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24 alternatives to Oscillator Bank / Spectral Synthesizer
C Pixels-based graphical audio synthesizer implemented as a WebSocket server - grz0zrg/fas
Oscillator Bank is a spectral synthesizer tool launched in 2020 that creates sound through multiple oscillators. It is designed for musicians and sound designers who want to synthesize and manipulate audio using… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Oscillator Bank / Spectral Synthesizer launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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C Pixels-based graphical audio synthesizer implemented as a WebSocket server - grz0zrg/fas
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tones is a simple, open, collaborative music-making platform. All tones are created using the built-in synthesizer.
2018 · tones.fm · its alternatives →
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I built a synthesizer based on 3D physicsfree tier, from $99/mo▲512I've been working on the Anukari 3D Physics Synthesizer for a little over two years now. It's one of the earliest virtual instruments to rely on the GPU for audio processing, which has been incredibly challenging and fun. In the end, predictably, the GUI for manipulating the 3D system actually ended up being a lot more work than the physics simulation. So far I am only selling it direct on my website, which seems to be working well. I hope to turn it into a sustainable business, and ideally I'd have enough revenue to hire folks to help with it. So far it's been 99% a solo project, with…
2025 · anukari.com · its alternatives →
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Keyboard-controlled music sequencer, sampler, and synth - kofigumbs/typebeat
2022 · github.com · 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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Studio2600 for the Atari VCS / Atari 2600 – Online demo powered by Javatari
2018 · masswerk.at · its alternatives →
- 10AW
NoiseCraft is an open source, visual programming language and platform for sound synthesis and music making, with the goal of creating a community for the open exchange of musical ideas. The design is loosely inspired by PureData, Max/MSP as well as other visual programming languages. NoiseCraft is
2022 · noisecraft.app · its alternatives →
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An intuitive 64-step drum sequencer progressive web app built using React, Redux, and Tone.js
2021 · sequencer64.com · its alternatives →
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Synth, drum kit, a 4-track tape loop, and FX app
Aug 2026 · apps.apple.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 →
- 14IV
2023 · webfft.net · 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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2015 · amid.fish · 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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Modular Eurorack style synthesizer made with Web Audio - spectrome/patchcab
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 19WA
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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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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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 →
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2018 · zynaddsubfx.sf.net · its alternatives →
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2017 · inverted3.gitlab.io · its alternatives →
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