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Key&Pad

Welcome!

Key&Pad is a Web Audio experiment, combining a keyboard-controlled synthesizer with a mouse-controlled X/Y Pad (eg. Kaoss Pad).

There are a few things you'll need:

Hardware

A physical keyboard, as well as a trackpad or mouse.

Sound

This won't be very interesting without headphones or speakers.

Creativity

Try crazy things, make weird noises. The world is your oyster!

Made with

by Joshua Comeau

The sounds you make are being persisted and published, for others to enjoy. Read more.

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Use your actual keyboard to play!

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key controls

oscillator I

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oscillator II

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octave

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resonance (Q)

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Made with

by Joshua Comeau

The sounds you make are being persisted and published, for others to enjoy. Read more.

Data Collection

While building Key&Pad, I anticipated that people would make really great music with it. I didn't want to miss all the creative things users would do with my web app!

I decided to build an accompanying tool that would capture user sessions, in an anonymized and secure way, so that I could hear what gets made.

No audio is recorded. Instead, I record the sequence of actions. To replay the session, I can just run the sequence of actions through the application, and re-create it on-the-fly.

This data is totally anonymous, and no device/IP info is collected. View the data from a sample session.

Listen to other sessions

Curious what others have created? Follow this link, and use the VCR at the bottom; hopefully it's fairly intuitive!