Issue 97
- The heavy hvcc compiler for Pure Data patches: A new compiler for Pure Data patches which targets a number of platforms including Unity, VST and, using a ScriptProcessor, Web Audio. This is a mature and full-featured toolchain which allows PD users to build sound applications for multiple platforms, and work is underway to target Emscripten and AudioWorklet.
- r-audio: Declarative, reactive and flexible Web Audio graphs in React: A new declarative, react/web-component based framework for building audio applications from BBC R&D. The full code and detailed examples are on github.
- Bellwoods: An immersive game in just 13kb of JavaScript featuring a generative Web Audio soundtrack.
- WDS-1: Web Drum Sequencer: A cool drum-sequencer built with React and Web Audio.
- Hacklily sheet music editor: A port of Lillypond to the browser to allow creation of beautiful, professionally-typeset sheet music.
- Create Electronic Dance Music with JavaScript: A great talk from Walmik Deshpande at the April meeting of js.la.
- textbeat: A plain-text sequencer and interactive music environment based on the Tracker paradigm.
- p5.js Web Editor: The folks behind the Processing language have released a new web-based interactive programming environment.
- The Mellotron In Action: The Mellotron was a tape-loop “sampler”. It’s flute sound will be familiar if you’ve ever heard Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles. This video is a fun walk-through of how the Mellotron worked.
- It’s hard to know why music gives pleasure: is that the point?: “We know music is pleasurable, the question is why? Many answers have been proposed: perhaps none are quite right.”