Am-1 Arpeggio Machine
A Love Letter to Berlin School Music
Details
- External ID
- 49297013
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Am-1 Arpeggio Machine
- Website domain
- crux.garden
- Launched
- Aug. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12634408602150538
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
I have been entranced by Berlin School music for years. I love those evolving and interwoven arpeggios. Latching an arp is often my favorite way to noodle on a synth, and yes it’s because I can’t play to save my life.Last month I got tired of waiting for someone else to build my dream arp machine, so I built my own in the form of a web synth. It is purpose-built for sculpting and performing with melodies. I call it the AM-1 Arpeggio Machine.My next goal is to port the web engine into hardware format (using the Daisy Seed). But in the meantime, since the web app is perfectly usable, I figured why not make it free and open source. It can be used as a fun and interactive patch tool for the eventual hardware version.App: https://crux.garden/zacos/am-1 Source: https://github.com/zacos-techThanks, Will
Enrichment
- Theme
- audio and music production tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- synthesizer for berlin school music
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A web-based MIDI/audio arpeggiator synth built with Web Audio API, React, and local storage/SQLite can easily be generated using AI coding assistants.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Stochas (sequencing/arpeggiator tool), DAW plugin chains, Existing soft synths and sequencers
Concerns raised: Unclear differentiation from mature existing tools, Web version lacks unique workflow compared to alternatives, More flexibility available in DAW plugin combinations
Feature requests: Hardware interface design for live performance, Daisy Seed hardware port (in progress)
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