The BBC has published some online demonstrations that recreate the sounds of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop using the Web Audio API: Explore the BBC sound of the 1960s with our 4 demos of Radiophonic equipment, built with the new Web Audio API standard. Each demo comes with commented code, so you can learn how to build your… Read More BBC Recreates Sounds Of Radiophonic Workshop With HTML Audio
Can your mobile device play this? Alex Gibson’s WAVE-PD1, aka WavePad, is a basic synth toy that sounds a bit like a theremin, built with HTML 5 audio. WavePad has a simple touchpad UI and generates sound based on the waveform and filter settings that you can select. It can also be affected using delay… Read More Can Your Mobile Device Play This? (HTML Audio Test)
Browser-based virtual studio Soundation Studio has added support for external MIDI recording. Now you can connect an external keyboard to one of the virtual instruments in Soundation and record directly to the “cloud”. Soundation Studio comes with 4 different synthesizers, a drum machine and a sample player. You can also use the virtual keyboard in Soundation to record… Read More Soundation Studio Adds External Midi Recording
Want to get your modular on in your web browser? g200kg has released WebModular, a free browser-based modular synthesizer: WebModular is a simple modular software synthesizer, written in HTML 5 + Javascript. Realtime sound generation with javascript. While an interesting proof of concept, WebModular suffers from limitations that plague most browser-based music software. Most notably, it… Read More Free Browser-Based Modular Synthesizer, WebModular
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Google is honoring Bob Moog‘s birthday with a special interactive Moog style synth. Moog’s birthday is May 23rd, so the interactive ‘doodle’ was active in Australia and Japan first, and is now active in the US. The browser-based synth not only lets you play notes, but you can use the controls to shape the sound. Here’s… Read More Google Honors Bob Moog, Turns Search Engine Into A Synth!
Soundation CEO Bil Bryant contacted us to let us know that Soundation Studio, a brower-based virtual studio, has added a social networking side to their service. ”Our users were demanding a more social element to Soundation and we are excited to now have this in place”, says Bryant. “We just put up the community and… Read More Soundation Studio Adds Social Element To Browser-Based Music Making
Reader Peter van der Noord sent word that Patchwork, a browser-based modular synthesizer, has been updated. ‘Patchwork is an online virtual analog modular synth,” he notes, “Which allows you to connect basic sound generation or modification modules to create either music, effects or utter noisy crap.” The new version can be seen at Patchwork-Synth site.
Reader Bill Bryant sends word that Soundation Studio – a browser based music sequencer – has been updated with free drag ‘n’ drop MIDI files: ”Just drag a midi file on to a blue instrument channel, select a virtual instrument and press play. “Soundation Studio already has import for desktop midi files, but having drag… Read More Soundation Studio Adds Drag ‘n’ Drop MIDI Files
Reader Marek sent word of MZ-101 – a new Javascript based synthesizer that works in your Web browser: MZ-101 is a monophonic synthesizer, modeled on the old analog synthesizers of the 70’s and 80’s. Use the QWERTY keyboard to play notes too. Warning: this probably only works on the latest version of Google Chrome, on a… Read More New MZ-101 Javascript Synthesizer Works In Your Web Browser
