- Realtime Annotations & Visualizations in Live Coding Performance: An interactive essay/paper from Charlie Roberts who is doing fascinating work in the live-coding space. Charlie’s Gibber environment embeds visualisations directly into the code editor to make the live-coding experience more musical.
- standardized-audio-context: Chris Guttandin’s perennially useful
standardized-audio-context smooths out the inconsistencies between browser implementations of the Web Audio API so you can just “code to the spec”. Recent commits have added (in a very clever way) support for the PannerNode in Safari.
- Kord: A warm-sounding chord synth that puts the emphasis on harmonic names (I, II, ii, I6 etc). The little cog icon allows lots of tweaking of the synth’s parameters.
- WDS-1: Web Drum Sequencer: An addictive, well-implemented drum sequencer with some pleasing presets.
- An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms: A novel, animated introduction to Fourier Transforms and their uses - including in audio.
- Sequential Cross-Fade Visualizer: An interesting visualisation of a method for cross fading between multiple sound sources.
- Trigger Riot: A work-in-progress Web Audio implementation of the “clock divider, clock multiplier, step injector, time shifter, clock shifter, pulse-width modulator, … arithmetic probability processor” eurorack module thing.
- Safari, Firefox, Edge, Chrome: How To Stream Real Time Lossless Audio: A detailed look at how to stream lossless audio to browsers from the mixanalog team.
- MIDI 2.0™: The name for the next generation of MIDI has been decided and after what must have taken considerable deliberation they’ve chosen “MIDI 2.0”. More excitingly there’s a whole host of new features (auto-configuration, new DAW/web integrations, extended resolution, increased expressiveness, tighter timing) to update the venerable old standard for the future.
- One Minute Jazz Lesson: I hadn’t seen these until Rob put me on to them. Now I can’t unsee them.