The Pentaphone

<i>Most online synth examples are too complicated: they try to give you everything</i><p>Totally.<p><i>but you can make a bunch of music using only a subset of</i><p>Waveforms? Filters? Oscillators? Envelopes? Yeah... synths are totally complicated. I&#x27;m excited to see how you&#x27;re going to make it simpler.<p><i>the 12 available notes. The Pentaphone limits itself to just those heavy-hitters.</i><p>NOOOOOOO!!!!! Talk to every guitar player; this is the path to purgatory.<p>Edit: I&#x27;ve warmed; it&#x27;s pretty fun and I could see this turning people on to improvising. The &quot;8&quot; (next tonic) would be sweet. Maybe shift to raise the whole thing an octave? Proper face melting requires access to two tonics...

I recently used the web audio API and HTML5 to make a touchscreen-enabled synth app for iPad.<p>Its very basic, but keeping in mind its around 150 lines and written from scratch Im sure I can improve it from here :)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codepen.io&#x2F;tomhodgins&#x2F;post&#x2F;building-an-html5-app-for-ipad" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codepen.io&#x2F;tomhodgins&#x2F;post&#x2F;building-an-html5-app-for-...</a>

Interesting - played around with it but the sound is choppy and crackles between key preses on my computer. I&#x27;m thinking it&#x27;s my audio setup (AMD Radeon 6770 graphics card feeding an Onkyo 5.1 receiver both graphics and audio over HDMI with the default AMD audio drivers), will try later elsewhere.

I love it. Some people with a musical background might find it to limited. But I think it&#x27;s good to explore and play.<p>I think I should get a Push, Monome, or Launchpad some time. Today I had a demonstration of the Push, and it&#x27;s so simple to play around with samples and sounds.