Volcano 57
By BuFaw on January 20, 2026 11:43 am
made with my selfmade program for playdate (introduced here: https://weeklybeats.com/bufaw/music/paralysed )
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made with my selfmade program for playdate (introduced here: https://weeklybeats.com/bufaw/music/paralysed )
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike (BY-NC-SA)
Cool track and idea—I didn't even know the playdate could make sounds like this! The slow/stately section near the end is particularly evocative with lots of interesting developments keeping to things fresh.
I can't get the idea out of my head while listening that you're furiously turning that little handcrank throughout the entire song to keep the tempo going (like a little yellow street organ)
Fiancé (referring to the slow pitch bends, I think): "It's like a yo-yo as a song"
This is cool! I love how weird and experimental it is while staying really easy to listen to.
Is your playdate program like a sequencer or tracker, or can you play it "live?"
I’m unfamiliar with the playdate but impressed with what you did with it!
Thanks for the feedback.
This is cool! I love how weird and experimental it is while staying really easy to listen to.
Is your playdate program like a sequencer or tracker, or can you play it "live?"
I'm not sure if I understand the terms correct but It's more like a sequencer I think? Maybe a bit a mix of sequencer and tracker? It's mostly like nanoloop for android / iphone.
I don't have much experience with stuff doing live but you can put patterns in a list and make it that these patterns being played repeatedly and while doing that you can edit the parameters of all notes of a pattern together. Also there is a parameter named "instrument group" that makes it possible to edit all notes of the same group number even if these notes are in different patterns, but there is a small lag when activating an instrument group, I hope I can fix that later.
Thanks for the feedback.
Earp Lug wrote:This is cool! I love how weird and experimental it is while staying really easy to listen to.
Is your playdate program like a sequencer or tracker, or can you play it "live?"
I'm not sure if I understand the terms correct but It's more like a sequencer I think? Maybe a bit a mix of sequencer and tracker? It's mostly like nanoloop for android / iphone.
I don't have much experience with stuff doing live but you can put patterns in a list and make it that these patterns being played repeatedly and while doing that you can edit the parameters of all notes of a pattern together. Also there is a parameter named "instrument group" that makes it possible to edit all notes of the same group number even if these notes are in different patterns, but there is a small lag when activating an instrument group, I hope I can fix that later.
That's really cool! Sounds like your program is a sequencer/tracker that can be modified live, assuming I understood you correctly ^_^