Show HN: Theremin I/O

That site, while beautiful, really frustrated me. I kept clicking to get something to happen, but couldn't. I tried to scroll and each time it would put me back at the top of the page. Let's say that I'm intrigued by the product, but not enough to fight with the site, unfortunately. :(

Oooh man, this is an awesome idea. I will be playing with this soon.<p>But just one suggestion: video footage of the app being used on the page, front-and-center.<p>The live logo is really neat, but it doesn&#x27;t really convey anything about the <i>purpose</i> of the app.<p>I&#x27;m already familiar with Theremins, but I&#x27;d bet a lot of your userbase wouldn&#x27;t immediately grasp the nature of the app from what&#x27;s on the page if they haven&#x27;t seen one being used before.

If you don&#x27;t have an iPhone, you can build your own Theremin (with vacuum tubes) by following this Popular Electronics article from 1955: <a href="http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/PopularElectronics/Apr1955/PE_Apr1955.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swtpc.com&#x2F;mholley&#x2F;PopularElectronics&#x2F;Apr1955&#x2F;PE_A...</a><p>Simple!

Just tried the app. Cool stuff! Managed to hook the midi out up with Traktor. Here&#x27;s a movie of the beatmasher in action: <a href="http://bergstroem.nu/theremin.m4v" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bergstroem.nu&#x2F;theremin.m4v</a>

Are there any open source variants of this? Would love to play around with different possibilities (saxophone or cello setting, piano on your laptop, slappin da bass, etc).

To be honest, I&#x27;m most impressed by the directional lighting simulation in the header. Any hints on how it was done? Mouse position and image opacity?

This site reminds me of the Mac Pro site: <a href="http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;mac-pro&#x2F;</a><p>I hate libraries that alter the scrolling action, don&#x27;t mess with that please. That&#x27;s like switching keys on the keyboard, it is a very bad UX...<p>On a happier note, checking the console made me happy. I didn&#x27;t event know you could &quot;style&quot; log messages. Very cool.

Very nice. You might want to consider supporting OSC as well as midi. The mobile platform is providing a way to break from that horrible proprietary 1970s protocol, and you can do your bit to help out!<p>I really should write that essay about how midi is an evil tyrant holding back musical expression.<p>Also OSC will allow you to have less &quot;discrete&quot; notes, so it might actually sound like a theremin.

This was fun. Why don&#x27;t you allow setting the key though?<p>Also, I would love to see a less skeuomorphic interface. Some things are particularly bad, like when changing the scale (you have to tap a button to the left of the active selection to bring up the choice selector).

I like the design of the site, however it hijacks the two-finger swipe to go back for me. I haven&#x27;t seen this happen on any other webpage before. Chrome on OS X 10.9.

Looks very interesting - but I had to switch to Chrome to view the site. The scrolling (using mouse wheel &#x2F; trackpad) doesn&#x27;t work properly on Safari 6.1.

check out standaloneV2 as well <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/standalonev2/id656556702?mt=8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;standalonev2&#x2F;id656556702?mt=...</a>, works similar but based on sound waves and is free for the month as a part of the wrong biennial <a href="http://thewrong.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thewrong.org&#x2F;</a>

I also noticed that the screenshots in the iTunes Store are not in the best quality. You can even see some artifacts on the tab bar at the bottom.

Confusing site, why not just make a normal website.

Interesting app. Also, the website&#x27;s source code seems to contain a secret code. When you type it in, it unlocks teh funnies :-)

Very cool! Apps like these make my phone a beautiful, versatile thing, not to-do lists.<p>(Hijacked scrolling doesn&#x27;t work in Safari, fyi)

This is unfortunate. I have never heard a worse instrument, and I&#x27;ve been to events where this was played by practiced people. Okay, maybe those annoying horns some cultures play during soccer are worse, but these are still really bad. I consider it more of something that was easy to make rather than something that was made to produce a good result. They would have been better off just coming up with their own thing.

Bought it. Does not seem to work properly with iOS6.1 and iPhone 4s. Hopefully there&#x27;ll be an update on this!

Just write &quot;disco&quot; anywhere in the page. The creator left a surprise. Cool webGL work.

Very neat, now I&#x27;ll spend the rest of the day attempting to master Good Vibrations.

This site is literally just a black page for me on Chromium&#x2F;Crunchbang.