Comments on: Roland Made A Free TR-808… For Your Browser!

By: Tomislav Zlatic

Tomislav Zlatic — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 08:52:22 +0000

In reply to MRG. Oh, I meant you were referring to the title image for this article. :D

By: MRG

MRG — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 22:10:28 +0000

In reply to Tomislav Zlatic.

I get this one by default, enjoy! ;-) https://postimg.cc/k2zvx0Ld

By: MRG

MRG — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 22:05:01 +0000

In reply to Tomislav Zlatic. Whut? No, I mean, the website gave me a pattern on the 808. I clicked the hamburger since and A Guy Called Gerald is attached to the project, so it makes sense. ;-) I get a default pattern, apparently not everyone, weird. Firefox doesn't sync up the 808 an 303 here, Chrome does. Ah, well.

By: Tomislav Zlatic

Tomislav Zlatic — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 19:28:55 +0000

In reply to Wasyl. No patterns.

By: Tomislav Zlatic

Tomislav Zlatic — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 19:28:42 +0000

In reply to MRG. LOL! Btw, to be honest, I resisted the temptation to press play on this pattern. It was made for screenshot purposes only.

By: MRG

MRG — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 18:14:13 +0000

Heh, that 808 pattern, isn’t that Voodoo Ray?

By: MRG

MRG — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 18:10:40 +0000

So, between their evil cloud stuff and this, should I gather that Roland is definitely dedicated to not giving us proper VSTi at all, ever? Tsk, tsk. ;-)

By: Wasyl

Wasyl — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 16:17:24 +0000

No patterns or did I miss something?

By: Tomislav Zlatic

Tomislav Zlatic — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 13:53:26 +0000

In reply to Jacob. Cool, thanks for all the info. Yeah, I guess it totally made sense to use 808 samples. Still, for a browser-based instrument, this one is quite fun.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 13:27:33 +0000

Like you suspected, the 808 is sample based–all MP3s to be precise. I mean, it’s a little browser toy so more than this couldn’t really be expected. They’re VBR V2 (about 120kbps) and they have tags for ENC_DELAY and ENC_PADDING so that the bit of silence added to the start of MP3s doesn’t affect the timing of your rhythms. Here’s the file list I’ve collected https://pastebin.com/qQUcui4J

The 303 is actually synthesized though, using Tone.js https://tonejs.github.io/ https://tonejs.github.io/docs/14.7.39/Synth.html https://tonejs.github.io/examples/simpleSynth (more examples in the top-left burger menu, like granulizer and monosynth and metalsynth)

Tone.js actually has the ability to do 808-like sounds with Tone.MembraneSynth but I guess it was important to get the sound absolutely authentic with 120kbps MP3s :p

Still, it’s a cute webpage.

By: Tomislav Zlatic

Tomislav Zlatic — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 09:43:51 +0000

In reply to Rogue Reaper. Ah, that's what happens when I post articles before my morning coffee kicks in. Thanks for the heads-up! :)

By: Rogue Reaper

Rogue Reaper — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 09:30:04 +0000

Just a headsup, the link is not a link ;)