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Every music property on the estate: instruments that synthesise their own sound, a turntable, a sheet-music engraver, a tuner that listens through the microphone, a world radio dial, and five era collections holding five thousand tracks between them. All of it runs in the browser, and nothing you drop into any of it is uploaded anywhere.

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Songbuilder Fifteen engines and a roll of the dice Sixty-four patches, nine styles the dice roll inside, twenty keys that remake the roll, and a scratch deck to play the result on. Composer Writes the sheet, engraves it, plays it Five composers as pastiche with real formal plans, twenty-four bars engraved to a shareable seed, play-along that silences the staff you take. Drums A sixteen-step machine, synthesised live Eight voices synthesised as they play: a pitch-swept kick, filtered-noise hats, a clap from a burst train, swing, tap tempo, a pattern link. Laband A turntable with a platter you can drag Pitch and speed as separate controls, a brake falling at a constant forty-eight semitones a second, and audio that follows your hand both ways. Audio Drop your own files and DJ them 0.1× to 4× tempo, pitch shift, twenty-odd effects, nine reactive visualisers, a queue, scratch and tape stop. Drop any audio file on the page. Guitars A computed fretboard you can play The great guitar brands and the pioneers who made them sound like that — a reference, not an instrument; the fretboard is in the Sound room. Tuner It listens, and tells you how far off Autocorrelation gives the note, octave, frequency and deviation in cents, with real string targets for nine tunings and A4 from 415 to 466 Hz. Audio Bench Drop a file and read what is in it Key, tempo, peak and crest, an eight-band spectral balance, and a plain verdict on why it sounds harsh with the partials named to the hertz. Radio A drawn dial over the world’s stations The radio-browser.info community register, shelved by genre and country, played straight from the broadcaster — no key and no account. Concerts Who is actually playing, and where Real upcoming concerts, festivals, theatre and comedy read straight from Ticketmaster, filterable by when, where, what and price. No mock events. Song The archive, decade by decade The door to the five era collections: five thousand tracks across two and a half thousand artists, all client-side and none of it tracking you. The Sixties 961 tracks, 489 artists Soul, Motown, garage, psychedelia, folk and surf across 961 tracks and 489 artists — one of the five era collections behind the music hub. The Seventies 1,021 tracks, 420 artists Hard rock, prog, funk, disco, reggae and punk across 1,021 tracks and 420 artists — one of the five era collections behind the music hub. The Eighties 974 tracks, 526 artists Synth-pop, hip-hop, indie, goth and thrash across 974 tracks and 526 artists — one of the five era collections behind the music hub. The Nineties 1,105 tracks, 525 artists Grunge, britpop, hip-hop, trip-hop and drum & bass across 1,105 tracks and 525 artists — one of the five era collections behind the music hub. Techno 957 tracks, 673 artists Techno, house, trance, drum & bass, IDM and ambient across 957 tracks and 673 artists — one of the five era collections behind the music hub. VIZZI See what you hear Point it at the microphone or drop a track and it draws what it hears: a triggered oscilloscope, a vectorscope, twenty-eight modes in all.

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It all runs in the browser.

The instruments synthesise their own sound rather than playing samples, the analysers read what you drop in without sending it anywhere, and the archives are lists rather than players. If a page needs the microphone or the speakers it asks first, and none of them makes a sound before you have touched something.