MakeMusic and Steinberg have announced the creation of the W3C Music Notation Community Group, tasked with maintaining MusicXML and SMuFL (Standard Music Font Layout) specifications as Web standards. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the international organization that creates and promotes standards for the World Wide Web.
With the newest version of Google Chrome, which came out a few weeks ago, the browser has added support for hardware MIDI – meaning that you can now use your MIDI controllers to play web-based music software.
The latest version of Google’s Chrome browser, released earlier this week, has added support for hardware MIDI – meaning that you can now use your MIDI controllers to play web-based music software.
Developer Jamie Thomson let us know about the HTML 5 Drum Machine Emulator – a new browser-based drum machine, described as a ‘the most advanced in-browser drum machine available’. “I created this app with the intention that producers could compose and download drum patterns in a highly intuitive and accessible way,” says Thomson.
Reader Luke Teaford let us know about TANGUY – a browser-based synthesizer. You play it with the QWERTY keyboard. – and + shift octaves up and down. OSC 2’s FM comes from the sine wave of OSC 1 (so it has to be up to hear FM on OSC2).
NexusUI is a free JavaScript library of audio interface components lets you turn your Web browser into a music controller. NexusUI is not a ‘canned solution’, but is a set of components that can be used to build custom interfaces. Because they are built with Javascript, interfaces based on NexusUI can run in a Web… Read More Free NexusUI Turns Your Web Browser Into A Music Controller
The HTML 5 Drum Machine is a browser-based virtual instrument, created by Jamie Thomson, that is inspired by old-school hardware.
The BBC has published some online demonstrations that recreate the sounds of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop using the Web Audio API: Explore the BBC sound of the 1960s with our 4 demos of Radiophonic equipment, built with the new Web Audio API standard. Each demo comes with commented code, so you can learn how to build your… Read More BBC Recreates Sounds Of Radiophonic Workshop With HTML Audio
Can your mobile device play this? Alex Gibson’s WAVE-PD1, aka WavePad, is a basic synth toy that sounds a bit like a theremin, built with HTML 5 audio. WavePad has a simple touchpad UI and generates sound based on the waveform and filter settings that you can select. It can also be affected using delay… Read More Can Your Mobile Device Play This? (HTML Audio Test)
Browser-based virtual studio Soundation Studio has added support for external MIDI recording. Now you can connect an external keyboard to one of the virtual instruments in Soundation and record directly to the “cloud”. Soundation Studio comes with 4 different synthesizers, a drum machine and a sample player. You can also use the virtual keyboard in Soundation to record… Read More Soundation Studio Adds External Midi Recording
