Procedural Music Workstation in the Browser
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As a side project for a hockey manager game, I created a small audio tracker, "HM Tracker," which was used to make the game's music.It is a browser-based tracker-style music workstation. All sound is procedurally generated from oscillators - no samples, no plugins.The UI lets you edit patterns on a step grid, pick instruments and chords, then export as a standalone JS music engine or WAV file. Built with vanilla JS and the Web Audio API (best experienced on a desktop browser).Made in the '90s demoscene spirit (at least the looks, anyway).Would love any feedback!
HN · launched Mar 6, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 46%) · 0 views
Niche: digital audio workstations · 57 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -31% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A tracker UI driving the Web Audio API oscillators and gain nodes without complex sample engines is entirely feasible with standard JavaScript.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #188 of 422 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 128 days after the earliest competitor.
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