7 comments

  • _def an hour ago

    tangent/feedback about the product: replacing abandoned desktop apps with a webapp with unknown future does not exactly excite me. Bundle this as a desktop app that works offline-first and you'll pique more interest.

    • nl 7 minutes ago

      Strong disagree!

      Zero install is a huge feature both to reduce friction and to save local storage. I don't want to install yet another synth I'll use twice a year.

    • halfradaition 13 minutes ago

      Fair point. We went web-first to bypass driver installation hell, but a local Tauri app for offline-first use is on the roadmap.

  • sargstuff 2 days ago

    Nice retro-demo/motivation for "what's the point of protocols/abstraction layers"[0].

    Use case argument for an add-on programmable logic array / micro controller board as security interface / non-standard to standard protocol translation.

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    [0] : https://www.terryewell.com/m116/Docs/historyMIDI.pdf

    • halfradaition a day ago

      We just throttle the Web MIDI stream in JS with 100ms pauses between packets so the 8-bit CPU doesn't choke.

  • Macha 3 hours ago

    I had the opposite problem where using my (recent-ish) cheap midi keyboard with WebMidi was crashing Firefox.

    • halfradaition 3 hours ago

      That's usually caused by cheap controller firmware flooding the connection with continuous Active Sensing signals (0xFE bytes every 300ms) or noisy clock jitter.