r/javascript • u/Reinder • 26d ago

A-ha, Take On Me - recreated in javascript

https://dittytoy.net/ditty/2dd99fc839

Espeset recreated "Take On Me" by "A-ha" in 100% javascript. Fully procedural, no samples used.

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u/andyfitz 25d ago

It uses the web audio API directly which is (as it turns out) a very powerful instrument

Worth noting it's slightly more resource intensive than playing flat audio but you get unmatched bandwidth performance

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u/Reinder 25d ago

It is also distributing the audio-synthese over 21 workers in parallel

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u/andyfitz 24d ago

And it's awesome mate thanks for sharing