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24 alternatives to FAS – C distributed Real-Time graphical audio synthesizer server
C Pixels-based graphical audio synthesizer implemented as a WebSocket server - grz0zrg/fas
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. FAS – C distributed Real-Time graphical audio synthesizer server launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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C Pixels-based graphical audio synthesizer implemented as a WebSocket server - grz0zrg/fas
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A powerful realtime node-based audio synthesizer. Contribute to monadgroup/axiom development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’ve been working on a browser-based tool for exploring and debugging Web Audio API graphs. Web Audio Studio lets you write real Web Audio API code, run it, and see the runtime graph it produces as an interactive visual representation. Instead of mentally tracking connect() calls, you can inspect the actual structure of the graph, follow signal flow, and tweak parameters while the audio is playing. It includes built-in visualizations for common node types — waveforms, filter responses, analyser time and frequency views, compressor transfer curves, waveshaper distortion, spatial…
Mar 2026 · webaudio.studio · its alternatives →
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Hi, I'm the author of this little Web Audio toy which does physical modeling synthesis using a simple spring-mass system. My current area of research is in sparse, event-based encodings of musical audio (https://blog.cochlea.xyz/sparse-interpretable-audio-codec-pa...). I'm very interested in decomposing audio signals into a description of the "system" (e.g., room, instrument, vocal tract, etc.) and a sparse "control signal" which describes how and when energy is injected into that system. This toy was a great way to start learning about physical modeling synthesis, which seems…
2025 · blog.cochlea.xyz · its alternatives →
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Draw.Audio is a free online music maker. Draw notes on a grid and hear them play back instantly — a browser-based synthesizer, sequencer, and visual instrument.
2024 · draw.audio · its alternatives →
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Web-based collaborative real-time audiovisual live coding environment with pixels based image-synth approach to sound synthesis.
2021 · fsynth.com · its alternatives →
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In 2020, Magenta released DDSP [1], a machine learning algorithm / python library which made it possible to generate good sounding instrument synthesizers from about 6-10 minutes of data. While working with DDSP for a project, we realised how it was actually quite hard to find 6-10 minute of clean recordings of monophonic instruments. In this project, we have combined the DDSP architecture with a domain adaptation technique from speech synthesis [2]. This domain adaptation technique works by pre-training our model on many different recordings from the Solos dataset [3] first and then…
2022 · erlj.notion.site · its alternatives →
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Experiments with tech and their record on the internet
2018 · ashishdubey.xyz · its alternatives →
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A real-time transcription project using React and socketio - GitHub - saharmor/realtime-transcription-playground: A real-time transcription project using React and socketio
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 12R4
2015 · barakchamo.github.io · its alternatives →
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If you already know what bytebeat is, you don't need an explanation. If not, check my project :) Here is how it looks: SELECT mono(output( arraySum(x -> 1 / 6 * running_envelope(30 * (1 + x / 6), time, 0.05 * x, 0.005, lfo(0, 0.25, sine_wave, time / 8), 0.1) * sine_wave(time * 80 * exp2(x / 3)), range(12)))) FROM table; To check how it sounds, find the examples in the repository https://github.com/ClickHouse/NoiSQL
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Musikcube▲107A fully functional terminal-based music player
2017 · musikcube.com · its alternatives →
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Emulation of the Roland Juno-106 analog synth. Contribute to stevengoldberg/juno106 development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Zyphra Zonos▲134Highly expressive TTS model with high fidelity voice cloning
2025 · zyphra.com · its alternatives →
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Made an MCP server that lets you design sounds on the Digitone 2 synth with natural language — real-time control over MIDI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXf6lOTjla8
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I’m an ex-Google engineer trying to get back into music production. I needed a way to sequence my hardware synths using AI contexts without constantly switching windows, so I built this. It runs entirely in the browser using WebMIDI. No login required. It connects to your local MIDI devices (if you're on Chrome/Edge) and lets you generate patterns. Tech stack: [React / WebMIDI API / etc]. Link: www.simplychris.ai/droplets Code is a bit messy, but it works. Feedback welcome.
Dec 2025 · simplychris.ai · its alternatives →
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AOO is a lightweight and flexible peer-to-peer audio streaming and messaging solution. It allows to send audio and messages in real-time and on demand between network endpoints - not only in local networks, but also over the public internet! The C/C++ library can be easily embedded in host applications or plugins. It even runs on embedded devices, such as the ESP32. In addition, the project contains a Pure Data external and a SuperCollider extension. The following article provides a high level introduction and demonstrates some use cases:…
2024 · aoo.iem.sh · its alternatives →
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Last April I shared about my Resonate project here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43694157) A lot has happened since: the work I presented in much more detail at last June's International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) got best paper award. I also gave a talk at the Audio Developer Conference in Bristol last November, the video is on YouTube). This year's work, which I recently presented at this year's ICMC, starts with known techniques from the phase vocoder literature to build self-tuning filter banks that extract very efficiently the frequency components that are…
2025 · alexandrefrancois.org · its alternatives →
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This is part of my journey on pybind11. I wrote a tiny FM Synthesis library in C++ and a Python wrapper for that using pybind11. There is a command-line piano app in the examples directory if you want to play with it. Here is the link: https://github.com/charstorm/koelsynth/tree/main/examples/si... My next target is to attach this to some kind of physics simulation - like a bunch of balls moving around in a box with some internal walls. When the ball hits certain trigger points, it produces the sound.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 23TZ
2018 · zynaddsubfx.sf.net · its alternatives →
- 24IM
just a wack systems dude tbh
2018 · h313.info · its alternatives →
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