This is a web-based synthesizer. Wherever you have a web browser (Chrome or Safari), there you can play music! The application has 2 main parts: the control panel, and the keyboards.
This application is created during Static Showdown 2015, a 48-hour worldwide hackathon to create a static website. Visit the hackathon entry page. This application won the Best Use of Web Components prize. This application is hosted by Divshot.io.
- Safari on Mac OS X 10.10
- Safari on iOS 8.1
- Google Chrome 40
You'll see 3 rows of keyboard, which you can click to play notes. The note will go through each unit (in the control panel) and will result in some sound.
- Clicking on the on-screen keyboard.
- Touching the keys on the keyboard (e.g. when using iPad).
- Pressing the keys on your computer keyboard.
- Using Chrome Canary with Web MIDI API flag enabled (chrome://flags), playing notes on your MIDI keyboard (the synthesizer also responds to velocity in this case)
The control panel is where you can control how the synthesizer will sound like. You also manage presets there.
- Load: Click to load a preset.
- Save: Click to save the configuration as a preset. It will be local to your browser only.
- Share: Click to share the configuration. When clicked, the synthesizer will generate a URL that you can share with others.
- Transpose: Transpose all played notes (useful when you want to change keys). Drag left/right to change value.
- Octave: Shift all notes by amount of octaves. Drag left/right to change value.
- Click on the "+" sign (shown when you hover the "→" between two units) and select the type of unit you want to add.
- Click on the "▼" of the unit's title bar, and select "Remove."
- Most parameters can be adjusted by dragging. While dragging, the value will be displayed.
- Knob: drag in the direction you want the knob to point to.
- Slider: drag up/down to change value. drag left/right for more fine-grained control.
- Number: drag left/right to change value. drag up/down for more coarse-grained control.