Ethertone

An experimental modular audio playground built with React and Elementary Audio.

Vision

Ethertone will be the easiest way to make unique music.

It aims to:

• Have a shallow learning curve
• Be optimised for casual users
• Pack the expressive power of a DAW
• Allow anyone with basic coding skills to extend it - no DSP required

The user experience:

• Build your composition by stringing modules together on multiple tracks
• Modules are things like: a synth, an audio effect, a sequencer
• Modules have audio and midi input and output
• Signals implicitly flow left to right

Current state

We have:

• A module system
• A global transport and metronome
• Example modules for:
  • A sequencer (produces midi)
  • A synth (produces audi from midi)
  • An audio effect (processes audio)
  • A visualisation (produces UI from audio)
• Computer keyboard to midi (play the top two rows of letters)
• Auto save to local storage

Development

Requirements

• Node.js

Build and run

yarn
yarn dev