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Fantastic, had a lot of fun poking around this little machine.

I really love it, here are some minor improvement points:

- when right-clicking, the intended functionality of selecting the appropriate rhythm works only half the time or so. The other half is the browser modal showing normal right-click action. Consider doing long-press to change rhythm?

- volume per channel feels off. Putting the slider halfway already results in nearly inaudible contribution from that sample. Consider changing the "slope" of the volume slider?

- the BPM slider is a bit on the small side. Consider making it wider for finer control?

- the window at default zoom level (100%, 1080p resolution) doesn't fill the screen. Works perfect on 125% setting. Consider filling the entire screen so that the button sizes etc. are maximized?

Amazing to play around with.



>Volume slider

This is a common mistake [0], even popular applications like the Netflix player get it wrong

[0] https://www.dr-lex.be/info-stuff/volumecontrols.html


Also having tons of fun with this

Some more feedback:

- The blue indicator is 4 ticks behind the playback

- It would be nice to have more options for where the sounds can appear, like bars 3 and 4

- When I enable a track, I expect any notes that have already passed to have been skipped, but some (kick, cymbal) will start playing halfway through the track even after the note has long passed.


That's awesome to hear, and thanks so much for the detailed feedback. Really appreciate it!


AH! yeah in my chrome it didn't work at all. i was super confused how the example got the little dots and what they meant.


I would also suggest a 'Solo' button




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