Learn the properties of 5 basic waveforms in sound synthesis to use their full potential in your synthesizer performance or design.
Getting Started Making Music | Notion
There are four elements of formula you need to make music.
What is a harmonic? An interactive comic about additive synthesis
Where do harmonics even come from? Learn about additive synthesis and play with interactive string modes.
Cuelume. Interaction sounds for the web
Cuelume is a tiny, dependency-free library of carefully designed interaction sounds, synthesized live with Web Audio.
Tone.js
Tone.js is a Web Audio framework for creating interactive music in the browser. The architecture of Tone.js aims to be familiar to both musicians and audio programmers creating web-based audio applications. On the high-level, Tone offers common DAW (digital audio workstation) features like a global transport for synchronizing and scheduling events as well as prebuilt synths and effects. Additionally, Tone provides high-performance building blocks to create your own synthesizers, effects, and complex control signals.
Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer
How did Jimi Hendrix turn his guitar into a wave synthesizer? Dive into the engineering behind his iconic sound.
Unit Circle Trigonometry - haitham
An interactive sketch for visualizing sine and cosine functions with the unit circle
Pluck
This is an interactive string simulator that uses basic Fourier math to generate audio & visuals according to where on the string you pluck from. The audio math is done on the GPU in WebGL
A dispatch from the dawn of the electronic music age | Aeon Videos
These days, synthesised sound is easy to access – but early electronic music pioneers had to get hands on to produce it
Sonic Tau
Live code your music in the browser. A working technical demo by Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi.
Soundshed - Guitar Tones & Jam
Soundshed is an app to control your guitar amp, browse and manage tones, jam with video backing tracks. Works with the Positive Grid Spark 40.
Mutable Instruments Rings triggered by drums
The Sound Lab Is a Simple Analog Synth
David Johnson-Davies' single-board synth works without a microcontroller.
