JSyn Examples now using the Beta Pure Java JSyn
Note: to hear the Pure Java JSyn you may need to uninstall your old native JSyn plugin. If you had installed it then you can uninstall it using the tool on this page.
To check whether you are running the new version, look in the Java Console when you run the Applet. You should see "Pure Java JSyn".
Example JSyn Applets
These Applets do not require the JSyn plugin.
- Wind = filtered noise
- SawFader - modulate a sawtooth wave.
- WaveMaker = build waveforms and play using TableOscillator
- SeeOsc = various oscillators
- FMLab - edit various FM instrument
- PluckedString = plucked string sound using a Karplus-Strong physical model.
- Birds = trigger multiple oscillating "birds"
- ChebyshevSong - play an algorithmically generated song on a Chebyshev WaveShaper instrument.
- FilterFun - hear the effect of various filters on different sounds.
- Delay1 - create an echo effect.
- Env2 - use a multisegmented envelope.
- EnvEdit1 - try JSyn's interactive Envelope Editor.
HyperInstruments
- WebDrum - jam live with other musicians across the web!
- Performance Rack #1 - explore an interactive "music" generator. (1997)
- PinWheel - rotate a melody in a pitch/time space
- Tuna - combine various odd sounds in a song for tuna fish
User Gallery
These Applets may require the JSyn plugin. If so please ask the webmaster to use our new "Pure Java JSyn" JAR file.
- AlgoMusic Gallery - Music created with JMSL and JSyn
- Graphical Instrument using Pythagorean Tuning by Wolfgang Fulda
- Algorithmic Jazz by John Clavin
- bong! smack! An experimental sound installation for City of York bell towers, pyrotechnics and the internet. Anyone with internet access can contribute to this piece by creating their own digital bells to perform alongside five of York's historic bell towers.
- CodeSounding by Roberto Mannai - sonifys execution of Java code. Java library source available. Watch the video. - New!
- Crystal Cavern - ambient sound sculpture by Wesley John-Alder. Just click GO button. Two versions: one for fast computers and one for slow computers.
- Eternal Network Music - networked multi-player jams by Chris Brown & John Bischoff, along with a history of the Hub and Network Music in the Bay Area.
- Music and Computers -online textbookwith JSyn Applets by Larry Polansky, Douglas Repetto, Mary Roberts, Dan Rockmore and Phil Burk.
- Physics of Waves - sound demos for University of North Carolina by Dr. Mike Ruiz and Evan Ruiz. CNN Story.
- Geometry Unheard Of - listen to complex rotatable geometries (German text), by Mona Brand and Thomas Noll
- Phaser - by Jonathan Simon, inspired by Steve Reich's phase pieces
- JLooch and JNissa, algorithmic ambient pieces by Brad Garton at the Columbia University Computer Music Center, dedicated to the pets.
- Punos Interactive - Numerous Compositions and Interactive Software Instruments by Nick Didkovsky
- Rhythmicon - software version of early 20th century instrument, commisioned by Minnesota Public Radio, developed by Nick Didkovsky.
- Tuning and Timbre by James Forrest explores the tuning theories of Bill Sethares. - Why is just intonation sometimes good and sometimes not?
- Various Applets including an ASCII keyboard accompaniment, by John W. Rice.