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MIDI.js

MIDI.js (on github) ties together, and builds upon frameworks that bring MIDI generation to the browser. Combine MIDI.js with jasmid to create a web-radio MIDI stream similar to this demo… or with Three.js, Sparks.js, or GLSL to create Audio/visual experiments. Piano/guitar simulations, Drum machines, MIDI recording, and all kinds of certified funkitude are within your grasps (with a little elbow grease)! Google Chrome is

Color Piano 2.0

Learn how to play piano songs by watching notes fall towards the keyboard as color-blocks; similar to how Guitar Hero works, but with a real instrument. Color piano Theory (CPT) ties together chords, scales, inversions, octaves, key signatures, and play-by-play examples of classical compositions, getting you started with playing piano the easy way =) Color Piano is

HTML5: SoundFonts

Color Piano Theory is now available on the Chrome Webstore. There haven’t been any major UI overhauls since last reported, but there has been a lot of work going on the back-end! Most importantly moving from the Java interface to native HTML5 <audio> tag (as Java isn’t supported in the Chrome Webstore). Although this sounds like a

Batch Thumbnail Generator

Many times, when researching a larger project, I make smaller demos—to break up my workflow, and keep things fresh. The Batch Thumbnail Generator (BTG) is one of these offshoots, a sandbox for creating zip packages with the <a href="http://dev.w3 view website.org/2009/dap/file-system/file-writer.html”>BlobBuilder API, and Flash based download solutions—I also used BTG to create the thumbnails for

ColRD: Image DNA

Exciting news on ColRD.com! Today we’re announcing the public beta of Image DNA, available exclusively on the Chrome Webstore. Image DNA is an application that aides you with intelligent extraction of colors from images. The colors extracted are spread evenly across the humanly visible spectrum; so you’ll notice, for example, although there is not much blue in