Guitar pedals... in a web browser!

[egasimus]

Check this out guys
http://hackaday.com/2012/10/10/putting-guitar-pedals-in-a-web-page

[CynicalMan]

Neat, once Firefox gets the Web Audio API, I might try making some browser audio stuff. Unfortunately, low-level audio support isn't quite standardized yet in modern browsers.

[~arph]

Yeah it's more like a gimmick. I mean you have to connect your pc to your amp and then it is still an approximation.. Unless you put actual JavaScript inside the fysical pedal.. But then there are better ways 

Browser compatibility is an issue... I did this for pedal I make:  www.friedair.com/arrfx

Only woks in Firefox I believe.. I do have a cross browser Js, dsp library somewhere.. Filters, mixers, delay and everything

[J0K3RX]

Why not just get a laptop and GuitarRig or Overloud TH2 and use it for your rig? They have midi pedal support also... Just run direct to the mixer or turn off the cab simulation and run into power amp and then a cab? But that would be a different forum wouldn't it?   http://www.guitarampmodeling.com  maybe?  I really like some VST's but I gotta have me my hardware yo!

[Tony Forestiere]

Browser compatibility is an issue... I did this for pedal I make:  www.friedair.com/arrfx

You owe me back thirty minutes of my life.  Very fun!

[~arph]

I'll let you play the original with a few beers at hand.

[egasimus]

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"Yo" my ass. Can you say "live in-browser pedal demo"?

[alparent]

So the next big thing will be "Boutique Web Effects" with special secret Germain code and vintage mojo fish caps algorithms. 

[CynicalMan]

I think it'll be more of a 'fun' technology than a useful one. I doubt that browser-based JS is fast enough to do realistic amounts of real-time audio processing. Still, for stuff like arph's synth or Google's Moog emulation, it will be nice.

Can you say "live in-browser pedal demo"?

Very few hardware effects companies have produced software, Line 6 and Wampler are the only ones that I can think of. Given that software effects are usually cheaper, hardware effect companies don't want to give the impression that software effects could be equivalent to their mojotastic concoctions. Technical support would be a nightmare as well. So I doubt we'll see many companies making software demos.

So the next big thing will be "Boutique Web Effects" with special secret Germain code and vintage mojo fish caps algorithms. 

http://www.kvraudio.com/product/mxr-flanger-doubler-by-universal-audio