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A List of fun musical toys I've made

A list of fun musical toys I've made

Acid 303

Acid303 is a browser-based TB-303 bassline synth and simple drum machine. It’s built on the Web Audio API — a single self-contained page with inline TypeScript and no audio libraries. A stack of detuned oscillators runs through a resonant lowpass filter with envelope automation and a tanh soft-clip for that squelchy acid warmth, all driven by a look-ahead step sequencer.

Drone

Drone is a generative, ever-evolving ambient sound machine, also pure Web Audio. Seven slightly-detuned oscillators beat against each other under glacially slow LFOs, then run through synthetic reverb and Eno-style tape-loop delays. A Markov chain quietly shifts the root pitch every minute or so while per-voice probability gates fade layers in and out, so it reshapes itself with no input. More on how it works: Ambient Drone Machine.

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