README.md

Thoramax

The home of the Studio Zero Thoramax™

I've been playing with the idea of creating a Web VR synthesiser for a while. I made the VeRyMin, which was a first pass, but was frankly pretty awful to use, and even worse to listen to.

Then I read this review of Roli Blocks Lightpad, and one quote struck me in particular :

Jimi Hendrix would use his entire body, and its position on the stage in relation to his amps, speakers, hundreds of other bodies, and the architecture of the space — likely productive zones chalked onto the floor beforehand, as ‘spikes’ — to form and direct the sound of his guitar.

I realised we could extend the concept of VeRyMin to give back a synthersizer performer some of the energy and physicality that an electric guitar player gets.

Some goals

• A skilled performer should be able to play the instrument without wearing a headset (if they want to)
• A novice performer should be able to make a noise with it, and get some sense of control within a few minutes
• Audiences, present or remote, should be able to be part of the experience.
• I will document the process of building this. This is just the start.

Let the aural torment begin! Head over to the site for more info.

Getting started

If you want to run locally, you'll need to install http-server from npm,