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🎼 Spectral Music: 2D Additive Synthesis

2D additive-synthesis lab: edit 12 partial amplitudes by dragging, add string inharmonicity, hear the sound with Web Audio and watch the waveform, spectrum and spectrogram.

Sound & Music2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
2d-spectral-music ↗ Open standalone
⚙ Under the hood

Additive synthesis with draggable partials, inharmonicity, waveform, spectrum and spectrogram.

additive synthesisspectrumharmonics

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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