Explore Audiotool's collection of synthesizers, drum machines, and effects. From powerful synths like Heisenberg and Pulverisateur to classic drum machines and professional effects.
Learning Synths | Hacker News
It teaches you step by step all the aspects of a synth engine: oscillators, wave shapes, amplitude, filters, modulation, unison, FM… But most of all it trains your ear, which allows you to replicate the sound in your head and build it from scratch.
Open source modular synth software lets you create 70s & 80s electronic music | Hacker News
Hardware is much more hands on, with real dials, switches, and other means of physical interaction which screens and mice don't come close to matching. Hardware does exist through which musicians can interact with computers, but it's usually MIDI, which has its own limitations compared to fully analog gear.
Mutable Instruments Rings triggered by drums
Arturia - Sound Explorers | Hardware & Software Instruments
Become a Sound Explorer. We craft innovative hardware synths, MIDI controllers, virtual instruments and effects for today's musicians. Explore the collection.
Csound: A sound and music computing system | Hacker News
Max & Pd are fantastic for incorporating sensors & other physical interfaces, real-time interactivity, routing signals, creating visualizations, & all that. Supercollider is fantastic for generative music & using control flow compositionally.
This AI guitar pedal let me roll my own effects
That new sound you’ve been looking for?
Free, Open Source Modular Synth Software Lets You Create 70s & 80s Electronic Music—Without Having to Pay Thousands for a Real-World Synthesizer
In the past decade or so, the analog modular synth—of the kind pioneered by Robert Moog and Don Buchla—has made a comeback, creating a booming niche market full of musicians chasing the sounds of the 70s and 80s.
Deep Learning for Guitar Effect Emulation
Since the 1940s, electric guitarists, keyboardists, and other instrumentalists have been using effects pedals, devices that modify the sound of the original audio source. Typical effects include distortion, compression, chorus, reverb, and delay. Early effects pedals consisted of basic analog circuits, often along with vacuum tubes, which were later replaced with transistors. Although many pedals today apply effects digitally with modern signal processing techniques, many purists argue that the sound of analog pedals can not be replaced by their digital counterparts. We’ll follow a deep learning approach to see if we can use machine learning to replicate the sound of an iconic analog effect pedal, the Ibanez Tube Screamer. This post will be mostly a reproduction of the work done by Alec Wright et al. in Real-Time Guitar Amplifier Emulation with Deep Learning (Wright et al., 2020).
DIY synths database
Curated collection of DIY-friendly hardware synthesizers and related musical equipment you can build on your own. All open source.
Free Online Music Maker & DAW – Make Music in Your Browser | Audiotool
Audiotool is a 100% free, browser-based DAW with no track or feature caps. Build modular signal chains, run VST3 plugins, and collaborate in real time — no install.
Serum 2: wavetable champ becomes much more in huge, free update - CDM Create Digital Music
Serum 2, 11 years in development, is here. And it looks ready to take on its rivals, with an updated interface, arpeggiator expanded oscillator architecture (phase distortion!), granular and multisampler and spectral oscillators, new effects features, and - surprise, even a clip sequencer. It's really an all-in-one synth now without sacrificing its trademark accessibility. Here's everything in a nutshell.
lfnoise/sapf
Sound As Pure Form - a Forth-like language for audio synthesis using lazy lists and APL-like auto-mapping.
