Skred
my opinionated sound/pattern engine and live coding thingy
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This is my noisy and ugly baby... but I love it...
HN · launched Jul 5, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: audio and music production software · 188 launches, 25 in the last 7 days ▼ -24% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Designing and building a real-time sound/pattern engine with custom synthesis, sample looping, and live-coding language interpretation requires deep digital signal processing (DSP) and audio systems expertise.
What it would actually take: A real sound engine requires a low-latency, lock-free audio synthesis architecture (e.g., in C++, Rust, or low-level Elixir/C interop), custom wavetable oscillators, filters, sample parsers handling loop metadata, and a deterministic audio scheduling loop. It also includes an interpreter or parser for the live-coding domain-specific language (SKODE). This demands specialized expertise in audio DSP, real-time memory management, and programming language design.
Discussion
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Concerns raised: Unreliable loading (50% success rate), Regional performance issues (Central Europe/Middle East)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 309 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #284 of 310 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 247 days after the earliest competitor.
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