Messing with touchwaves by ｻｽｶｯﾁ

video upload by Akunull

"Play in browser:
https://sascacci.com/
⏦"

ER-99 Online Web-Based Roland TR-909 Emulator by Extralife Instruments

video upload by Extralife

Update: video added above.

"Play the ER-99 free here! https://extralifeinstruments.com/er-99/

Celebrate electronic music history on 9/09 day with ER-99, a web-based instrument 🎛️ based on a famous Japanese drum machine from the 1980s. It was built to celebrate 9/09 day 2022 🎉!

All of the drums are synthesized using the WebAudio API. The hi-hats, crash, and ride cymbals are produced from sampled audio.

The complete source code is available on Github: https://github.com/matthewcieplak/er-99"

Original post:

This one is in via Extralife, maker of the Super Sixteen DIY Eurorack Sequencer, featured in additional posts here.

"This year, to celebrate 9/09 day, I've built a free, open-source analog drum synth you can play in your web browser. It's called ER-99, and you can play it here (works best on desktop devices!)

You can program patches and sequences on the web interface and save them as presets using the menu below the sequencer. (I have also added MIDI input for sync with external sequences).

You can also read the complete source code on Github. It's surprising how simple many of these sounds are to make!

The original Japanese drum machine that inspired this project is an analog sound design masterpiece, and you can read circuit analysis about its clever use of noise and bandpass filters over on Network 909. I've tried to use the same techniques in the digital domain but I'm sure I can tweak them to get even closer sounding: http://www.network-909.de/circuit.htm"

Check out ER-99 here: http://extralifeinstruments.com/er-99/

LOOPZ - Batchas Pointz & Sudden Infant

video upload by batchas

"I developed this web app in 2001 and published different versions until 2009 with loops from various friend artists. Playing audio in good quality on internet and controlling volume in realtime was still quite rare and not yet self-evident. I also made a few standalone versions for PC/MAC. On the last online version I did around 2005 you could load your loops, record your mix and play a mix saved on the server. But it never passed the BETA stage, because a web agency engaged me for a larger project and I was too busy the following years."

LOOPZ - Sudden Infant

video upload by

"I developed this web app in 2001 and published different versions until 2009 with loops from various friend artists. Playing audio in good quality on internet and controlling volume in realtime was still quite rare and not yet self-evident. I also made a few standalone versions for PC/MAC. On the last online version I did around 2005 you could load your loops, record your mix and play a mix saved on the server. But it never passed the BETA stage, because a web agency engaged me for a larger project and I was too busy the following years."

tahti.studio - Online Elektron Inspired Groovebox with Sample Import

check it out at https://tahti.studio

Mouse over the controls for tips at the bottom of the player.

Some details via Create Digital Music

"maxjvh writes us to tell us about their creation tahti.studio, a labor of love inspired by Elektron’s fine groove hardware and workflows. It seems ideal for the person who adores their Elektron machine enough that they want to have some echo of it even looking back from their browser.

We’ve seen lots of these kinds of creations over the years – ah, remember the days when some folks were predicting browser tools would replace everything else? But this one is unusually powerful.

You get support for your own samples, for one, and easy secret link sharing of grooves you create means you can use this as a collaboration tool – or just a way of sending folks your feelings by drum machine pattern instead of words.

Single cycle waveforms? Yes. Powerful voice architecture? You bet. Per-step trigger conditions and p-locks and microtiming? I mean, honestly, this actually bests a fair amount of hardware. Add some sends and you could even finish stuff on this – but it also looks like a cute way of making some loops at random times that you can later load on your DAW or hardware."

The full feature list:

sample-based sound generation with support for single-cycle waveforms

almost all parameters can be modulated on a per-step basis

each track has a multimode filter, distortion, frequency shifter, sample-rate reducer, and amp envelope

three freely assignable modulation sources per track (essentially flexible LFOs that can be used in one-shot mode)

steps have micro-timing, retriggering, probability, and trigger conditions

tracks can have individual lengths and sequencer speeds (the latter can even be step-modulated, because why not)

four send effect: chorus, phaser, reverb, delay

a master compressor and soft clipper

macro controls for working with all kinds of inputs (check out the shortcuts)

pattern sharing via secret links (e.g. tahti 13)

rendering patterns to .wav"

Play The Novation Peak on YouTube

video by Floyd Steinberg

Here's an interesting one. Launch the video and press any number 1 - 8 on your keyboard.

Chords tiggered: 1 - Am (00:30​) 2 - F (01:00​) 3 - C (01:30​) 4 - G (02:00​) 5 - Em (02:30​) 6 - Dm (03:00​) 7 - G# (03:30​) 8 - F# (04:00​) ORIGINAL IDEA BY PlayWithKeyboard (https://www.youtube.com/c/PlayWithKeyboard/videos)

Get 7% off on DistroKid with this link http://distrokid.com/vip/floyd

Support: https://www.paypal.me/alexselck

Captain Credible Vetle & JARA Online Micro:bit Sequencers

Two browser based sequencers. Check out Vetle here and JARA here. Try creating a sequence on one and then the other. The sequence starts when you click on the first step so if you time it right you can get them in sync.

Be sure to check out Captain Credible's live performanc with the hardware versions posted earlier here.

Roland Launches Music Creation Platform 808303.studio

via Roland: "Roland Launches Music Creation Platform 808303.studio with the Design Museum in London Featuring Legendary TR-808 Rhythm Composer Drum Machine and TB-303 Bass Line Synthesizer

In response to the global pandemic, museums have been forced to reimagine how visitors interact and engage. Now, Roland and Yuri Suzuki have teamed up with the Design Museum to create 808303.studio, a fun and educational music creation platform and online-learning experience.

The Design Museum is also currently showing its popular ‘Electronic: From Kraftwerk to the Chemical Brothers’ exhibition featuring Roland’s legendary TR-808 Rhythm Composer drum machine and TB-303 Bass Line synthesizer.

808303.studio
The 808303.studio, which features Roland’s innovative step sequencer interface, as well as emulating the sound of the original Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer drum machine and Roland TB-303 Bass Line bass synthesizer, is a professional-sounding online musical interface. The studio lets users record their masterpieces and allows sharing through social media or as a download. Acid House innovator ‘A Guy Called Gerald’ will also be on board to help visitors find their way around the platform and teach them how to program and play their own electronic dance music using 808303.studio.

‘Electronic: From Kraftwerk to the Chemical Brothers’ exhibition
The ‘Electronic: From Kraftwerk to the Chemical Brothers’ exhibition focuses on innovation in electronic instruments and key moments in the history of electronic subculture. Roland’s TR-808 Rhythm Composer drum machine and its TB-303 Bass Line synthesizer — arguably two of the most groundbreaking inventions in the history of electronic music – will be on display. The unique sounds, along with their interfaces and unique perspectives, will allow visitors to take unexpected and innovative approaches to making music.

Yuri Suzuki
Yuri Suzuki is a sound artist, designer and electronic musician that explores the realms of sound through art and people. His work can be seen in several international museums and has worked with the likes of Google and will.i.am. to bring his collaborations to life.

The Design Museum
Based in Kensington, London, the Design Museum covers product, industrial, graphic, fashion and architectural design. In 2018, the museum was awarded the European Museum of the Year Award.

Roland
For nearly 50 years, Roland’s electronic musical instruments and multimedia products have fueled inspiration with trendsetting gear spanning from pianos, synthesizers, guitar products, and electronic percussion to DJ controllers, audio/video solutions and livestreaming products, providing modern software-based solutions and seamless creative workflows between hardware products, computers, and mobile devices.


Visitors are welcome to enjoy the 808303.studio and ‘Electronic: From Kraftwerk to the Chemical Brothers’ exhibition until February 14, 2021."

There's a synthesiser in your browser. Here's how to use it.

Floyd Steinberg

"Table of contents and links below! You may or may not already know this, but modern browsers contain powerful tools for manipulating audio. In this video, I'm giving you a brief (and imcomplete!) overview what's possible regarding sound synthesis, take a look at what other people created and try to build a small hardware synth using the Raspberry PI.

Table of contents:

00:00 Introduction
00:38 demonstration of my own small JavaScript synth
02:51 webaudio API (application programmers' interface) overview
05:44 some examples from the web...
05:59 semi-modular virtual analog synth
06:54 acid machine (fun 303 / 808 emulator and sequencer)
07:55 juno 106 emulation
09:28 websynths (this one is worth trying, definitely!)
10:28 comparing Firefox to Edge/Chromium
12:44 is this any useful for musicians?
13:15 trying to build a RasPi hardware synth with this (epic fail)
14:17 bye-bye :-)

Links

Webaudio documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/d...
My own attempt at a subtractive synth (commented source code): https://www.floydsteinberg.com/extens...
jQuery: https://jquery.com/
jQuery webmidi: https://github.com/djipco/webmidi
Webmidi Envelopes: https://github.com/irritant/WebAHDSR
Juno 106: https://juno-106.js.org/
Semi-Modular web synth: https://nextgtrgod.github.io/webaudio...
Acid machine: http://errozero.co.uk/acid-machine/
Web synth: https://websynths.com/"

RC-808 Re-Create the 808 Official Website Update From the Makers of the Original Roland x0x Series

RC-808 Re-Create has a new home with some updates at https://rc-808.com. Click through for the new site. Note RC-808 Re-Create is from the original developers of the Roland TR-808 & x0x series. See this post for a pic of the "Analog Mafia" as they are known, along with some initial details on the project.

Regarding the new site:

"At the moment we are busy developing the VST / AU plug-in versions on Win / Mac environments. We are a very small entity with very much limited workforce, centered around Tadao Kikumoto, the project leader of the vintage TR-808. The sheer amount of parameters derived from the vast 8 partial architecture makes it a tough challenge to realize automation on DAW. Yet still, we will bring the plug-in edition to you very soon.

Again, because we are interested only in distributing our own vision of what we actually wanted the original 808 to be, and as the token of our deepest gratitude to all of our great beautiful fans of the 808, we are providing this as free of charge, still even now, as it was from the beginning of this endeavor.

The 808 is only the beginning. Create your own sonic universe, and voyage across the gulf of sound space from here.

Thank you so much for your patience.
Stay safe, stay healthy, stay cool, and please please do take good care of yourself."

https://rc-808.com/

Novation Circuit Pan Automation

Waveformer

"This video demonstrates pan automation on the Novation Circuit using the Circuit Bender web application available at https://www.waveformer.net/circuitben....

My music on Bandcamp: http://waveformer42.bandcamp.com/

The Novation Circuit is connected by USB to my laptop running the Chrome web browser. The Circuit Bender web application listens to the incoming MIDI messages from the macro controls for Synth 1 and Synth 2 on the Novation Circuit and sends the MIDI messages for synth and drum panning back to the Circuit.

Since macro controls can be recorded and played back by the Circuit, it is possible to achieve pan automation on the Circuit using the Circuit Bender web application. This web application will only work in the Chrome and the Opera web browser, since they support Web MIDI.

This is a hack with some limitations, but it works for me, and I had a lot of fun creating it. Enjoy! And let me know about your experience with this in the comments :-).

Gear:
- Novation Circuit
- Laptop running the Chrome web browser
- Korg Mini Kaoss Pad 2S (for recording)

Connections:
- Circuit connected to the laptop using USB
- Circuit audio - KP2S (for recording)"

HFS - Online Browser Based Harmonic File Synthesizer

Published on Feb 9, 2020 Staeins

"Virtual File Synthesizer created by David Giuseppe Badiane and Miriam Papagno.

APP LINK
https://emmei96.github.io/HFS-harmoni...

pack of mp3 sounds
https://www.mediafire.com/file/rljgcx...

pack of mp3 impulses for the convolver
https://www.mediafire.com/file/pewajz..."

Roland TR8 vs TR-09 vs Cloud - TR909 Comparison

Published on Sep 9, 2019 Starsky Carr

"A quick look to see how the various Roland emulations of its own magnificent 909 compare with each other.

There some speculation about the different technologies and algorithms - this demo is purely looking at IF there are differences between them..

This isn't meant to be a fully fledged demo or review of the drum machines - just looking at if there are sonic differences and if so what are they.. :)

and there are!

Kick 1:20
Snare 5:10
Kick & Snare 6:27
Tuning the Snare 7:18
Open Hat 7:36"

D-50 "Beyond Fantasia" Bank Two

Published on Jul 9, 2019 Roland Cloud

"128 NEW PATCHES FOR THE LEGENDARY INSTRUMENT

Fresh patches that reframe the classic sound of the Roland D-50 in a modern context, harnessing its powerful synthesis engine in new ways. "Beyond Fantasia" collection created and demonstrated by Carma Studio and Symplesound.

Download now: https://rolandcloud.com/catalog/patch..." [getting a 404 at the moment]

DreamPipe - free online micro studio w/ synthersizer & drum machine for Chrome

DreamPipe is a new, free, online synth for Chrome from the creator of Dreampipe Electronium and Space Bumps.

"It's an online micro-studio consisting of four monophonic synths and one drum machine. Loosely based around Sequential Circuits SixTrak. Users can record and share loops and (when it's been developed) export loops to midi and mp3."

You can find it here: https://dreampipe.fun

Keyboard Piano | Drumming (Basic)

Published on Feb 4, 2019 Digithalis

00:14 HiHat (HH), Basedrum (BD), Snaredrum (SD)
00:20 BD + SD
00:36 BD + SD + HH

WebApp: Matrix Piano
Webbrowser: Google Chrome
PC-Keyboard: Razer Ornata
Midi Synthesizer: Korg 05R/W

Follow-up to Keyboard Arpeggios with the Kurzweil Micropiano + PC-Keyboard

Synthfest 2018 Web Audio - VSTs In The Browser

Published on Oct 8, 2018 sonicstate

Web based synthesizers.

Fragment - FM/Additive & Processing.js input

Published on Aug 17, 2018 Fragment Synthesizer

"Fragment is an online collaborative programmable noise-of-all-kinds realtime audio / visual software.

This video demonstrate additive / FM synthesis with the new Processing.js feature (available on GitHub, not yet released) which allow the creation and live-coding of Processing.js sketches inside Fragment.

Sketches are manipulated as a texture inside the fragment shader like any other inputs.

Processing.js is the sister project of the popular Processing visual programming language, it is a powerful language for graphics programming which allow to do any kind of visuals and logic.

You can try the Fragment synthesizer now at : https://www.fsynth.com"

Introducing Modul - web-based MIDI step sequencer from Gibbon Digital

Published on Dec 13, 2017 Gibbon Digital

"Modul is a web-based MIDI step sequencer. It plays well with MIDI capable devices. Think of it as a brain dedicated to control your synthesizers, drum machines and samplers all at once. Because Modul is web-based, it runs on any device with Chrome support. The current version of Modul is for desktop use primarily. You can use Modul on your smartphone or tablet using Chrome and native apps are coming soon for iOS and Android.

Visit http://bit.ly/2ATeSZb to get started.

Features
Web-based, runs in Chrome
Send MIDI note or CC values per step
Set MIDI channel per step and per track
Mute tracks
Adjust the number of steps per track (great for polyrhythm)
Send MIDI clock
Load/Save session"

Crafty Work - by Earmonkey (feat. Betty Boop) - Roland Cloud Electrode Synth

Published on Apr 25, 2018 Earmonkey Music

"A bit of Kraftwerk inspiration and messing with some of the Roland Cloud Electrode Synth with some TR-808 and TR-909. It's fun and easy to create with this Roland Cloud stuff and I really do like it quite a lot."

Some details on Roland Cloud Electrode Synth:

Features

Sonically Shocking
Inspired by the Complextro sub-genre of Electro House (or Electro) music, Electrode is a proud addition to the FLAVR Series of virtual instruments. Roland Cloud has once again joined forces with a very prominent artist in the space, James Egbert, to bring you 47 all-new and shockingly brilliant patches:

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Fragment - Abstract ambient JAM - Subtractive / Karplus / PM / Additive / Granular

Published on Apr 14, 2018 Fragment Synthesizer

You can find additional posts featuring examples of Fragment here.

"Fragment is an online collaborative additive / spectral / granular / subtractive / PM synthesizer and live-coding web. platform, the spectrum is created by a live GPU script, the generated visual is then converted to audio by an additive/granular/spectral/subtractive/PM process, Fragment is basically a programmable noise-of-all-kinds software.

This is a video of a live jam session featuring all types of synthesis (in order : subtractive / physical modelling / additive-fm / granular) supported by Fragment and the improved subtractive synthesis algorithm (Poly BLEP) which allow fast and anti-aliased subtractive synthesis, this is still WIP (problems with filter resonance) but quite usable as demonstrated with several acid-like patterns!

Renoise DAW is used in the background to output audio + MIDI out and add reverb / delay (Fragment is also used for delay effects).

4 instances of the sound server are used on an Intel i7 7700, 14Gb of RAM and a gtx 970 GPU.

Videos used in this session :

KYKLOP by MFX : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjxZQ...

The butterfly effect - Andromeda Software Development (ASD) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF-eV...

Shader used & modified : https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XtsBDf

You can try the Fragment synthesizer now at : https://www.fsynth.com

Documentation: https://www.fsynth.com/documentation

Forum : https://quiet.fsynth.com"