Neiro N106 Plugin: Digital Emulation & Real Hardware Render | Sound Demo

video upload by Davide Puxeddu

"In this video, I showcase the true power of the Neiro Audio N106 plugin. We are doing a direct comparison: Digital Emulation vs Real Analog Hardware Render! You will hear the huge difference when the digital preset is suddenly processed through the actual analog circuitry.

How does it work? The N106 is not just a standard VST. You compose your track using their high-quality digital emulation without any streaming latency. Once your MIDI and automations are locked in, the plugin sends your data directly to Neiro Studios. There, it is fed through a real physical Roland Juno-106 (specifically a hardware Kiwi 106 synth). The analog output is recorded using high-end RME Fireface UCX interfaces and automatically downloaded right back into your DAW as a WAV audio file. It's exactly like owning the real vintage analog synthesizer remotely.

To sit perfectly in a mix, I've also processed these sounds through external hardware-style reverb and delay.

🎧 Best experienced with studio monitors or high-quality headphones.

More Info: https://neiroaudio.com"

"Connect to a classic analog synthesizer revered for its lush, warm sounds. The Neiro N106 features a rich chorus effect that’s instantly recognizable from classic tracks like 'Jump' and 'Tom Sawyer'.

Connect directly to the Roland Juno-106 unit today."

Meet ARGISH - A Synth That Plays Itself w/o AI

Via the creator of ARGISH:

"I make instruments at Tunary Instruments, and I built ARGISH — a synth that scores itself.

The part I care about most: there's no AI in it. No trained models, no 'make me a track' button. It's real synthesis and real music theory — you pick a few chords and draw the shape of the piece, and ARGISH does the craft: voicing the pads, weaving the arpeggios, laying bass and a real sampled guitar, building and resolving like an actual score. You stay the author — it just takes the grind off your hands. In a world flooding with AI-generated music, this one stays organic: human-directed, made by ear.

Easiest to feel the difference in your browser — no download, no signup: tunaryinstruments.com/play"

It's also available as an AU/VST3/Standalone for Mac & Windows

Meet YPC - An Online MPC Like YouTube Slice and Trigger Player

This one is in via Ivan Trajkovic aka deejayiwan.

You can find it at https://ypc2000.fun

It's pretty self explanatory. Just give it the ID of any YouTube video in the top YouTube URL field and trigger the pads for different clips, then explore the rest of the controls. Essentially you can sample splice any YouTube video and audio. I'm not seeing the ability to loop samples or the ability to set the length individually - the sample length appears to be global for all pads.

knob.monster: A Browser-Native Cloud SysEx Librarian for Vintage Synths

via https://knob.monster

"knob.monster is a modern, zero-driver web application designed to backup, edit, and organize patches on vintage hardware synthesizers directly from a web browser. Leveraging the Web MIDI API, the platform eliminates the need for legacy desktop software, custom USB-MIDI drivers, or manual command-line SysEx utilities.

Key Features:

Zero Installation: Runs directly in any Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Edge, Opera).

Instant Cloud Backup: Safely store your custom patch banks in a secure cloud vault.

Automatic Parsing: Upload SysEx files to instantly view, rename, and sort individual patches inside the bank.

Supported Hardware: Launching with full support for the Yamaha DX7, Roland Juno-106, and Korg M1, with Casio CZ, Prophet-5, and Matrix-1000 in active beta."

Introduction to the Smol Sequencer

video upload by stretta

http://stretta.com/labs/smol/

LOOPA release | web simulator | AI studio

video upload by ferluht

"In the previous video I said that the next vid should be a release announcement - so it is :)

Check out the simulator and creator studio at https://aftersound.tech

Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
1:07 - Simulator
1:43 - Studio
2:51 - Community devices"

MICROWORLD INNOVATION STATION Online SYNTHESIZERS AND INSTRUMENTS

https://microworld.space

This one was spotted and sent in via Ivan Trajkovic aka deejayiwan.

As the title states, it's a collection of online synths and instruments grouped by the following sections: SYNTHESIZERS AND INSTRUMENTS, DRUM MACHINES AND SEQUENCERS, VIDEO AND DJ, and UTILITIES AND TOOLS.

Pictured:

MEGAPARSEC 4-PART MULTITIMBRAL SYNTHESIZER WITH GATE SEQUENCER.

NIGHT TRAIN ATMOSPHERIC SYNTHESIZER FOR AMBIENT SOUNDSCAPES.

ROBODRUM 64-STEP DRUM SEQUENCER.

BASS-X BASSLINE SYNTHESIZER WITH STEP SEQUENCER.

MICROTONE MODULAR SYNTHESIZER WITH DRAG-AND-DROP PATCHING.

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WebSynthPro Online Synth

This one is in via Ivan Trajkovic aka deejayiwan.

He previously brought us Space Synth.

Per Ivan: "I made another synth, this one has presets and more straightforward controls..."

You can check it out at https://circlesynth.created.app.

Use your keyboard to trigger notes.

Space Synth 8-bit Glitch Synthesizer

This one is in via Ivan Trajkovic aka de3jayiwan

"I made a new online 'glitch synth' with seq, randomizer and slider controls"

You can find it here.

A.I. Experiments: The Infinite Drum Machine

video upload by Google for Developers

"Check out https://g.co/aiexperiments to learn more.

Sounds are complex and vary widely. This experiment uses machine learning to organize thousands of everyday sounds. The computer wasn’t given any descriptions or tags – only the audio. Using a technique called t-SNE, the computer placed similar sounds closer together. You can use the map to explore neighborhoods of similar sounds and even make beats using the drum sequencer. http://g.co/aiexperiments

Built by Kyle McDonald, Manny Tan, Yotam Mann, and friends at Google Creative Lab. Thanks to the London Philharmonia for contributing some sounds to this project. t-SNE animation featured in video by Gene Kogan.

More resources:
https://github.com/lvdmaaten/bhtsne
http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/explore...
http://ml4a.github.io"

This one is in via Ivan Trajkovic aka deejayiwan.

A couple of screenshots for the archives:

New Binary Synth Allows You to Play Binary Code Within Any Given File

video upload by Max Alyokhin

This should go without saying, but don't drop any sensitive, private, or personal files.

"Demo: https://bs.stranno.su

Source code and application principle: https://github.com/MaxAlyokhin/binary...

A web-synthesizer that generates sound from the binary code of any files. It can synthesize sound directly in the browser, or be a generator of MIDI messages to external devices or DAWs, turning any file into a score. All the application code is written in Javascript and along with everything you need is packed into a single .html file of about 750kb. The synthesizer doesn't need internet, it can be downloaded and run locally on any device with a browser.

0:00 Speed changes
0:57 Noise/IDM (with Ableton processing)
3:16 IDM (with Ableton processing)
4:39 Drone/Ambient (without any processing, 5 instances)
15:49 Drone/Ambient (without any processing, 2 instances)
20:17 Drone (with Ableton processing)
21:10 Drone/Ambient (with Ableton processing)
24:46 Postminimalism/Aleatoric (MIDI to Ableton virtual synthesizer)
25:31 Glitch (MIDI to Ableton virtual sampler)

On 24:46 is "Composition for prepared file of the own source code", you can listen full here:"

Composition for prepared file of the own source code

video upload by Max Alyokhin

0:00 I
9:35 II
11:51 III
18:24 IV
20:13 V
23:06 VI
26:08 VII

All data on any computer or smartphone is in the form of files. The contents of these files are ultimately just zeros and ones. And these zeros and ones are basically all the same, so we need an interpreter to extract meaning from these texts. Basically, the file format (.mp3, .docx, etc.) is just a pointer to which interpreter we need to pass the text in order to extract meaning from it.

But what if the file format and the interpreter don't match? In the case of musical experimentation, there have been earlier attempts, for example, to "play" a file through an audio editor, which expectedly produced mostly glitch and noise; it might be more interesting from a conceptual than a musical point of view.

We could go further and write our own interpreter that would look at the files without regard to format, use its own "manner of reading" the original zeros and ones, and on that basis provide a complete system for controlled synthesis of sounds.

The tool, called Binary synth, is available at: https://bs.stranno.su.

The application is a web synthesizer that runs in the browser and is written in Javascript. All the application code along with everything needed is packed into a single .html file of about 750kb.

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Chromaplane Tuning Website Jam

video upload by Perplex On

"I am really fascinated by the #chromaplane @koma_elektronik but couldn’t justify the purchase yet. But while surfing their website i stumbled across the chromaplane tuning website and couldn’t stop playing with it. 😄 A poor-man’s version of the real deal if you will 😅 In this case, the ipad just mirrors the website and the pen replaces the mouse, which feels even a bit closer to holding the pickup mic of the real thing. By using #blackhole loopback audio driver i was able to add reverb to it and record everything in Ableton."

CYBER SYNTH ⚡ 3-Oscillator Neural Network Synthesizer

via the creator: "I've been reading Matrixsynth for over a decade... Now, i made my own chip-tune synth that works in a browser, computer or smartphone... 3 OSC, LFO, FX, Arp..."

Check it out here: https://chiptuneneo.created.app

Sunday Jam #48 Flute improvisation in Ambient Garden

video upload by MIDI IN

"'Pierre Cusa's Ambient Garden is a beautiful thing which "explores new ways of creating and conveying music created entirely with code'
https://ambient.garden
This week I've done some work on producing my steamdrunk track for Amiga, and for this week's jam, spent half an hour in the Ambient Garden, playing some improvisations on a bamboo flute along the way."

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 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."

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)

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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.