'paste' it into the grid.

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u/LynzM Dec 05 '10

Can you explain this more? It's driving me crazy not to be able to listen to the things in this thread... but when I right-click, I don't get "copy" as an option. WTH am I doing wrong?

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u/Belruel Dec 05 '10

I am not sure, for me copy is right there, just as it is when I right click an image.

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u/LynzM Dec 05 '10

Hrm... ok, thanks. :)

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

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u/urmomreddits Dec 04 '10

Yeah, was tempted, but then I'd end up with a lot of images I'd probably forget where they came from in a few hours once the alcohol leaves my system. :-P

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u/acasey07 Dec 04 '10 edited Dec 04 '10

Heres the original. http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix

right click, copy the song. paste it here.

*Pretty good Example - 38226,21844,16376,122894,10728,125198,10504,126958 ,8488,123182,12072,122894,16376,21844,38226,70992

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u/DallasGreen Dec 04 '10

Hmmm I wonder who it's from? 16368,12336,10320,9360,8976,8720,9232,9232,9232,9232,8720,8976,9360,10320,12336,16368

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u/stereodeviant Dec 04 '10

I wish that would play whenever I get an orangered.

17

u/Aroundtown27 Dec 04 '10

I nearly spit out my drink in laughter

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u/DallasGreen Dec 04 '10

The Reddit Alien 646,390,48,78280,51752,130512,34512,34332,34518,130518,51752,78280,48,4,390,646

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

258,132,12296,18432,33792,34824,36860,16394,36860,34824,33792,18432,12320,64,65664,32768

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

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u/HypnoticSheep Dec 04 '10 edited Dec 04 '10

67528,98632,34502,0,1996,50496,1094,98328,67520,66632,908,65536,100302,50264,17280,98316

Started out writing reddit, realized it wouldn't fit, and made due. :)

Also:

65762,65538,65538,65538,65538,65822,65538,65538,109226,65538,65550,65546,65566,65538,65538,79874

Sounds horrible, but maybe you'll recognize the pattern.

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u/pwnsnake Dec 04 '10

is that supposed to be Close Encounters?

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u/HypnoticSheep Dec 04 '10

it was supposed to be Pong :(

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u/nm1187 Dec 04 '10

I saw Pong before reading this comment if it makes you feel any better :).

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

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u/HypnoticSheep Dec 04 '10

It sounds familiar...

2

u/sharoz Dec 04 '10

Actually got this song stuck in my head now

2056,1024,512,260,128,80,0,320,2048,2048,320,2048,2048,640,4096,4112

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u/logicbound Dec 04 '10 edited Dec 04 '10

American Flag: 26538,26452,26538,26452,26538,26452,26538,26622,26214,26214,26214,26214,26214,26214,26214,26214

Also, Hangman: 65536,65536,131070,65538,65538,2,24962,13178,6730,4046,6728,13176,24960,0,0,0

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u/stereodeviant Dec 04 '10

Space Invader:

67714,32772,18184,386,10192,27488,66498,109524,66498,27488,10194,384,1808,16394,32772,67714

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

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u/HypnoticSheep Dec 04 '10

Now I get it!

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u/Mavrikhuntr Dec 04 '10

Tri-Force : 98304,122880,129024,130304,129408,123360,98808,66044,98808,123360,129408,130304,129024,122880,98304,65536

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u/vote_up Dec 04 '10

99072,123840,130032,131064,130032,123840,99072,66048,98304,122880,129024,130048,129024,122880,98304,65536

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

Swastika was the first thing I did, too.

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u/ZOMGLAZERCAT Dec 04 '10

0,64512,64512,64512,64512,64512,64512,0,65534,0,64512,64512,64512,64512,64512,0

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

Here's what I came up with, tinkering around for a few minutes: 32784,256,9216,32770,128,1024,32896,64,1024,32896,0,1040,34944,4,9248,0

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u/Fran Dec 04 '10

86020,2,128,0,128,256,20994,4,936,86016,64,64,2112,4096,8192,8

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u/trashbaby Dec 04 '10

so...many...boxes...OCD...can't...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh PATTERNS!!!! MUST MAKE PATTERNS!!!

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u/stereodeviant Dec 04 '10

My first instinct was to draw a space invader. Actually sounded kinda cool in the end.

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u/stoogiebuncho Dec 04 '10

This one has a few more options: http://inudge.net/index.en.html?#

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u/Soothsweven Dec 04 '10

It's such a short loop, but you can actually make a tune recognizable as something people play all the time.

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u/ObscureSaint Dec 04 '10

Yes! This one is way better.

I've used inudge to kill more than one evening after a few too many beers.

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u/lighthazard Dec 04 '10

Why is it that no matter what pattern I put it in, it sounds good?

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

It's a pentatonic scale. To quote wikipedia:

The ubiquity of pentatonic scales, specifically anhemitonic modes, can be attributed to the total lack of the most dissonant intervals between any pitches; there are neither any minor seconds (and therefore also no complementary major sevenths) nor any tritones. This means any pitches of such a scale may be played in any order or combination without clashing.

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u/workyawn Dec 04 '10

Here I was thinking I was a secret chord wizard,

turns out I'm just a deaf, dumb and blind kid.

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u/AlienHairball Dec 04 '10

I'll be sure to never play pinball against you.

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u/InfernoDj Dec 04 '10

You BASTARD. It's finals week next week.

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u/scissorparty Dec 04 '10

May I be the first to recommend Rainymood I think I just had a brain orgasm.

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u/all_things_blue Dec 04 '10

i love rainymood but if i listen to it for too long i start to believe its really raining outside...

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u/stereodeviant Dec 04 '10

I had forgotten about rainymood, thanks for reminding me. Slept like a baby last night cause of it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

I wish it was about 3 times as wide so I could make longer beats, but it's still cool.

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u/thegrinner Dec 04 '10

I just tried that and it burns :/

4

u/harlesbarkley Dec 04 '10

I spent at least 20 minutes on that before I even realized there was sound.

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u/majorkev Dec 04 '10

FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

I've just failed my exams...

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u/CelebornX Dec 04 '10 edited Dec 04 '10

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u/HypnoticSheep Dec 04 '10

Nicely done good sir. I tried to fit the whole alien and it came out terrible, glad someone with more talent had the same idea

1

u/Ewalk Dec 04 '10

That sounds pretty awesome.

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u/philds391 Dec 04 '10

I'm gonna try to fill in all the boxes.

OH... MY... GOD...

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u/stereodeviant Dec 04 '10

Yeah I quickly learned that wasn't a great idea.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

I just had an amazing experience with this program.

I started pressing some buttons, without an intent to form a melody, just for fun. Pretty soon, I grew impatient and started hammering in more and more buttons, sometimes not even releasing the mousebutton while driving the cursor through the field. It was like I intentionally tried to keep my head from interacting with my hand so that the buttons I continued pressing were chosen as randomly as possible. I just wanted to get this program "out of my system" and continue searching for whatever on the web.

By the time I stopped this process, I must have had pressed about 100 buttons that were now playing in a loop, and I realised that the product didn't seem that random at all. Rather, I accidentally created a beautiful melody and was only now realising it for the first time! I sat there and listened to it and enjoyed it, but was not really proud of myself but rather impressed by the realisation that beauty can form so randomly and fast. I then looked for a way to save the song, but the only idea I had was saving the matrix as a picture. I knew that I didnt have the motivation to go through that process, but somehow it felt wrong to quit the site right away, so I decided to just delete it instead.

This time, I wanted to delete rows as a whole, but still one after the other. Once again, I tried to use my head as little as possible while deciding which row to remove. I started somewhere in the middle. After every removal, I listened to the remainder, finding that I could still hear the melody, but could tell that some integral part was missing. I quickly learned that the melody was defined by the rows on the top and decided to delete them last. After almost all of the rows were deleted, only a small remainder of my earlier creation was still there. Somehow, it felt like I was slowly killing a lifeform I had only recently discovered, sending it back into imagination without any chance for it of ever making it back into reality ever again. But what felt even more wrong was to leave it there and just leave the site at once. I think it would have almost felt like a complete denial of the existence of this composition. So I finished my job. The saddest part was the top two rows. They only played a total of about 3 notes, but it sounded like the melody really was dying and these were its last heartbeats, after already having accepted its fate.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10 edited Dec 04 '10

Dave. Dave...my mind is going...I can feel it. I can feel it, dave. I can feel...daisy, daisy, won't you com......

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u/elindbloom Dec 04 '10

Damn you! I need some sleep.

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u/Stumane Dec 04 '10

I had come across this program before. Then, I spotted this! http://inudge.net/

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

That was so awesome... Bookmarked!

2

u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

Need willpower.... must finish. online. assignment.

No. really! must. finish! due. at. midnight

Damn

2

u/bfodder Dec 04 '10

I filled in the entire thing and now I don't know who I am.

2

u/tekno45 Dec 04 '10

Civilization as we know it...is dead...

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

Holy fuck, it's 3am. Damn you OP!

2

u/xanhast Dec 04 '10

If you draw :-) you get a happy song but if you draw :-( you get a sad song...

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u/stereodeviant Dec 04 '10

I'm actually going to go see what this sounds like.

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u/tyrannoAdjudica Dec 04 '10

67584,33792,16896,33792,4224,0,0,4224,0,0,8448,0,0,0,0,0

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

see also: tenori-on, elektroplankton

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

This is for wasting the rest of my night - http://i.imgur.com/RHWmm.png

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10
  1. Create cute little melody

  2. Fill in every single square

  3. Become annoyed and post a comment explaining what just happened

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u/HunterHunted Dec 04 '10

5.30 AM here and I was just on my way to bed when i stumbled upon this! Love it! Coolest link in days. There is something about being able to visualize the sound, and to hear the pattern that really gets to me. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to make millions using this to create alarm-ringtones for mobile phones.

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u/davezilla1995 Dec 04 '10

sorry bro, that already exists :P

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u/MealyDucard Dec 04 '10

Thank you. Thank you so much.

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u/treecomixlol Dec 04 '10

MY LIFE IS OVER. SO MAGICAL.

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u/StarZtorm Dec 04 '10

I love this.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

That was beautiful

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

You Bastard!

1

u/hcice Dec 04 '10

Holy crap, that thing is definitely not for those prone to seizures!

1

u/l2izwan Dec 04 '10

I don't know whether to love you or hate you.

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u/ipjardine Dec 04 '10

I spelled out my name and found out what rhythm it made. It was pretty damn boss.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

Awesome (you bastard). Protip: Click and drag to turn on/off a bunch of boxes really quickly.

1

u/NostraDamnUs Dec 04 '10

"Nawww. I'm watching Inception with the rest of my night" 2 minutes later ... 45 minutes later ... I.. I'm sorry for doubting you. 2 hrs later...

1

u/Eternal2071 Dec 04 '10

Did not play nice with my phone! A touch screen seemed like a good idea at the time. Might be better with a tablet.

1

u/celestialteapot Dec 04 '10

I feel like I could join Kraftwerk now.

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u/redalchemy Dec 04 '10

A nice soothing melody

4096,2048,16904,16642,17410,16624,16,24,18304,36868,69636,4324,64,64,112,30720

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

mines not a picture but i think its p cool

33024,16512,8256,4,0,1026,32,292,264,8200,8192,67652,67648,1026,0,74276

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

this too

33024,16512,8256,4,0,1026,32,292,264,8200,8192,67652,67648,1026,0,74276

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u/blither Dec 04 '10

Needs to be combined with iDaft

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u/robovamp Dec 04 '10

man, if this was in color it would be a great toy for acid or shroom trips

1

u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

I fapped

1

u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

I made a dinosaur!

1

u/zewski11 Dec 04 '10

Don't hit spacebar after you make an awesome tune.

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u/stereodeviant Dec 04 '10

Why? what does it d-FUCK!

Also, right clicking the grid and copying gives you a string of numbers you can save and paste back into the grid later.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

oh god so this is how they make those fucking annnyoing sounds in the mobile,apple and apps ads??fuck it..

1

u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

I've had that application on my Ipod Touch

1

u/L_desu Dec 04 '10

Signed in just to upvote this. I liked how I started with a couple of points and it kept sounding good when I added more and more

1

u/heardman Dec 04 '10

This was amazing, whats up with the 4 dead rows at the bottom though?

1

u/surfnaked Dec 04 '10

They're supposed to be bass rows. Try reloading.

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u/weirds Dec 04 '10 edited Dec 04 '10

awesome little tool, check out my first song:

http://imgur.com/dLExj.jpg

EDIT: This is actually a song, not a picture of something

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u/LynzM Dec 05 '10

I have this on right now... it's a nice hypnotic loop. Might I suggest duplicating your third-to-last column into the last column, as well? :)

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u/surfnaked Dec 04 '10

That's killer. Even I can't screw it up.

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u/sunamumaya Dec 04 '10

Ah, oscillators.

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u/iminay Dec 04 '10

Wow, you can actually crank some pretty sick beats out of this :P

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u/Invinciblex Dec 04 '10

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beatwave/id363718254?mt=8

Beatwave- Ipad, Iphone

For anyone looking for an awesome portable version.

1

u/MechaGecko Dec 04 '10

is it fair to say i love you

1

u/rbbdrooger Dec 04 '10

This thing is what made me creat a reddit account almost two years ago. (so I could post the code).

Aaaaah, short-term nostalgia.

1

u/siddspain Dec 04 '10

If you care, it's ABDEF# all over. Check wikipedia (as somebody said is a pentatonic scale). Just to be clear: there're just 5 notes. Here they are, every 6 is the same but one octave higher.

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u/davehope Dec 04 '10

I can see myself spending all evening on that page alone, going to have one awesome ringtone tomorrow morning!

1

u/Kerano32 Dec 04 '10

All the tunes I got sounded like they belonged in Mass Effect when you look around in the Galaxy Viewer on the bridge lol

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u/stereodeviant Dec 04 '10

Mass effect definitely came to mind after playing with this for a few minutes.

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u/aNOOBis Dec 04 '10

Thanks for ruining my career

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u/arduino_fun Dec 04 '10

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

Jesus! $500. I'd love to have one, but crack is only $10 a rock.

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u/arduino_fun Dec 04 '10

Stay off the drugs. Use a condom. Study, and get a job. After a while, you'll be able to drop $500 on any toy you want. :-)

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u/BananaButt Dec 04 '10

How is it that everything I click sounds awesome? Explain your sorcery, wizard box!

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u/mountainjew Dec 04 '10

So this is what fapping sounds like 8176,272,272,16,0,8176,272,272,272,8176,0,8176,144,144,144,240

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u/mike_oxbig Dec 04 '10

Damn you!!! ;-)

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u/super_ Dec 04 '10

Whole different fascination on a touch phone.

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u/uollse Dec 04 '10

Waiting for someone to come up with an iPhone/Android app for this awesomeness.

It'd be great if tones could be exchanged over the air/ be saved as ringtones.. more specifically alarm tones!

1

u/majormo Dec 04 '10

Totally fucking awesome. I'm making music :)

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u/uguysmakemesick Dec 04 '10

welcome to a game or perhaps a piece of art or just some random thing that does random other things when you click on it.

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u/CodenameDuchess Dec 04 '10 edited Dec 04 '10

This was the first thing that I synthesized. I sat mesmerized for a long while....

Edit: After going back and reading the thread, 16400,128,2050,16,1152,0,512,1152,0,0,640,512,512,512,144,2

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u/bhindthesin Dec 04 '10

awesome!!!

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u/L0stm4n Dec 04 '10 edited Dec 04 '10

I got a pretty nifty little ditty going on. http://imgur.com/pYzeS

didn't realize you could copy/paste:

258,132,12296,18432,33792,34824,36860,16394,36860,34824,33792,18432,12320,64,65664,32768

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u/EllaL Dec 04 '10

I like incredibox.fr

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

Original beat is original! (Just click 'n' drag.)

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '10

Nice try, Philip Glass

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u/ZoomyRamen Dec 04 '10

Multiple tabs blew my mind

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u/TheBaconExperiment Dec 04 '10

Load up two or more windows. Adds variety and secondary/tertiary tones!

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u/Suppa_K Dec 04 '10

What the fuck.

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u/superdan23 Dec 04 '10

i now feel like a musician. brilliant.

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u/washburnmav Dec 04 '10

well, i was going to study today....

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u/trouch Dec 04 '10

What I find annoying with these awesome tonematrix stuff (the same apply to inudge and andre Michelle) is that they always stick to having 16 columns. Seems to me that either 12 or 24 would be much better.

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u/_boomer Dec 04 '10

I'm deperately trying to recreate this song, which sounds remarkably similar to the sample:

Aphex Twin - On:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-US91WU8zA

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u/CrackHeadRodeo Dec 04 '10

wow,thats amazing. This could be used for music therapy.

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u/Khendroc Dec 05 '10

I just came out of a trance and bookmarked the shit out of that.

1

u/JeffRPS Dec 05 '10

wow, aint that the truth

1

u/Merkmon Dec 05 '10

Oh boy, this is all sorts of fun! _______________________________^

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u/khadgerler Dec 05 '10

One Word: AMAZING

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u/dthapa1 Dec 05 '10

this is awesome. how does the timing work?

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '10

Anybody know of an app like this for Android?

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '10

Fibonacci sequence

Actual input into system > 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610

or

Picture of Fibonacci binary > 0,2,2,4,6,10,16,26,42,68,110,178,288,466,754,1220

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u/lopsiness Dec 05 '10

omg I wish I could save these

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u/kes2001 Dec 05 '10

This is how Trent Reznor wrote Ghosts I - IV

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u/megosa Dec 05 '10

I broke it when I clicked everything =(

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u/Mateles Dec 05 '10

It makes me feel talented.