Tinkersynth 2.0 (now with color and open-sourced)
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Tinkersynth 2.0 (now with color and open-sourced) launched on May 1, 2019 with 52 votes, #816 of 3,072 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.
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Tinkersynth 2.0 is an interactive music and visual creation tool for people who enjoy experimenting with sound and color. Users can generate unique compositions by tweaking parameters that control both audio synthesis and visual output simultaneously. The software is now open-sourced, allowing developers to examine and modify the code, and the latest version adds color customization to its existing music-generation features.
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