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MMODM's Twitter account (@playmmodm). I understand hackers fears as I'm one of them. That's why the better way to play the drum machine is by tweeting to it like so (from Twitter) ' @playmmodm [o---o---o---oxx-xx-x-xx-xxxz--z--zzzz] #MMODM'


i want to share via twitter only after i've found a good combination of beats. Am I missing something here, can this page do anything without being integrated with twitter?


haha!


Unfortunately, to be able to Tweet on your behalf, we need to request for the Read/Write permissions. I understand your fear, you can bypass that thing by going to your Twitter and tweeting to the Drum Machine like so: @playmmodm [o---o---o---ozz-z-z-zz] #MMMODM


Plague Inc. of real data! Cool!


Hopefully Madagascar can get some news with this!


Appreciate your feedback! Putting '-' in your sequence will have add a 1 unit gap between your beat! We're changing the letters order to match qwerty soon!


Derek, I don't think people realize you have to retweet to get this to work? I had the same issue...

I agree with other people who complain about this. I shouldn't have to tweet something in order to see the results.


Agreed, thank you, we're thinking of changing that soon to allow you to practice before tweeting! you can still hear each beat if you type its letter (outside the input text field:p)


Please, go ahead! Let there be sound!


Good point, it's text based because I miss playing around with text-based interfaces. Other than to please the keyboard junky in me, using Twitter stream API as a part of your system has so many cool benefits...


Or, you just want everyone to tweet about it.


right but... how do i know if it's a cool rhythm before tweeting? I don't get how to create something without spamming people with crap.


if you mention @playmmodm in your tweet like so'@playmmodm [o---o---oxx-x-x-z-z-z] #MMODM' you wont spam your friends because they're not following @playmmodm! Hope that helps a bit while we take all the good feedback we got here and fine-tune those details. Thanks.


Then what is the reason to integrate it with twitter only? I can't even use it (and I wish I could) unless I sign in.


every letter corresponds to a beat! Dashes are spaces between beats! Tweet from either the web-app or from Twitter like so '[dd--dd--ddo---o---o---o] #MMODM'


What is the vertical line? Why does clicking on a box not turn on/off that box? Is there some other way to turn on a box? Is there some way to generate the "[dd--dd--ddo---o---o---o]" for me, so I don't have to figure out the syntax myself and make sure I have the right length of string? Is there some way outside of twitter to try a string like "[dd--dd--ddo---o---o---o]" to see what it does, before I post it to my friends on Twitter?

I like to think I'm not the average clueless user, but this site really confuses me :) Looks like with a little polish and user testing, it could be fun, though!


It doesn't encourage play at all and doesn't even tell you what its supposed to do. Its honestly one of the most frustrating interfaces I've seen. It feels like it would be powerful, but its so unintuitive in even the most basic function of setting beats it fails miserably.


Thank you! You can create your own room and jam with friends!


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