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24 alternatives to The first websynth that's 100% mappable to a MIDI controller

Emulation of the Roland Juno-106 analog synth. Contribute to stevengoldberg/juno106 development by creating an account on GitHub.

106.js is a web-based emulation of the Roland Juno-106 analog synthesizer that can be fully mapped to MIDI controllers. It allows users to control all synthesizer parameters through external hardware, making it… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The first websynth that's 100% mappable to a MIDI controller launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    106.js▲5

    Javascript emu of the classic Roland Juno-106 synthesizer.

    2016 · juno-106.js.org · its alternatives →

  2. 2AJ

    SYNTHI-JS is a JavaScript emulation of the legendary EMS Synthi A analog synthesizer.

    2016 · alexnisnevich.github.io · its alternatives →

  3. 3T1
  4. 4IB

    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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    Studio2600 for the Atari VCS / Atari 2600 – Online demo powered by Javatari

    2018 · masswerk.at · its alternatives →

  6. 6IB

    Originally started as a project to restore patterns from now defunct website 808.pixll.de just for myself, but eventually i decided to share it with others. I've seen this website mentioned a couple of times on HN:) Currently it only supports Roland TR-808, but there will be more.

    2025 · drumpatterns.onether.com · its alternatives →

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    TR-808 drum machine and TB-303 bass synthesizer emulator

    2020 · roland50.studio · its alternatives →

  8. 8R4

    2015 · barakchamo.github.io · its alternatives →

  9. 9AS
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    Libre music sequencer for desktop and mobile platforms - helio-fm/helio-sequencer

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Do things with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI pedalboard in MacOS - JamesRyanATX/fcbnerd

    Sep 2026 · github.com · 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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    Keyboard-controlled music sequencer, sampler, and synth - kofigumbs/typebeat

    2022 · github.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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    IE's cross platform midi map editor for arbitrary controllers - GitHub - Interactive-Echoes/IEMidi: IE's cross platform midi map editor for arbitrary controllers

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A synth piano synth that generates all of its audio files dynamically using JavaScript and data URIs. Choose from a variety of sounds styles and play with the looper, visual waveforms, and more.

    2012 · mrcoles.com · its alternatives →

  18. 18PW

    Web audio based synth, play it with the computer keyboard or a MIDI keyboard.

    2017 · errozero.co.uk · its alternatives →

  19. 19MY
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    Hi HN! We're a small team in Lille (France) who make synthesizers and MIDI controllers. We've just released a virtual plugin version of our hardware synth Anyma Phi, which offers a semi-modular environment with a focus on physical models, although there are several other kinds of synthesis. Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6efDQ9GmRpg We're not pivoting to VSTs, it's just that it was a practical way of investigating several issues and helping us with the ongoing development of our upcoming Kickstarter-backed synth (Anyma Omega) and MPE controller (Loom), and a…

    2024 · aodyo.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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    Jerrica is a small, bare bones, 100% scheduled, web audio native, MOD player designed to be embedded in Javascript games - trevorjay/Jerrica

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23KS
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    An HTML version of a Roland TR-909

    2015 · its alternatives →

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