Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/10/23/bongo-cat-perfectly-simple-online-noise-maker.html
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Very nice, but needs a bit less cowbell 
(it’s loud)
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Cool, but there are a few bugs with polyphonic on some combinations.
I like http://typedrummer.com/ better.
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No match for the Nairobi Trio
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Personally I find it so disorienting to not hear the sound immediately, that
rather than interact with a web drum app (no matter how cute the picture) imo it’s preferable to play almost any real object in person - e.g. a soup pot, a cardboard box, the floor…
What amount of internet lag are others experiencing with the bongo cat?
For me the sound of the A key drum is about a sixteenth note later than the tap at 160bpm. The D drum sound is a bit quicker to respond, but not by much.
Pretty soon I’m going to learn how to play with a looper, am super excited
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I liked the bongos, but then I went to add in some tambourine and it just made me frown.
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There’s no internet lag here - pretty sure it’s just running javascript on your local computer. There might be some processing lag between when you press the button and when you hear the sound, it’s pretty minimal for me, a few ms at most.
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Thanks, now I need to know how many ms is equal to a sixteenth note at 160 bpm, good weekend project
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At 160 bpm, each beat would be 60s/160 = 375ms
So a 16th note would be ~23.5ms
My understanding is that musicians can start to feel latency at about 5-10ms
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Awesome, thanks! 
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I’m getting enough lag that I can’t really use it for music, but it is very cute - maybe for slow numbers, I guess.
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I really like this one as it enforces a beat and turns my random sentence into a compelling loop.
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