
beeper: toy subtractive synth
A toy subtractive synth. Only 16 controls, surprisingly capable. Play with the controls to learn a little of sound design by practice. Most beginner synths greet you with 40–50 knobs; beeper has 16, picked to give a wide range of sounds without the clutter. Quick start 1–9, 0, -, = — pick one of 12 sound presets (each comes with its own demo loop) Up/Down — select a control, Left/Right — adjust it Space — toggle checkboxes (Sustain, Solo), s — solo, m — mute allAny preset works with any loop — that's 144 combinations before you've touched a single slider. Tweak Cutoff, Glide, or Drive on a running loop and see what happens. beeper is written in C (~1,800 lines) for an ESP32 embedded project. This web version is the same code compiled to WASM. Two instrument tracks plus a simple drum track. No MIDI, no saving, no chord level polyphony: it is just a music toy with some potential for learning. Clone/fork for your game sound, or your own sequencer/DAW/whatever. MIT license. https://github.com/valdanylchuk/beeper Have fun!
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