BirDJ
Tab the birds. Make a beat.
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By Diego Dotta, Leandra V. Silva
Sonnet 4.6 fasst Produkt + Kommentar-Tonalität in vier Sätzen zusammen (~0.5 ct, einmal pro Post).
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BirDJ turns real birdsong into a beat machine. Tap a grid of birds to fire their calls, or play them on your keyboard. Hold to sustain, drag up or down to bend the pitch. Hit record, play your beat, and share it as a link that replays right in a friend's browser. No app, no signup, no server. Open the demos to hear Ode to Joy, Seven Nation Army, and more, played entirely by birds. Free, from The Sunrise.
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- [REDACTED]·34h ago1
Yo folks
This started as a silly little experiment: what if a grid of birds was a drum machine?
Turns out... it kind of rules. You tap the pads to fire real birdsong (actual recordings, not synths), or play them on a keyboard with 1 2 3 4 5 / Q W E R T / A S D F G. Hold a pad to sustain the call, drag up or down to bend its pitch like a tiny chipmunk. Then hit record, play your beat back, and share it as a link that replays right in your friend's browser. No app, no signup, no server, nothing to install.
I got a little carried away and taught the birds some actual songs, so there are demos in there: Ode to Joy, Seven Nation Army, Smoke on the Water... played entirely by birds. They're weirdly good.
It's free, and it's part of The Sunrise, our little corner of the internet for bird stuff (cousin to our Bird Rise alarm app).
Would genuinely love to hear what you make. Drop a share link in the comments and I'll play every one of them. Also accepting strong opinions on which bird is the best pad.
- [REDACTED]·11h ago0
The robins actually sound kind of great layered together, and being able to bend the pitch by dragging is a really fun little detail. Wish I could stack more than one call at a time without it clipping though.
- [REDACTED]·13h ago0
Curious how the bird samples are actually sourced and recorded, are these real field recordings or are they synthesized to mimic the calls?