Recreating Daft Punk's Da Funk with Overtone and Leipzig

The original seems to have been made by creating a feedback loop between one of the outputs and the filter input of an analog synthesizer. The examples I&#x27;ve seen were done on a Yamaha CS-15 but a lot of monophonic old analogs allow you to do that, like a MiniMoog. However the filters on a CS-15 are quite unique, don&#x27;t think you can even do this exact patch on an MS-20.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;W4PEAKNtbVw?t=184" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;W4PEAKNtbVw?t=184</a><p>A good explanation how it works<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kdN43xfwV2U" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kdN43xfwV2U</a><p>Slightly better played

Well that&#x27;s opened up a fascinating new world to me. Is there a name for that regular logarithmic by linear music notation in the first image? I suddenly feel like a whole lifetime of musical enjoyment has been denied to me by the utterly utterly ridiculous staff notation system.

&gt; The key is F major.<p>Where is this coming from? It&#x27;s pretty clearly G minor to me. The bass is playing G. The main phrase starts and ends on a G.<p>&gt; This 1.334 is a ratio of adding 5 semitones in hertz. This should sound like this.<p>This harmonic overtone kills it for me. I know there are some overtones in the original, but not like this. 5 semi-tones is an interval of a perfect fourth. I think maybe a perfect fifth would work (7 semi-tones) but this overtone pretty much destroys it for me.

Might be relevant to the subject: Sonic Pi Daft Punk sample - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cydH_JAgSfg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cydH_JAgSfg</a>

Off topic but Sam Aaron an overtone contributor and the creator of Sonic Pi is currently looking for advice re the funding of his work on Sonic Pi<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;samaaron" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;samaaron</a>

Not knowing about Leipzig[0], I&#x27;ve been trying to come up with my own representation of music in JS to work with the Web Audio API. My biggest puzzle so far is how to a) keep a rhythm and b) allow musical &quot;blocks&quot;, which are indeterminate in length, to fit into this rhythm. I was thinking that these blocks would be pre-defined functions which represent different aspects of music (bassline, riff, etc.) which could be repeated and inserted at arbitrary time in the composition.<p>If anyone is interested on working on this drop me a pm&#x2F;comment (it&#x27;s just for fun)<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ctford&#x2F;leipzig" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ctford&#x2F;leipzig</a>

I was kinda bummed that they weren&#x27;t referring to the iconic 303 bassline from da funk.

Is there anything like this for JS + WebAudio? Have a mate who wants to be able to embed something like this in a website (endless generative music).

This is great, I hope there are more Overtone recipes in the future!

Here&#x27;s a recreation of One More Time that I saw on HN a few years back:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=9sdtOpE_3aQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=9sdtOpE_3aQ</a><p>And the follow up:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0kZy5qNrlks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0kZy5qNrlks</a>

I had no idea they open-sourced their shit. That&#x27;s amazing. They&#x27;re one of my favourite groups.

How did I not know about Overtone. Clojure + Music, two things I love. Thanks for this.

Haha. This is awesome. I wonder what the final output would be. A full song?

It is pretty cool that you can program a song in code, but it looks awfully verbose.<p>Do people really compose this way?

Is there any synthesizer that would sound like a real violin?

That 303 just isn&#x27;t a 303.

You&#x27;re right. It&#x27;s funny listening to this. They&#x27;re playing the same song, but it&#x27;s not even close to as good as the Daft version.<p>The daft version is loud and has a bite. This version just sounds lethargic and boring.

I once brought an interviewer to the brink of tears after she revealed how overloaded she was and how the EE team had effectively been eliminated for offshore workers. It was curious that all the other interviewers before her were MEs and systems engineers with no knowledge of the job I was interviewing for. They all kept referring to the &quot;old product line&quot; developed in house and how great it was to work on. The implication being that the new line was shit because nobody was around who new how it worked. All the money went into developing sexy enclosures and nothing into the actual electronics.<p>There were lots of glossy trade brochures lionizing the founders and how great they were but it was apparent that they went public to cash out and were riding the growth roller coaster to drive the stock price at the expense of capable employees who can sustain the company long term.