Web-based Music and Sound synthesis - Survey?

If you've never seen Andre Michelle's Tone Matrix, prepare to be absorbed: lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix Also, Sonoflash is apparently providing 100% generated sounds - all of their samples are basically AS3 code, manipulating sound data and then creating the sound. If I understand correctly. Check them out here: blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/09/sono....

Also you have PixelBender at your disposal to help out with number crunching/signal processing. It's fast and runs in a separate thread – George Profenza Feb 23 '10 at 16:07 Having messed around with AudioTool I can say it's an amazing little application. – Damien Wilson Feb 23 '10 at 17:31 thanks a lot George!

You do some amazing work yourself. I gave Myk the correct answer as he needs some more points. But I would have given both the correct answer else.

Thanks! – jacob Feb 24 '10 at 18:43 no worries, that is a great answer, I couldn't just duplicate it :) It it helps, also have a look at Michael Jewell's audio effects library: pixelboob. Com/2008/12/audio-effects-in-flash-10 and the standing wave library: code.google.Com/p/standingwave .

Goodluck! – George Profenza Feb 25 '10 at 8:16 That's awesome! – Jason Roberts Feb 25 '10 at 12:16.

You should definitely check this out: blog.jactionscripters.com/2009/10/02/sio... greetz back2dos.

I created a drum machine in Silverlight: dontcodetired.com/live/thunder which runs better (i. E in time) on some hardware\browsers, and i've seen some examples of actual synthesis (oscillator wave gen) also in SL. I guess the problem is audio synthesis (oscillators, filters, effects, etc) can be quite CPU intensive, as opposed to sample playback which is more ram\disk laden.

If browsers\plug-ins could be given full access to low level hardware then I guess it would be more viable - but would introduce security concerns... As we scale out over more cores and all move to 64 bit I suppose will continue to be able to do more of this cpu intensive stuff in-browser. Interesting question though...

While this isn't the primary point of novelty for it, I think it still qualifies... JSNES is a NES emulator written entirely in JavaScript. What makes this interesting for this discussion is that it also emulates the sound, by communicating with a Flash applet to actually play back the sound. On my machine (using Google Chrome for testing), I get noticeable lag in the sound, so I don't think it's really "ready for primetime" yet - I wouldn't consider it really playable with the issues I'm seeing, but I think this is a great sign that it's getting more and more feasible, and if you didn't have the overhead of emulating everything else about the system, I think it would be possible to get a perfectly decent result.

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