JSONloops

> Just not sure why you feel the need to package up this kind of trivial stuff and spam HN with it (under a different username, for some reason: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=marak) That account has been silent-banned for awhile ( as most of my accounts have been for flaming / trolling people). I cannot use it anymore. Notice all the submissions are missing? What would you like me to do? I don't understand why you are hating on me. I've never done anything to you or interacted with you in anyway. If you consider the work I did on https://github.com/marak/JSONloops to be "trivial", then I implore you to build your own multi-user real-time audio sequencer that work's in the browser and is written in 100% JavaScript.

> I'm surprised he didn't just write a 10 line script that wraps a command line utility and call it a day. Oh right, he did. What's up tlrobinson? I wrote a stop gap hack to get stuff done while I prototyped the JSONloops format and merge algo. tmpvar and h1jinx then helped out with writing an irrklang wrapper to get low latency playback when my side was ready (see: https://github.com/Marak/JSONloops/blob/master/vendor/play.j... ). Now that both things "work" I want to improve the project. Why the snarky comment? I'm just trying to have some fun with a little side project. :-(

The code is online, at github...http://github.com/marak/JSONloops An online demo where people can play with the software without having to install Node.js is planned, but there are several issues which need to be addressed first.

Installation is a little cryptic right now since this was built for Music Hack Day. If you just try to clone and start the server up, you will likely be missing the node-irrKlang library. See https://github.com/marak/JSONloops/issues#issue/4 for more information on this. We'll have an easy install option ready very shortly with node-sfml bindings.

Also available on Github: https://github.com/Marak/JSONloops JSONLoops is a multi-user audio sequencer reminiscent of Fruityloops. Audio playback is handled by node.js servers, while multiple browsers act as control devices. Songs are stored in the JSONloop format, which are simply nested JSON arrays. Usage: git clone https://github.com/marak/jsonloops cd jsonloops node server.js The audio sequencer will now start playing on your local machine, you'll hear sounds. To access a control interface for your JSONloops server, visit http://localhost:8080/

Video demo of JSONloops from NYC Music Hack Day 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSZLLgel6Gs Every song or loop is stored as plain JSON, see the sample beat: https://github.com/Marak/JSONloops/blob/master/loops/nyc.jso... Each node.js "server" acts as a hosting point for the loop. Any number of browsers can act as a control interface for a "server". Eventually, each node.js "server" will sync up peer to peer. Audio playback currently occurs only on the "server", but as browser libraries such as http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/ improve, the browsers will also have audio playback. JSONloops isn't perfect right now by any means, but after checking the commit log from the weekend: https://github.com/Marak/JSONloops/commits/master ( and laughing at the drunken commit messages ), I was thoroughly impressed with how much th