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Ambient Garden

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282 points fipar | 4 comments | 23 Jun 25 17:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.691s | source
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pierrec ◴[26 Jun 25 03:02 UTC] No.44383854[source]▶
Author here, glad people are exploring this. Some fun details (should be in the "about" section but that's easy to miss):

- It's open source, including the code that produced the audio: https://github.com/pac-dev/AmbientGarden

- All the generated music is in just intonation. This was mostly for convenience at first (JI is easy to produce with code), but it led me down a massive harmonic rabbit hole in which I'm still located.

I'm currently hacking away at the next iteration of this, where rhythm is fully embraced. I have to say the ambient genre was super convenient and allowed me to play fast and loose with synchronization, while really focusing on how harmony can be laid out in space. But rhythm was always in the books and I'm hoping it takes things to another level.

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1. rhet0rica ◴[26 Jun 25 05:31 UTC] No.44384445[source]▶
Any chance of getting a master volume control added? This is gorgeous but Firefox doesn't have a per-tab volume slider.
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2. pierrec ◴[26 Jun 25 14:39 UTC] No.44387898[source]▶
This is probably the most-requested feature so I'll give it a go. I initially didn't consider it because you're supposed to play it solo and use your device's overall volume control if desired, but I can see the appeal. However I really don't want to clutter the interface, so I might hide it behind a settings icon.
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3. mzs ◴[26 Jun 25 17:45 UTC] No.44389598[source]▶
Thank you for making this, it's fantastic, please don't clutter the visual.

A mono button would be nice but I can usually use accessibilty for that.

Keyboard control?

4. pierrec ◴[26 Jun 25 21:10 UTC] No.44391418[source]▶
I've added a volume control. It's hidden behind the settings icon at the bottom.