Wild Web Midi

Wild Web Midi is @blurspline attempt to run a "wavetable" (sample based) software synthesizer in the browser in JavaScript.

Try Demo

Currently this is archived by running emscripten on the WildMidi project, which uses Gravis Ultrasound patches. Instrument patches from Freepats project is used for the demo.

Dependencies

• emscripten
• wildmidi
• freepats

git clone git@github.com:Mindwerks/wildmidi.git
wget http://freepats.zenvoid.org/freepats-20060219.zip
node make

Updates

• 22 October 2020 - Fix AudioContext creation for autoplay policy in Chrome >= 71
• 31 July 2015 - Allow seeking in streaming web audio mode, improved player controls, added reverb and resampling
• 21 July 2015 - Implementation of Circular Buffer Queue fixes clicks/pops/static with custom Web Audio Rendering
• 19 July 2015 - switch to 44.1K rendering
• 5 July 2015 - allows wave rendering and realtime web audio playback
• 4 July 2015 - test openal and emterpreter support
• 3 July 2015 - better memory usage (browser doesn't crash after repeated conversions!)
• 2 July 2015 - update index and added sample midi files
• 1 July 2015 - built for the browser. allow wav playback and download after conversion.
• 30 June 2015 - compiled to JS with emscripten to allow running in node.js and browser

TODO

• Current playing time should use more accurate time buffers
• Web Workers support
• pass output through lame or other MP3 encoders for download
• allow custom patches
• selective download of patches (faster downloads)
• integrate a nice player skin like https://jordaneldredge.com/projects/winamp2-js/

DONE

• Slider to fast seek music + stop controls
• stream audio to Web Audio API
• wav playback from browser
• saving of generated wav from browser
• allow opening of midis from browser
• decoding and conversion of midis