Discussion
Bubble Sorted Amen Break
staplung: Cool, but I don't see how it's sorting anything. It just seems to play a randomized arrangement of the slices. You can re-randomize as much as you like but there's no sort option as far as I can see.
exDM69: That's a fun two minutes for any computer scientist drum and bass fan.
marssaxman: I can't help laughing. This is great.I don't actually understand the comparison function, but it's really enjoyable listening to it work out its logic.
sandwell: It sounds like a Ventian Snares track. Love it.
dylan604: Did you play it to the end? It's absolutely sorting from smallest to largest. Unless you have a confused understanding of a bubble sort, it's doing a bubble sort
eieio: (the amen break is one of the most commonly-sampled drum breaks in popular music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break)
zonkerdonker: And a tragic story at that:>Coleman died homeless and destitute in 2006. It was unlikely he was aware of the impact he had made on music. Neither he [band leader Spencer] nor Coleman received royalties for the break.
hnlmorg: I’ve heard conflicting accounts about their knowledge and royalties.While I’m certain they didn’t receive royalties from all artists, I heard many 80s artists did. And Amen Brothers took others to court. So they would have know about the use of the break.I will admit I haven’t done any independent research into this matter personally. Just echoing accounts I’ve read and taking their reports at face value.
braebo: No sound on iPhone. Shame Apple is so hostile to the web. Tragic really.
quag: iOS seems to mute the web audio apis when the phone is in silent mode (the switch on the side of the phone). If you toggle it on, then this site (and many others) play sound.I have no idea why it works this way and it’s frequently annoying.
hnlmorg: Not the OP but I stopped listening pretty quickly because I was confused about how it was sorted.It wasn’t until I read your comment that I realised the sorting happened while you were listening rather than before hand.
ricardobeat: Same! thanks for saving the experience for me :)
robin_reala: My personal prize for the most chopped amen goes to Breakage’s Final mix of Equinox’s Acid Rain VIP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoKlz6_I4vY
bigstrat2003: Why wouldn't it work that way? Whether it's a hardware toggle like on iPhone or a software one like in Android, I want silent to mean silent. Not "silent but if a web page decides to play sound it can".
tialaramex: There is some amount of the "Focus follows brain" problem here. What we want is for things to do what we meant, all the time, and in this case it's very possible that the visitor wanted to hear the music. It is not practical (without yet to invented technology) for that to work so we have a substitute - there's a switch and you should remember to press it."Focus follows brain" is how everybody wants windowed UIs to work. When I type on the keyboard the letters go where my brain thought they should go - duh, but of course that's unimplementable, so the Windows UI provides "Click to focus" - if I click on a Window the typing goes there until I click another window, meanwhile some Unix systems do "Focus follows Mouse" - if I move the mouse over a Window then my typing goes there even without clicking. Neither is what we actually wanted, both are trying to approximate.
pdpi: The idea is that it slices the Amen Break into however many slices you specify, and the list being sorted is the indices for those slices. At each step, it plays the slice the pivot is being compared to.Because it only plays the samples being compared, it never plays the sorted chunks, so it's missing a "punchline" of sorts.
evereverever: This is bonkers and I love it.
lxgr: So it's sorting from earliest to latest, really?
dylan604: The value that is being sorted isn't obvious to me. It's obvious that it is sorting it. I'm guessing maybe some dB level of each of the hits/notes. If that was the case, I'd expect the initial unsorted view to line up with the pattern of the waveforms which is not the case. Maybe it's just an unsorted list of values sorted in sync to the rhythm. It's weird though that the segment corresponds to a segment of the audio. I just don't see how they are linked.
scrumper: It's sorting by index of the slice. Pressing "shuffle" jumbles the slices up. So it puts the slices of the break back in the correct order. You never hear the result.Set it to 8 slices and it becomes easy to see what it's doing: look at the waveform and the now-playing highlight jumping around.
empath75: Not playing it all the way through at the end is diabolical.
hyperhello: You're right. It doesn't play the sorted parts, which is strange. I expected to have a series of random-then-controlled slices with the random part getting shorter and the controlled part getting longer, but it really is just a shortening loop of random beats.
butlike: Would have been cool if it played the sorted ones at the end as a final run through victory lap
oybng: Automatic chopping has existed for decades, popularised here: https://web.archive.org/web/20051225061044/http://www.cus.ca... https://github.com/mdsp/Livecut See also, dblue Glitch, chrisGlitch, Renoise
bzzzt: Yes, and on many samplers too. The linked website looks like a 'lite' version of the slicer on my Elektron Octatrack ;)
jamal-kumar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI5Qlo2Y6JgNice pick! Above that same song but not compressed to hellI like this one for amen stuff. Heavyweight Vol.4 - Untitled 7https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfyHx7SCn3g
jatari: -100 points for not having a volume slider.
LordDragonfang: Because silent mode is for the notifications. App volume has its own dedicated buttons.
nvader: This deserves the top spot on the front page!Might I ask for the implementation of other sorting algorithms here?
legitster: "Samples" were kind of like musical memes in the 1980s. What made for a good sample had a lot more to do with convenience and luck. The sounds that were picked for drum samples had more to do with how useful they were - the dynamic range, how isolated the drums are, how easy they were to mix.The other famous drum sample - the "Funky Drummer" as drummed by Clyde Stubblefield for James Brown, Stubblefield didn't think the particular drum pattern he used was particularly noteworthy. In that case, James Brown's production choices were actually more key - his signature sound revolved around really crisp drums that he insisted needed to be clear on AM Radio and Jukeboxes. Which is what made it so useful for sampling.
ChrisArchitect: Worlds colliding here.We're dropping amen selections now?Some classics that sound like what the app is sortin':Remarc - Sound Murderer (Loafin' in Brockley Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SUdpCVITxcSplash - Babylon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vghx8SEeH8DJ Krome & Mr. Time - The License https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPa5JBg8hZISource Direct - Secret Liason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfEWCVoB45sDanny Breaks - Droppin' Science Vol 1A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqZT-Jse5rQ
themarogee: Have you ever felt like your company is doing well but people still don’t take you seriously yet?I’m starting to think perception plays a much bigger role in founder success than we admit.”
ykl: If you aren’t familiar with the Amen Break, here’s a now classic 18 minute documentary on the Amen Break and its origins and evolution:https://youtu.be/5SaFTm2bcac?si=J99_Sh9x3fIBCSms
