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Hi all,

Since last year I am working in my free time on a Music Creation Tool in HTML5.

I call it Band In A Browser and right now it has just passed Milestone #1 - realistic MIDI playback.

http://tsvetozar.com/bandinabrowser/

Today I just finalized its integration with FreeSound.org through their API. And heading on to add support for audio tracks. You may query free sound and directly load sounds from there. Note that the sounds are not yet tuned, I'll need to check their frequency analysis statistics and add a fix for that, so all sounds are tuned perfectly. Though I am planning to export hundreds of thousands of tuned sound samples ready to be used, a service like freesound.org and their database is perfect sound source for almost anything - from sound loops, audio tracks and event effects.

I believe one day we all will be able to create music within our browser and use to the maximum the power of Internet and sound services like freesound.org.

Any feedback is welcome.

- supported by Chrome, Firefox 25+, Opera 15+ and Safari 6.0
Sorry, Internet Explorer users cannot use it, as Microsoft are really late with HTML5 support and innovations there.

Tsvetozar

Sounds interesting. And I can't figure out what to do with it. Isn't it supposed to make sounds come out? In Firefox 26, I get nothing.

Your going to have to try it on Chrome or FireFox 25, when I went on it said what it works on and FireFox 26 isn't supported, tuff luck chief.

Wait are we aloud to post stuff we make there on Freesound?

It uses Web Audio API. Which is available on Webkit(Chrome/Safari) since a long time. Firefox have implemented it in 25, but activated it by default on 26. So on Firefox 26 it is working. However, the CPU needs to be good enough, because Firefox is a bit heavy in computations and the sound can be distorted. Hopefully this will be tuned and polished in next versions. However on Chrome and Safari there are not problems for me even on my slow home PC.

It's strange if it is not working on Firefox 26. What OS are you using? I've tried it under Windows and LINUX (Ubuntu). And there it is working on Firefox 26.

Still I am working on the song/track editor. So far made .MID importer and automatic instruments mapping to be able to show some good demos with the MIDI files I found in Internet. Still there are a few things to sort out here.

My next steps are to make the song/track editor where you can arrange your tracks, edit them and record them. One of the things I plan to add very soon is touchscreen support (with multiple touches) which will be perfect for tapping on the screen piano and play this way.

Right now when you're on a channel and you press keys on the keyboard (ZXCVB... QWERT...) you'll hear the instrument on the channel playing.

Sorry for the delay, but the most important part - song/track editor has been left last in development and I am already working on it.

zimbot wrote:
Sounds interesting. And I can't figure out what to do with it. Isn't it supposed to make sounds come out? In Firefox 26, I get nothing.

Works fine on my firefox. You'll need to allow Scripts for the site for it to work.

@tsvetozar:
* An export option would be nice.
* Ability to add/substitute audio files using tracks from our drives.

It's a poor man's ACID music system - but Acid is available for $25 these days anyway.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0051M6JZW?*Version*=1&*entries*=0

That bundle (which is what I have) includes Sound Forge, Acid, Movie Studio (movie edit software) and DVD Architect + a photo browser + lots of royalty free sounds.

Excellent work nonetheless.

Thanks for the link with the bundle of Sony products. Definitely is worth having it.

The keywords for my project are: Music, Social and Collaboration.

The most important feature and goal for my software is actually collaboration, working and sharing online. My idea is that someone can create for example a small theme or just a few chords and share it (in Facebook for example) and all of his friends can just import it and continue working on it on their own. Add some tracks, sounds, chords, themes.

There are a few more projects like that (for example http://dropin.fm and http://hya.io) and I think they'll provide a very interesting web environment and new collaboration techniques between people.

Of coarse, we cannot expect professional grade results, but Web Audio API provides so much, so we can achieve sound synthesis, mixing, use compressors, volume enveloped, low/high-pass filters, etc.

I am currently working to provide my project (which I renamed to Remixer) as a plugin for http://hya.io so you can use it even there accessing all of the feature and sounds I have.

Actually, it's surprising even for me that such things are possible already and that gives me enough passion and motivation to continue working and thinking to where Music and Web can meet one day.

One good thing is that this works on mobile (iPads and lately on some smart phones). Looks very interesting and promising and I believe this is just the beginning. Soon a lot more web apps will appear.

Anyone who's interested in the project may like the page in Facebook which I created and will post and update regularly with the progress:

https://www.facebook.com/remixerapp

I hope you are getting paid for this. This is amazing.