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Patatap

LULLATONE / JONO BRANDEL

Patatap (which we first saw way back in issue 14) is a collaboration between Jono Brandel and the band Lullatone. To celebrate its 7th anniversary(!) the team have released an updated version with MIDI support. There's a companion video demoing integration with synths and Abelton.

Keyfinder

DOĞA YÜKSEL

Keyfinder detects the musical key of live audio input or an uploaded audio file. Under the hood it uses the libkeyfinder library compiled to WebAssembly to run in the browser.

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Coded Illustrations

ZACH LIEBERMAN

I really enjoyed this article about the work and practice of a creative coder tasked with creating an illustration for the New York Times magazine.

Fractal Music Machine

ERIKA NESSE

An explanation and collection of resources and demos about the use of self-similarity and fractals in computer music. I heard about this via the wonderful Caesura Letter.

Guthman Musical Instrument Competition

GEORGIA TECH

For it's 7th annual edition, the Moog Hackathon welcomed 12 student teams that accepted the challenge to design and build novel musical instruments using Moog platforms and other software and hardware prototyping tools.

Some really interesting experiements and ideas from this recent competition, including a number that use web technologies.

Grovity - Microtiming sequencer

RAPHAËL BASTIDE

Grovity is a web-based sequencer with a focus on making it easy to work with micro-timings - tiny deviations from the sequencer's grid. The sequencer has MIDI output, and examples of how to integrate it with hardware via websockets.

One day short of a full chain

MAN YUE MO

A detailed write up a browser security exploitation (now fixed) that used a bug in the Web Audio implementation on Android's Chrome browser. A reminder of why it can take a long time for proposed technology to appear in browser implementations. This stuff is hard!

Sounds of the Pub

COGS & MARVEL

Pick just the right mix of fireplace, traditional music and old man sounds to recreate the ambience of your favourite local.