Day 32: Back to work
Day 32: Back to work
Some progress updates on my modular synth project (and a link to the waitlist)
You may have noticed that the past few posts haven’t included a “what are you working on?” section, but I think it’s time to bring that back.
I’m currently working on a modular synth project for the web. For those who aren’t familiar, a modular synth is a way to create sound from scratch. They’re often used to create ambient electronic music, but you can customize them to create almost anything—vocoders, sound effects, microphone effects etc. The problem is that they’re very, very expensive (it’s normal to spend thousands of dollars on a single setup).
Some of you may be wondering what happened to my chord learning and sheet music apps. For now, they’re on the backburner (read: I haven’t worked on them in a while). This modular synth project will not suffer that same fate, and I plan on seeing it through to completion.
Today, I worked on some boring but necessary tasks to prepare for launch:
Added a waitlist. It’s a simple form for people to register their interest before the tool launches officially. If you know anyone interested in making music in their browser, send this link their way.
Migrated to Next.js. I want to add support for saving and sharing to the cloud, which means the app now needs a backend server and database. The conversion from a plain React app to Next.js was fairly simple, so tomorrow I can work on actually implementing that backend.
Worked on landing page. Up until now, the entire website was just the app itself, so I’m building a landing page where people can see exactly what it’s about before trying it themselves.
