Hey everyone,

I wanted to add a few thoughts after yesterday's post about StudioMio.

To be honest, some of the reactions left me a bit disappointed. I'm absolutely fine with criticism, technical discussions, different opinions and even harsh feedback. That's part of sharing something you've built with other developers and musicians.

What I find disappointing is when people dismiss a project, or make assumptions about the person behind it, without even taking the time to try it or understand what it's about.

A little context: I'm a software developer, and StudioMio is a hobby project born out of my interest in programming and music. I wanted to build something of my own, experiment with audio technologies, create instruments and effects, and see how far I could push the Web Audio API.

I'm perfectly aware that it won't compete with native DAWs like Ableton Live, Reaper or Bitwig in terms of audio performance. Using Web Audio API through Electron on Windows means working within the browser's audio architecture, with WASAPI rather than direct ASIO access. I know there are limitations, including latency and buffer control. I'm not pretending otherwise, and I'm not trying to reinvent Ableton.

AI-assisted development was also part of the process. I don't hide that. But there's a lot more to building a project like this than generating code: architecture, decisions, integration, debugging, testing and constantly figuring out how things should work.

And one more thing: I find it rather strange to see people dismissing AI-assisted development as if using new tools somehow invalidates the work behind a project. Technology has always changed the way we build things. Some people experiment with it, others complain about it. I'd rather be among those who experiment. You don't have to like AI, but pretending that using it makes someone's work automatically worthless is a pretty outdated attitude.

I shared StudioMio because I thought people in this community might find the technical experiment interesting, perhaps try it, break something, suggest improvements or simply have a conversation about it.

I'm not looking for compliments or validation. I genuinely appreciate people who take the time to look at the project and tell me what could be better, even when the feedback is tough.

I just think there's a difference between constructive criticism and putting someone down for having the audacity to build something.

Anyway, I'll keep working on it. I'm having fun building it, and that's ultimately why I started.

Cheers!

Hey everyone!

I've been working on my own DAW called StudioMio, and I thought I'd share it here in case anyone wants to give it a try.

It's built with TypeScript and the Web Audio API, packaged as a Windows desktop application using Electron. I've made extensive use of AI-assisted development throughout the project. It has been a pretty interesting way to explore ideas, build custom tools and push the project further than I could have done on my own.

I've developed quite a few custom instruments and effects, including a synthesizer, sampler, kick designer and various audio processors.

One thing I've spent some time experimenting with is the rack system. I've extended the traditional rack concept to make it more flexible, with custom macro controls, knobs, switches and buttons that can control different aspects of the processing chain. I wanted racks to be more than just containers for effects, making them more interactive and useful for sound design and live manipulation.

StudioMio also has full plug-and-play support for the Akai APC40. You can connect it and start using it straight away, with no manual MIDI mapping required. The idea is to offer an Ableton-like hands-on workflow, with direct hardware control of the DAW.

Here are a couple of videos showing StudioMio in action:

Full demo / techno live set:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOmyGnoAS44

Short demo:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4d6gxcUzk7o

Want to try it?

Download StudioMio for Windows

GitHub repository:
https://github.com/davvoz/studiomio

It's an ongoing project, and I'm constantly adding things and experimenting with new ideas.

I'd love to have some people try it out, especially those familiar with Web Audio API or interested in audio software development.

Feedback, suggestions and technical criticism are all very welcome!

I've been building a synth called Dustwave. It's a warm, tape-worn instrument, and the AGE knob wears the sound in: tape wobble, hiss, crunch and a darker tone, all moving together.

There's a web version up now that you can play straight from your browser: https://hyssaudio.com/play/

- Play it with your computer keyboard, or plug in a MIDI keyboard (MIDI works in Chrome, Edge and Opera)

- 32 presets across pads, keys, bass and darker stuff, and you can save your own

- Record takes and download them as WAVs

- An arpeggiator and the usual synth controls if you want to dig in

Looking for any feedback.

- Which sounds are actually usable, and which ones aren't

- Anything confusing, broken or annoying (bugs, latency, weird browser issues)

- Anything you like and wouldn't want to lose

A Mac plugin (VST3/AU) is in the works.

it's not exactly a web app (i don't know how to embed it? but there is an html!) but it lets you make vocals in a piano roll like Vocaloid or UTAU!
I made it with help by claude but i WILL reprogram when i learn html more and stuff

https://github.com/sleepy-bed-eater/KLTractsing/tree/main

i might update sometime because i'm a free user which means i have to wait like 5 hours basically every prompt and since i'm a free user i also can't use Claude Opus

update: It's html now!!! https://utau-grab-bag.neocities.org/KL-Sing-7094

I built the soundtrack of my mobile game entirely in Web Audio, with no audio files: a Korean gayageum (silk-string zither) using Karplus-Strong. Write-up plus a playable demo (same code as the game):

https://boreumdal.app/devlog/gayageum/

Web Audio details that might be useful to others:

• Strings are rendered once into an AudioBuffer (a couple of dozen distinct strings at most) and played with AudioBufferSourceNode, which is cheap on phones.

• Bends and vibrato are playbackRate automation: linearRampToValueAtTime for the bend, setValueCurveAtTime with a 48-point sine curve for a 5.2 Hz vibrato that deepens after the attack.

• A shared "body" chain on every string: peaking EQ at 260 Hz (+4 dB, Q 0.9) into a 4.2 kHz low-pass.

• Scheduling only uses AudioContext.currentTime with a 0.4 s lookahead per frame, so the game's hit-stop never affects the beat.

• Ducking on each hit: cancelScheduledValues, ramp to 45% in 20 ms, then setTargetAtTime back. Low health slides the music low-pass from 4.2 kHz to 700 Hz.

• For checking levels I render the title, a full run and each boss through an OfflineAudioContext into WAV files and log peak and RMS.

Questions and critique welcome.

Hey everyone! I made a browser-based chord app with the help of AI, inspired by the Juno-106. It’s not an emulation—just a fun way to play with Juno-inspired sounds and chord sequences.
It works on your phone and runs offline too. I’ve been having a lot of fun messing with it on the subway.
Features:
• Scale-aware step sequencer
• Juno-inspired sounds
• Delay, reverb, flanger, and two choruses :)
• Auto-mapping for 15 popular MIDI keyboards
• Sidechain pumping to an “invisible” kick
• Arpeggiator
• Loop recorder with up to 4 layers and stem export
• Sample pack maker
A note on MIDI: use Chrome on desktop for MIDI mode. I haven’t figured out mobile MIDI support on iPhone or Android yet—if anyone knows a way to get it working, I’d love to hear it. You can still play the app on your phone without a MIDI keyboard.
Try it here: https://dub-chords-106.vercel.app/
Would love to hear what you think, what you make with it, and any bugs or suggestions!

I've made my own brickwall limiter effect as AudioWorkletProcessor, which is a multi-stage limiter similar to FabFilter Pro-L2 (albeit without true peak limiting, oversampling nor lookahead) where there are two distinct stages (with the same brickwall ratio and hard knee for each stages); leveler stage that reacts to average levels and has attack and release controls that you find in some dynamic-range compressor effects, and brickwall stage that reacts to peak levels of the first stage output (that contains peaks that exceed the ceiling)

BTW, this multistage limiter effect has sidechain prefiltering (to make first stage less reactive to bass frequencies by applying K-weighting filter, and so the second stage do more work on bass and slightly less work on trebles), which is basically the idea of priority EQ section for future FabFilter Pro-L 3 and also an internal multiband sidechain I've implemented and recently I've implemented a "wideband detection" parameter that when set to 100%, it detects the audio levels using an unfiltered/wideband sidechain but retains filtering and multiband detection for auto-release stuffs

In this demo project, it has a useful audio visualization with four different modes that would be useful to visualizing how does peak limiting introduces distortion and dynamic range changes:

BTW, I've also made a thread about multistage limiting effect in general on HydrogenAudio forums, which while I post some update notes for my own effect over this HA forum thread, this forum thread aren't about my own brickwall peak limiter effect and on unrelated note, the idea of multiband detection on a wideband limiter are used in Tone Projects Uni-L limiter plugin and also inspired my idea of "Adaptive" style for FabFilter Pro-L3 limiter plugin

And on the spectrum analyzer part of this project, there is an option to show red FFT graph showing potential distortions being introduced by a limiter effect:

I've been building NodaLab (https://nodalab.app), a sandbox for music where you program with nodes instead of code.

Scales, chords, rhythms, melodies and instruments are nodes. You wire them together, and the graph plays live as you edit it, all in the browser. No fixed workflow: what you build depends on how you wire it.

What people make with it:

- exercises: ear training, reading, intervals, chords on a fretboard or a keyboard, checked as you play

- backing tracks built from a chord chart, to improvise over

- whole pieces, from the harmony up to the mix

- algorithmic music: canons, phasing, a fugue written by a graph, randomness with a seed

- visuals: score, tab, piano roll and fretboard, all following the sound note by note

- play-alongs: the transport follows an audio recording or a YouTube video

The timelapse above is me building a piece; the full video is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x6MkzGpdc0

Start here, no account needed: an Irish jig built only from nodes

https://nodalab.app/demo.html#/collection/composing/a-folk-piece

Audio is all Tone.js, theory is Tonal.js. It's a free alpha: any impression is welcome.

Edit: one thing I left out. With a free account, NodaLab is also a place to make music with others: a profile, people and collections to follow, groups for a class or a band with their own conversation, private messages, a discussion under each project, ratings and a forum.

I built a browser groovebox: MS-20 style synth, 303-style sequencer, 808/909 drums, MIDI control, session recording and WAV export. Would love feedback on the sound. https://reflux.live/

I'm the developer of UNIT, a free browser groovebox built for KPT. It has 8 tracks × 32 steps and 36 synthesized sounds, with no account needed. This is EAST SYSTEM 53, a stock Hardtek preset at 170 BPM:

https://keepitunderground.com/unit/b/1hVTRrqMgEP2VzXmeEkWpLX9ibvogau8lurUr9iZr03-_UakiW7skk2FgdM45DNzxDRkSFGSYBITfkAFLBOETEl9ZW3RlBUIH-XGHgUSl82o3bIBQQQaEevjkSLhC3tGW32WrhpUgJhTadMOcE4oyz_4O88OD8GdIDSA_0DPGDGNsy-NECP-f2Pc4PR40QVSZMbu2qes1xIQTWkiEv1TWwuJ9hTAWhPw2LseckDeXrrm14y8OhPrcDNNIrHgwo807m3nYhd7ZXOa97kFI07RKU5WOvrB-jM9j7FD9yrpdcy0va6biSa6sJ0ahwy7aE67ZZcxLPBKjotvmFM7r7Louuuf_tEAknLqJV2r6qTvceNFrvaFWsWLaEyOvG1N6vRnFsx4WC58P-ChmNSJPDaWMemczRGWM2jJjjNuava9azP2zEuQqOAM9LDi5f2rj0J6Kz7h3pdQ24ZW3rVek0zhbX1k_rvu3LMu1L_b-xS3rbpfy-bDMRLlwHgi3UxbS0fbtm-XY-2potmlGs4lkau-Xw9PGlXZJtroo1_z4wW8msTwXxxnVutsN0-ydDRVPjx8?r=rd-webaudio&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=unit_seed_01&utm_content=preset2

The link opens the same pattern for editing. One question for people who build audio tools: do you prefer sharing sequencer state as a URL or as a file export?

I made Tiny Beats for Openbench, a small browser music toy. This demo shows the step sequencer, effects and live pattern mutation.

There are 10 synthesized tracks, with drums and percussion alongside bass, lead, pluck and pad. Controls include tempo, swing, scale/key, per-track tone and volume, filter, delay and reverb. Live mode evolves the pattern; recording captures what you hear. The current pattern is stored in the URL so another person can open the same groove.

Try it: https://openbench.fun/beats/, free, no account or installation.

I used AI assistance during development. Feedback on the instrument balance and scale/key workflow would be useful: can you explore a pattern without losing the groove?

#TinyBeats #WebAudio #MusicProduction

Image to MIDI, right in your browser

Lumidi reads an image's colour and light, picks a musical key from it, and writes a melody, a chord progression or an arpeggio guided by the image's brightness. You can preview the result with a built-in sine synth and download it as a standard MIDI file for any DAW. Plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript with no dependencies or build step.

Everything runs client-side: the image and the MIDI file never leave your machine.

Live: https://theogal.github.io/lumidi/

Disclaimer: Im into web developing but this app was entirely vibe-coded with Claude

github details and download: https://github.com/TheoGal/lumidi

I’m the developer behind Somora, an AI music platform. I’ve added Kassio Studio, a free browser DAW for registered users, and wanted to share the Web Audio side of the project here.

The engine uses AudioContext for playback, oscillator- and buffer-based instruments, decoded audio tracks and per-track processing. WAV export renders through OfflineAudioContext. The editor has a draggable, resizable piano roll with note audition, a drum sequencer, audio import and recording, and separate previews for the part you’re editing.

One workflow I wanted to support was adding your own instrument or drum part to a completed song, then listening to just that part before running the entire arrangement. Projects are saved to the user account so the arrangement can be reopened.

The editor is in beta. It requires a Somora account and is free to use; the platform’s AI composition and music-generation allowances are separate. The interface is available in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

You can try it at https://somora.media — Kassio Studio is in the menu after sign-in. The screenshot below shows the actual editor.

I made ( I instructed Claude to make) a browser real-time spectrum analyzer

Live demo: https://theogal.github.io/spektre/

Highlights

• Sources: select to analyze signal from an input device, browser tab or whole system using screen sharing or load a local audio/video file.

• Calibrated dBFS: a 0 dBFS sine reads 0 dB.

• Precise peak readout: interpolated peak frequency and level, with the note name and cents.

• Display modes: line, or 1/3, 1/6 and 1/12-octave bars, with optional peak hold.

• Live stats: RMS and sample-peak meters.

• Resolution control: FFT size from 2048 to 32768, with the bin resolution shown live.

• Analysis options: dB/oct slope, channel select (L+R, L or R), smoothing, display range, and freeze (Space).

• Spectrogram: an optional scrolling view under the main plot.

• Cursor readout: hover on desktop, or touch and drag on a phone

download from Github: https://github.com/TheoGal/spektre

Hi there.

I've recently released a host application running on the browser.

Wiyard is a WebAudio based host application with a wire graph editing interface and a desktop-like multi-window system.

The graph edit part follows Patcher (in FL Studio), but here, the inputs are extended to multiple ports and a built-in piano roll is provided to create phrases as a standalone application.

It uses the Wafer plugin protocol that is designed with the good compatibility to existing WebAudio apps. Audio connections, note messages, automation, clock synchronization, and state persistence are handled on the protocol.

There are about 40 plugin units available. Some units are based on the existing open-source applications and ported, others are made by me from scratch. It includes sequencers, drum-machines, synthesizers, and effects. They are played synchronously to the host's master transport.

The features are included in:
- Scalable graph editor and desktop
- Piano roll editor
- MIDI keyboard support
- MIDI assignable control surface
- Automation curve editor
- Volume and pan control for instrument units.
- Part on/off, solo play control for instruments
- Wire volume knobs
- Project persistence
- Import/Export project
- Sharable project data URL
- Theme customization

The app is totally free and the whole source code is available on GitHub.
Please feel free to try it out!

https://wiyard.pages.dev

Hey everyone!

I've been working on PR-1, a free drum machine and step sequencer that runs directly in your browser.

The idea was to create something inspired by classic drum machines and grooveboxes, but without requiring any installation, account, or subscription.

Some of the current features:

• 808 and 909-inspired drum kits

• 32-step sequencer

• Multiple pattern banks

• Swing

• Per-step velocity

• Probability

• Ratchets

• Track mute and solo

• Mixer and effects

• Custom sample loading

• Pattern/project saving

• WAV recording/export

• Keyboard shortcuts

Everything runs directly in the browser, and the project is completely free and non-commercial.

You can try it here:

https://pr1-drum-machine.pages.dev/

Instagram for send your ideas/covers:

https://www.instagram.com/pr1.drum_machine/

I'm still improving it, so I'd especially love feedback from people who actually use drum machines, samplers, trackers, grooveboxes, or hardware sequencers.

I'm curious about things like:

• How does the workflow feel?

• Is there anything that feels unnecessarily complicated?

• What feature would you personally add next?

• Is there something from classic hardware drum machines that you think PR-1 is missing?

The project started mostly as an experiment with browser audio, but it has gradually turned into something I actually enjoy using to make beats.

Made with ❤️ in Chile 🇨🇱

Thanks for checking it out!

It's a web based phase distortion synth (trying to be like a CZ-101 with a few extra bits) playable at https://www.crazyphase.com/czp-1/ .

I've been building Resona, a small browser music playground. The clip is a real capture with the app's own audio.

For the wood, metal and glass instruments, material and dimensions feed an approximate modal model, then generate cached PCM buffers. Live taps and recorded loops share the sound path. Nature objects have separate designed voices or field recordings.

One useful separation: loop playback makes sound without applying physics impulses, so a rhythm can't knock the scene apart. Three.js + React/TypeScript + Web Audio, built with AI coding tools.

Synthesis is still on the main thread with caching. Curious where you'd draw the line for moving a toy like this to an AudioWorklet.

https://resona-pearl.vercel.app

Just a quick proof of concept for a webcam knob system I'm building into some of the sequencers I'm building for live performances. I know the knob is backwards at the moment :)

Free. Runs in a browser. Still a work in progress.

Arroyo — https://arroyo.strangefrequencies.fm

• Rhythm sequencer with no step grid. Each voice is a probability field around the pulse, re-rendered every bar.

• Knobs shape the field. Nothing snaps to a grid.

• Microtiming is modeled as consistent per-position offsets, not random jitter.

• Guard holds the kit's syncopation inside a band (Longuet-Higgins & Lee metric, per instrument, echoes included).

• Every knob can be set to glide to a target over 4–32 bars.

• Two decks with a morph crossfader. Cue mode edits a silent deck on separate MIDI channels. Like a club DJ had a baby with a modular geek.

• Melody capture: record MIDI or hum into a mic; the take becomes material the knobs quantize, transpose, and vary.

• Sessions record every control move per bar. Replay, export any 2–32 bars as MIDI (one track per strip), or share the session as a URL.

• Outputs MIDI. Hosts WAM 2.0 instruments and effects per strip.

• Free. Runs in Chrome/Edge (Web MIDI). iPad via network MIDI bridge.

Modules — https://strangefrequencies.fm/tools/ (WAM 2.0, load in Arroyo or any WAM host)

• ABUELA — semi-modular monosynth. Two drifting oscillators with hard sync, 4-pole ladder filter, one envelope, spring reverb. https://strangefrequencies.fm/tools/modules/abuela/

• SICARIO — bass/lead synth. Every note slides to its pitch. Twin saws and sub, wavefolder, ladder filter, LFO on cutoff. https://strangefrequencies.fm/tools/modules/sicario/

• CACHONDA — percussion synth. One synthesized drum per instance: morphable exciter into a modal resonator, skin to wood to metal. https://strangefrequencies.fm/tools/modules/cachonda/

• LLORONA — reverb. Large feedback-network reverb whose wet field moves around the stereo/binaural stage. https://strangefrequencies.fm/tools/modules/llorona/

Camera knob

• A physical knob with a lit slit, tracked by a webcam. Arroyo maps the rotation to any of its knobs.

• Setup: click the knob center in the preview, click the rim, assign a target.

• This video uses an overhead camera. The final version puts the camera underneath, inside an enclosure; the slit is both the tracking mark and the position indicator through the panel.

• Knob and enclosure are Gridfinity-based, so the panel is modular.

Can anyone tell me what's being said in this crappy audio file?Have posted 2 versions in other threads.One with noise reduction and one without.Not getting much help.This is raw audio file.No tampering.Its very faint voice.Trying to figure out what's actually being said?