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PLINK!

DINAHMOE

A venerable old-timer of the Web Audio world, PLINK! from Dinahmoe studies was one of the first Web Audio-powered apps to go viral, combining multi-player game mechanics with a banging synth engine. It's now had an update with a new design, invitation rooms to jam with your friends and more. Dinahmoe founder Johan Belin has the backstory.

Wavacity

ADAM HILSS

A port of the open-source audio editor Audacity to the web. All of the familiar effect and analysis tools are here.

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Enhanced noise suppression in Jitsi Meet

SAÚL IBARRA CORRETGÉ

Jitsi, the open-source online video conferencing tool, recently used AudioWorklets to implement a much-improved RNNoise-based noise suppression algorithm for voice calls. This blog post walks through some of the implementation details.

Acid Hit

CANTON BECKER

Created in collaboration with algorithmic visual artist Jeffrey Ventrella, each 30 second Acid Hit is a love letter to the Roland TB-303 Bass Synthesizer.

JavaScript for Sound Artists (2nd ed)

WILLIAM TURNER

CRC Press have just published an updated second edition of William Turner's book JavaScript for Sound Artists (Amazon link). It looks like it'd make a solid introduction to programming for someone who is motivated by building audio/musical applications.

Trebble

TREBBLE

Trebble allows you to edit recorded audio by working with the text transcription, just like you would in a text editor. Cuts and edits to the text are reflected in the audio.

C64 Theremin

LINUS ÅKESSON

I used a C64, two 555s, four resistors, a spoon, and a clamp to build a working Theremin