Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Waveforms
An interactive, educational guide to the physics of sound
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Waveforms launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A fresh new take on sound wave art
2016 · soundviz.com · its alternatives →
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Wave▲73A fast, minimalistic gesture-based music player app
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Music learning app from theory to composition
2017 · flat.io · its alternatives →
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KRFT 1.5.0▲110A modular instrument for music production
2017 · studioamplify.com · its alternatives →
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A discussion on sound and how we hear things
2015 · americanpublicmedia.org · its alternatives →
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2019 · jakewilson.github.io · 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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Tone.js▲7A framework for creating interactive music in the browser
2017 · tonejs.github.io · its alternatives →
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Capo▲85A new way to analyze and learn to play music
2014 · supermegaultragroovy.com · its alternatives →
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