[HN Gopher] Recreating the sounds of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
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Recreating the sounds of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Author : lobbly
Score : 35 points
Date : 2023-05-13 05:12 UTC (17 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (webaudio.prototyping.bbc.co.uk)
(TXT) w3m dump (webaudio.prototyping.bbc.co.uk)
| alnis wrote:
| Very cool! This might be a good time to mention a JavaScript
| emulation I made of the EMS Synthi A, which was also present at
| the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (well, the closely-related EMS VCS3
| was) and contributed, among other things, to some SFX for Doctor
| Who: https://github.com/AlexNisnevich/synthi-js
|
| This was a project from 6-7 years ago and I had to rely on a
| third-party library for the web audio bits. If I re-did it today,
| I'd definitely do it all in native Web Audio.
| jim-jim-jim wrote:
| Thanks for posting this. It's hard to navigate on my phone, so
| I'll just comment here to remind myself to visit later.
|
| https://youtube.com/watch?v=jetzY-W78gg
|
| First heard this a few years ago from a Delia Derbyshire biopic
| with Caroline Catz and Cosey Fanni Tutti.
| CharlesW wrote:
| > _It 's hard to navigate on my phone, so I'll just comment
| here to remind myself to visit later._
|
| Hacker News has a "Favorite" feature that's good for this.
| Animats wrote:
| Unfortunately, it's prevented from working in Firefox by
| Firefox's anti-default-audio feature. The trouble is, the thing
| creates an audio context on page load, not when you click the on
| button. Firefox won't let a page create an audio context without
| user interaction.
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