JSPatcher, a web-based visual editor to build JavaScript and WebAudio apps (opens in new tab)

(webaudioconf2021.com)

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suyash4y ago· 3 in thread

very nice, about time we make music on the web! Hope one day we can get a powerful app like Ableton Live but on web and open source.

dimmuborgir4y ago

JSPatcher is similar to Max/MSP. Even the UI design is a blatant ripoff.

There are already full blown online DAWs like BandLab, Soundation, Amped Studio etc.

luluganeta4y ago

> the UI design is a blatant ripoff

It follows the design patterns of many node-based programming environments, so to call it a ripoff of Max/MSP is unfairly harsh. The theme in the second half of the video looks a lot closer to VVVV than Max.

iainctduncan4y ago

It's not a "rip-off" - it's a derivative. "Patcher" was Miller Puckette's original (internal) name for Max, and there has been an open-source line of the family for 25 years in Pure Data. You can read the history by the man himself here: http://msp.ucsd.edu/Publications/dartmouth-reprint.dir/

Calling it a rip-off is like calling Guille a rip off of Scheme.

stoicjumbotron4y ago· 1 in thread

I'm unable to scroll the page.

I'm on Windows 10, Firefox Developer Edition 90.0b12. Is anyone facing the same issue?

jgrpf4y ago

Some JS seems to hijack the native scroll behaviour. The same on Manjaro Linux Firefox 89.0.1.

ogn3rd4y ago· 1 in thread

Looks like MaxMSP.

iainctduncan4y ago

Yes, well "The Patcher" was the original pre-release name of Max (before it was Max/MSP it was Max), and at various points there have been other incarnations of it, including JMax, and (still current), PureData by the original author. This is definitely a hats off to that. There's a great a paper by Miller Puckette, the author, on the history. http://msp.ucsd.edu/Publications/dartmouth-reprint.dir/

spankalee4y ago

If anyone wants to play with it there's a live demo here: https://fr0stbyter.github.io/jspatcher/dist/?projectZip=../e...

Most of the files seem to be presentation slides, only a few play any audio.

lapinot4y ago

I'm not well-versed enough into "modern" web stack to troubleshoot, but there is something wrong with the scrolling on their website. Doesn't inspire much confidence into web audio. I'm not entirely sure why browser would be a good fit for an audio synth plateform, to say the least.

Faust is nice tho, a combinator language with stream processor semantics. There are lots of things to improve (quality of life things for organizing code, more typing, better semantics for the surface language which currently is ugly macro expansion where it could've been a simple lisp or even better a mini-ML), but it's also currently one of the best thing in town for functional synthesis.

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diimdeep4y ago

There is more cool projects from Web Audio Conf

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMaHc1Rq2viM88OsluS2WWw/vid...

https://webaudioconf2021.com

lioeters4y ago

All other papers can be found from the link below:

https://webaudioconf2021.com/program/

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