These sources are instruments, apps and courses for making music. This page lists seven sources, oldest first where dated.
Meta Segment Anything Model Audio
The thread is community reaction to a Meta announcement. Its evidence is a mix of hands-on trials, secondhand reports from GitHub issues and opinion. Results are described as inconsistent, and hardware needs as high.
DIY synths database
The landing page describes a curated collection of 95 DIY-friendly hardware synthesizers, all open source. The project list is not in the page HTML. Only the page text and the RSS feed of ten recent entries were read.
How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect
The poster who wrote the blog post also answers most replies. The thread splits between technical interest and strong dislike of the sound. It also gathers alternative tools, hardware advice and personal audio tastes.
Eigendrum - draw a shape and hear it as a real drum
The page is a working instrument plus a long explanation of the physics behind it. The developer states how the sound is computed and how the solver is checked. The audio itself was not heard for this summary.
Music Finetunes | ElevenLabs Documentation
The page is product documentation, not an evaluation. It covers intended users, upload rules and limits, and tips for datasets and prompts. Its copyright rules are stated in strong terms.
GitHub - leolabs/ableton-js: Control Ableton Live with Node.js
The README covers setup, example code, the message protocol and a few findings about Live. It states that the package is a work in progress. It also carries a sponsored note for the author's own product.
ossia/score: ossia score, an interactive sequencer for the intermedia arts
The README is mostly a feature list, install notes, build badges and contribution advice. Its claims are the project's own. It shows a screenshot, which was not viewed.
Glossary
- AppImage
- A Linux program file that runs without being installed.
- Clone
- A new build that copies the behaviour of an older instrument.
- Copyright screening
- An automatic check that uploaded audio is not someone else's protected music.
- DMX
- A standard signal for controlling stage lights.
- Earwax
- An ffmpeg audio filter that adds a headphone-friendly stereo effect.
- Eigenvalue problem
- A maths problem whose solutions give a drum's pitches and vibration patterns.
- Enterprise plan
- A higher-priced business tier with extra features and contract terms.
- ETag
- A fingerprint of data that lets a client skip downloading unchanged values.
- Faust
- A programming language for writing sound processing.
- Finetune
- A copy of an AI model trained a little further on a user's own examples.
- Finite element method
- A way to solve shape problems by splitting the shape into many small triangles.
- HMAC-SHA256
- A way to prove a password is known without sending the password itself.
- HRTF
- A model of how head and ears change sound arriving from a given direction.
- Impulse response
- A recording of how a room or filter reacts to a brief sound.
- ISF shaders
- Small GPU programs that generate or alter video, in the Interactive Shader Format.
- Kac drums
- Two differently shaped drums that have exactly the same set of frequencies.
- Linear, time-invariant
- Describes a system whose behaviour is predictable and does not change over time.
- MIDI Remote Script
- A Python script that runs inside Ableton Live to connect controllers and other tools.
- Mode
- One standing-wave pattern in which a drumhead can vibrate at a single frequency.
- Nodal line
- A line on the drumhead that stays still while a mode sounds.
- Open source
- Designs or code that anyone may read, use and modify under a public licence.
- OSC
- Open Sound Control, a network message format used by music and show software.
- Rayleigh damping
- A loss model in which higher frequencies fade faster than lower ones.
- Source separation
- Splitting a mixed recording into the sounds that made it up.
- Spatial audio
- Processing that makes sound seem to come from places around the listener.
- Stem
- A separate recorded layer of a song, such as vocals or drums.
- Underconstrained
- Having too little information to give one single correct answer.
- VRAM
- Memory on a graphics card, which large models need in quantity.
- WebSocket
- A web connection that stays open so both sides can send messages at any time.
- Win rate
- The share of comparisons in which one system beat another.