TOtomcam·Mar 28, 2019Submission
Tone.js – A framework for making interactive music in the browser
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Tone.js
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Tonejs / Tone.js
Tone.js
A Web Audio framework for making interactive music in the browser.
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A Web Audio framework for making interactive music in the browser.
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| Mar 26, 15:00 | 2019-03-26 15:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-26 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 26, 18:00 | 2019-03-26 18:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-26 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 26, 21:00 | 2019-03-26 21:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 00:00 | 2019-03-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-27 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 03:00 | 2019-03-27 03:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-27 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 06:00 | 2019-03-27 06:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-27 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 09:00 | 2019-03-27 09:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-27 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 12:00 | 2019-03-27 12:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-27 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 15:00 | 2019-03-27 15:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-27 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 18:00 | 2019-03-27 18:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-27 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 21:00 | 2019-03-27 21:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 28, 00:00 | 2019-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-28 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 28, 03:00 | 2019-03-28 03:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-28 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 28, 06:00 | 2019-03-28 06:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-28 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 28, 09:00 | 2019-03-28 09:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-28 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 28, 12:00 | 2019-03-28 12:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-28 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 28, 15:00 | 2019-03-28 15:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-28 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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2 sourcesHow do I tell what language to use with this package?
From what I can tell it uses react. I have tried node, angular, and react but this installation page confounds me [0]. as far as I understand, I have been using either npm init, ng init, or create-react-app to initialize the directory for an example project. Then I do npm install tone inside of the directory I created.
I have found this [1] playground for tone but it does not elucidate how the library should be or is referenced.
I'd like to work with generative music but the amount I must know and choose between in a js project always seems to freeze me at the project init phase.
In the process of editing this comment I have finally gotten tone.js to work. Here are the steps i followed:
npm install create-react-app
create-react-app tone-test
cd tone-test
npm install tone
add "impor
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t Tone from '../node_modules/tone'" to the top of App.js this step is what I was messing up previously i believe
then I just throw tone commands at the bottom of App.js and they play on pageload, this is exactly what I wanted for now.
[0] https://github.com/Tonejs/Tone.js/wiki/Installation
[1] https://codepen.io/loderunnr/pen/AXoAko