Granular clouds, frozen spectra, maps of timbre and gardens of melodies that grow on their own. Five synthesizers by Eric Tripper, free to play right here in your browser.
The collection
Every instrument is designed as a real machine with the same controls, so what you learn on one carries over to the others. Each opens as a full playable simulation.
Scans through a sample with two nested windows that move on their own. Stretch time without changing pitch, or let it run like tape, then shape it with filter, delay and reverb.
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Turns any sample into a cloud of tiny grains. Hold a single moment forever, smear a melody into a pad, or scatter it into glittering particles. Play it on its own or from a MIDI keyboard.
Freezes a moment of sound and lets you sculpt its spectrum: shift and stretch the partials, keep only the strongest few, or morph one sample into another, like a voice speaking through a choir.
Cuts your samples into thousands of fragments and lays them out on a map by how they sound. Glide your finger from dark to bright, from noise to pitch, and play a region of timbre instead of a single sample.
A garden where every plant is a melody. Plants sprout, bloom, seed new variations of themselves and fade away as the seasons turn. You don't play it so much as tend it, for hours of music that never repeats.
How they work
A 7-inch screen, four encoders and four buttons: Play, Page, Freeze and Shift. Eight pages of four controls each.
Drag on the screen or on the knobs, use the mouse wheel, or play notes from a MIDI keyboard or your computer keys.
Load your own samples and save complete presets. Everything stays in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Works best in Chrome or Edge on a computer, with headphones or good speakers. MIDI keyboards and MIDI clock need Chrome or Edge; the rest works in any recent browser.
Every instrument here is free. If one of them found its way into your music, a small tip on Ko-fi helps me spend more time building new ones.