by Hamish Lang
Click Bath is an ambient music generator. It allows the user to click on one of two pads to produce a calming tone. It can be used by musicians and non-musicians alike, no musical theory is required.
What's with the name?!? The idea is a play on ‘sound baths’, which is usually just ambient music played live on non traditional instruments which is rising in popularity.
Features Overview
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Allows users to assign one of ten sounds to one of the two pads, the color of the pad will change depending on the tone selected when changed.
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Notes can be chosen from either a musical scale or a ‘mood’ based scale for non-musicians.
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10 Presets available
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A weather specific preset can be loaded from the users location.
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Oscilloscopes that react to the sound being played.
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Environmental soundscapes can be blended into the tones via the center knobs.
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Pads randomly generate notes based on the tone and key, and based on the users mouse location within the pad and play a high tone at the top, or a low tone at the bottom.
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Tones created by myself, using a combination of synths, guitars, and pre recorded sample libraries.
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Tone.js for sound playback, musical control.
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WebAudio Controls for the Knob interaction controls.
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Nexus.js for Oscilloscope functionality.
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JQuery.
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OpenWeather API.
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Removed Firebase due to not wanting user authentication. Added hard coded presets.
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Fixed Major and Minor notes scales.
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Removed Panning due to the clicking that it was producing when it was changed and a note was still being played.
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Added 'About' section. Either click on the top left question mark or on the title to view further information.
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Made mobile friendly (though performance is poor on it).
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Further refactoring, toned down the comments etc.
