An early attempt at a Guitar synth using WebAudioAPI with a Flash fallback.

Cross-browser support:

• Chrome 12+
• Safari 5+
• FF 10+
• IE 9+
• Opera 11+
• iOS 6+
• Android 3+ (haven't tried yet)

TODO:

• make it work okay on iOS, the example works, but when it's used with other UI animations at same time it gets really choppy.
• make it sound better, less 'tinny' sounding
• add attack velocity so some notes can be played harder/decay slower than others
• better performance for Flash synth, it can be slow and laggy on some machines
• support for more expressive playing (hammers, pulls, bends, slides..)
• support for strumming (i.e. a fn call to playNotes() with multiple notes, should result in timeshifting each string a bit to simulate how someone would strum a chord)
• support for different types of guitars/effects
• unit tests

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2012 Brian Stoner

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