Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer

Hugsbox

I adore this. Thanks OP

RonanSoleste

I love it. However i would love to walk around the pool and the ducks seem to stay with me a lot. But minor issues :)

yhjc2692

This is freaking awesome

dvh

I don't know who came up with idea that bread is bad for ducks but it ruined one fishing spot for me. There was a place where people were feeding bread to sucks and fly fishing there was awesome. Carps, chubs, crucians, rudds and roaches, even nases! All on dry flies. Then someone put out sign that bread harms ducks so people stopped feeding them and after a while all fish just disappeared.

setnone

i confirm this is very high quality

whartung

This is beautiful. We used to feed the ducks at the lake in the park. We bought poultry food at the local tack and feed store. There were dozens of them. When they got spooked and all started flying, the breeze was notable. Park eventually put in a sign to stop feeding them and took out the benches.

chimneychanga

that was fun thanks

LewisOrton

Do androids feed electric ducks btw i found it works very well as white noise

huck0

Really love this. Very relaxing to listen to this in the background.

tamimio

One of my new hobbies is feeding the ducks by the river every other day. One time they were a bit far and there was a steep slope between me and the ducks, I threw some of the seeds and went back to sit on the bench, pulled my phone and got distracted, few minutes later and there was almost 100 ducks surrounding me and staring waiting for food, I have no idea from where they came from! After they got fed they all went to sleep.

MitPitt

i suppose this is an environment noise generator, with duck calls just being recordings. i wish you could control ducks individually, after i threw peas they just hang out near mic forever

hypfer

A while back I played around with the clanker and got it to build a fully synthesized woodcock peent as a standalone html file. That then became embedded as an easter egg into some other software. Ducks were too hard for it though, unfortunately. Lately, I again threw a clanker at something like that and got it to recreate some MGS codec sound effects.

codeulike

I like the simulation. They do 'dabbling' and 'picking insects' but they dont ever seem to do 'ducking' (tail up, head underwater). Ducks are named after 'ducking' ... or possibly, 'ducking' is named after Ducks. edit: also please remove hard ceiling of 120 peas. I want to throw more peas

luipugs

This is triggering my anatidaephobia.

HoldOnAMinute

It doesn't fool Merlin Bird ID app on my iPhone

krokodeal

I was vibe coding a simple three.js bird world simulation when reading this, guess we're building a three.js duck pond simulation now.

brainless

This is lovely. Tried on speaker, will try with headphones. I have a chicken farm (and a pig farm but I manage the chickens myself). I want to start a duck farm with a fish pond. Living in a small village and enjoying these things in real life actually changed my life in ways that I cannot explain. I still (get agents to) write software but my daily life is around the farm and village life (mostly a Sun centric routine). I have to share a bunch of photos, not doing that enough. And I want to record all the bird sounds. Perhaps host a livestream. I live here; the home stay is by the host family: https://maps.app.goo.gl/TEUSdwvko2DRWmou5