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This is awesome, just spent 5 minutes making trance
Go Web Audio!!! I'd like to make a DAW, with something like VST Plugins, but one way to mix all these awesome web audio websites together. Like a tab mixer or something...
That'd be cool, I wonder how it'd handle multiple oscillators though. Also given how huge raw audio files are, wouldn't a totally web-based DAW be seriously bottle-necked by connection speed?
WebAudio can handle as many oscillators as the underlying machine will allow (can compute).
Another site added to my "list of websites to show to the kids I teach when they need something bright and shiny to take their attention for a few minutes".

Loads of fun to be had there, and shows the potential of this - as iphoneseventeen says, there future of this kind of thing could be incredible. One day, all DAWs will be in a browser tab.

> One day, all DAWs will be in a browser tab.

https://www.audiotool.com/

Thanks for posting this - quite an interesting utility and glad to get to explore. I'm always game for quick and to-the-point music software, and this has appeal.
How old are your kids? Share the list pretty please!
Yeah! That would be a great Show HN.
That's not specifically a DAW but here is a web based music sheet editor I'm making with some friends. https://flat.io
pls share the list!!!
Nice. The educational value of a site like this is enormous. Are there any more out there?
Suffers from some kind of audio corruption on Firefox for Windows.
Also on Safari for OS X. Lots of crackly noises.
This is pretty neat! Simple and easy to get going. Might be useful for practicing guitar scales, too :-)
Thanks for wasting my afternoon- I mean that as a compliment-- I totally spent over an hour toiling around with it and looking over the source. To much fun- I should be working.

I recently have started buying equipment etc for sequencing- I used to track (fast tracker) when I was younger and havn't played around with in over a decade-- Oh the good old days when mp3s took 40+min to download from IRC and midi's would not cut it...

By the way little tip- Firefox (at least my version) will lock the notes in play if you hit alt or ctl on a hotkey -- risky though- make sure you use use ctrl+shit for w- and don't just do ctrl-w... fyi.

Finally I am not hating that my laptop has a touch screen, I can adjust the bars while holding down notes :) (Generally I dislike the touchscreen (I'm sure it works fun if you're running an OS that is built around it but, people always touch it and clicks on shit).

Thanks buddy! Great little webapp!