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JSPatcher, a web-based visual editor to build JavaScript and WebAudio apps

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Re: JSPatcher, a web-based visual editor to build JavaScript and WebAudio apps

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Looks like MaxMSP.

Yes, well "The Patcher" was the original pre-release name of Max (before it was Max/MSP it was Max), and at various points there have been other incarnations of it, including JMax, and (still current), PureData by the original author. This is definitely a hats off to that. There's a great a paper by Miller Puckette, the author, on the history. http://msp.ucsd.edu/Publications/dartmouth-reprint.dir/

Re: JSPatcher, a web-based visual editor to build JavaScript and WebAudio apps

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post #3

very nice, about time we make music on the web! Hope one day we can get a powerful app like Ableton Live but on web and open source.

JSPatcher is similar to Max/MSP. Even the UI design is a blatant ripoff. There are already full blown online DAWs like BandLab, Soundation, Amped Studio etc.

It's not a "rip-off" - it's a derivative. "Patcher" was Miller Puckette's original (internal) name for Max, and there has been an open-source line of the family for 25 years in Pure Data. You can read the history by the man himself here: http://msp.ucsd.edu/Publications/dartmouth-reprint.dir/

Calling it a rip-off is like calling Guille a rip off of Scheme.

Re: JSPatcher, a web-based visual editor to build JavaScript and WebAudio apps

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I'm not well-versed enough into "modern" web stack to troubleshoot, but there is something wrong with the scrolling on their website. Doesn't inspire much confidence into web audio. I'm not entirely sure why browser would be a good fit for an audio synth plateform, to say the least. Faust is nice tho, a combinator language with stream processor semantics. There are lots of things to improve (quality of life things fo…

Some more info on Faust

Main site: https://faust.grame.fr

Faust Web IDE: https://faustide.grame.fr Faust Editor: https://fausteditor.grame.fr Faust Playground: https://faustplayground.grame.fr

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