Six small things that make · noise.
Each one is a single self-contained page. No framework, no bundler, nothing to install: open it and it runs. The sound is synthesised in the browser with the Web Audio API, except where a real recorded instrument sounded better, and one of them will program a groove for you if you describe it.
They started life in a private playground and were pulled out to stand on their own. The code is on GitHub.
Nine drum lanes, a melody roll, chord pads and a keyboard, at sixteen steps a bar with swing, accents and Euclidean fills. Type “rainy midnight lo-fi” and Gemini programs the grid, the tune and the changes; or ignore that button and build it by hand. Exports MIDI.
↵open the sequencer
Pitch and volume follow the pointer, the way the instrument does. Snap to a scale or play it straight.
Strum across the strings, fret a note on the neck, pick a chord and noodle. Real steel and nylon samples.
Drag intro, verse, chorus and bridge into a row, pick a progression for each, and hear a rough demo of the arrangement.
Mozart’s dice game, K. 516f. Roll the bones, get a minuet assembled from his 1787 table. Every combination fits.
Layer rain, thunder, waves and fire across the stereo field, or let it drift on its own.