Pianotypes

Not many code changes as of late but I’ve been more active on one of the packages I’m using to play sound, smplr. It’s such an amazing package for playing instrument sounds with an incredibly simple and powerful api. Kudos to danigb. A bunch of new changes were made recently that have added some awesome features as well as some bugs I found while using them. Note Scheduling Throughput The first change was a tweak to note scheduling that fixes an issue of the web audio getting overloaded and introducing lot’s of static. ...

Not too much to report. I had the realization that I can pause the scheduled notes by suspending the AudioContext since they depend on the context’s timer. It’d be pretty easy to add pause functionality. The only caveat is that if I pause the AudioContext, than all sound from the piano is also paused. Perhaps I could code in a notice to resume the timer given the user inputs a key press but I don’t want to resume the context on every key press. Maybe I could write some code to resume on the first user input on pause. ...

Today I spent some time working on getting the instructions dialogues up. I originally planned on creating a secondary overlay window that pops up given a trigger. Very similar to how to the toast notifications work but instead with a much larger area. The only problem with that is I wanted a clean way to inject custom html into the dialogue box depending on who triggers it. In the case of the toast notification I just pass it a string which is fine given it’s only suppose to be a sure notifier anyways. For the instructions, I may need to add bullets or text stylings depending on what the instructions are for. Strings aren’t going to cut it. ...

I’m a bit more than late for a second devlog but I figured there’s no better thing to call this. I originally made this blog for the purposes of short and sweet devlogs but my recent posts have been bit larger than what I originally intended. I’m hoping with this log to bring that focus back down to just that. Since my previous post, I’ve done a lot of fine tuning of the UI and functionality of the site. One I’m quite happy with was adding draggability to the inputs simialr to other software like Blender. It’s a lot more convenient than typing and allows you to set options easily using mouse only. ...