I’ve done some more work on the SoundBox tool, and as some of you may have noticed that it’s now live on the dedicated site: sb.bitsnbites.eu. Compared to the Lite version (posted to the Mozilla Dev Derby), a few new additions have been made: You can now import/export binary song files from/to your local computer. …

After releasing the 4k demo SWAY, I’ve received much positive feedback regarding the synth that was used to produce the music. The synth is based on a new work-in-progress project that I have not released yet. However, my colleges convinced me to participate in the Mozilla Dev Derby (April 2012 is all about audio), so …

Music trackers for PCs have been around for decades, and I’ve personally used quite a few of them, starting with SoundTracker on the Amiga, and then various version and ProTracker, OctaMED, MadTracker and ReNoise, to name the ones I’ve used the most. Some time ago, I came across Sonant, which is a very specialized tracker. …

Have been working on a web tool that I think is a bit different from the rest: It’s a music tracker that runs entirely in your browser! It’s currently a beta-release, but with some patience and training you can get it to do wonderful things. So try it out now: http://sonantlive.bitsnbites.eu/ The most annoying limitation …

For those who want to try out the JavaScript sound synth yourselves, I’ve released the source code. It’s available in a GIT repository over at Gitorious: https://gitorious.org/js-sonant/js-sonant. The code has been released under the zlib/libpng license, so use it as you wish. Many thanks to Jake Taylor (Ferris / Youth Uprising) for making the original Sonant …

For some time now I’ve been working on a software sound synthesizer for JavaScript. It all began when I found out about the WebGL 64k competion. Obviously, creating a full featured demo in a 64k JavaScript program poses several problems. The two problems that I found most interesting were: How do we do music in …