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NexusUI – A JavaScript library of audio interface components

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Another interesting project along these lines is interface.js

http://www.charlie-roberts.com/interface/index.html

It provides a api for specifying which elements you'd like in your interface, and then handles the layout of those for you.

Charlie Roberts kicks ass

Is it just me, or is the radial control counter-intuitive? The control suggests that you change the value by moving in a circle. But, the actual motion required to change the value is more like a vertical slider.

This is common behavior for a software knob in my experience. I've used very few programs that actually expected you to go in a circle and found that motion to be a hassle to perform with a mouse.

It'd make more sense to set the value of the knob to be the angle between the centre of the control and the mouse position.

It turns out that most people don't like this in practice. In software where that behavior is implemented people ask for the option to make linear movements. For making electronic music many people don't want to set and forget a parameter, but vary it continuously, and angular adjustment is not convenient. Vertical/horizontal fader controls are popular for some parameters (eg envelope adjustment or crossfading between two sources), and hated for others (eg EQ).

Downvoted for providing factual information...impressive.

Here are some tutorials to get started with, There are Audio examples in the full download package. Thanks for your interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Nk6EIwuXI&list=UUgXNsn5yeK... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1_S8z0IOvs

Nice! I am definitely going to play around with this. I've been thinking about doing a proof of concept VST plugin with a JS/Html interface for a while now, this would make my job a lot easiers.

One question,though... Licence?

On the github page for the project it says:

License: NexusUI is licensed as open source software under the terms of the "New BSD License", http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BSD/

https://github.com/lsu-emdm/nexusUI

Nice work! I think I will play with it during my next hackathon.

Cool! I was looking for something like this for a side project..

Anybody has a link to an project that usese this that actually has sound output?

Looking for this as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Qb-wZLeA4&list=UUgXNsn5yeK...

Thanks, looks great.

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