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BirDJ
Tab the birds. Make a beat.
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Tab the birds. Make a beat.
23 followers
BirDJ turns real birdsong into a beat machine. Tap a grid of birds to fire their calls, or play them on your keyboard. Hold to sustain, drag up or down to bend the pitch. Hit record, play your beat, and share it as a link that replays right in a friend's browser. No app, no signup, no server. Open the demos to hear Ode to Joy, Seven Nation Army, and more, played entirely by birds. Free, from The Sunrise.
Tiny Mario
Yo folks
This started as a silly little experiment: what if a grid of birds was a drum machine?
Turns out... it kind of rules. You tap the pads to fire real birdsong (actual recordings, not synths), or play them on a keyboard with 1 2 3 4 5 / Q W E R T / A S D F G. Hold a pad to sustain the call, drag up or down to bend its pitch like a tiny chipmunk. Then hit record, play your beat back, and share it as a link that replays right in your friend's browser. No app, no signup, no server, nothing to install.
I got a little carried away and taught the birds some actual songs, so there are demos in there: Ode to Joy, Seven Nation Army, Smoke on the Water... played entirely by birds. They're weirdly good.
It's free, and it's part of The Sunrise, our little corner of the internet for bird stuff (cousin to our Bird Rise alarm app).
Would genuinely love to hear what you make. Drop a share link in the comments and I'll play every one of them. Also accepting strong opinions on which bird is the best pad.
Awesome idea @diegodottac! Is it possible to use novation launchpad with it? I tried in FF and Chrome but it didn't work.
Tiny Mario
@artk Dang, that's cool! I'll check their documentation to see how to integrate with it.
Tiny Mario
@artk Can you test it now? It’s better to go straight to the app here: https://thesunrise.org/birdj/
@diegodottac wow, that was quick! works perfectly on Brave on Mac with Launchpad X, thank you!
Tiny Mario
@artk Do the launchpad keys light up when you replay a recording?
@diegodottac yes, both when recording is playing and when I click the UI.
Tried the Ode to Joy demo and was weirdly delighted by how expressive the robin samples feel when you bend the pitch up. Sharing a beat as a plain link that just replays in the browser is a really nice touch.
The robins actually sound kind of great layered together, and being able to bend the pitch by dragging is a really fun little detail. Wish I could stack more than one call at a time without it clipping though.