Today’s Agenda

• Listening Room
• Workshop on Synths and Effects
• Most Important: On your own, and/or with help from your group, Play with either Synths or Samplers and create a signal path with at least two effects.
• First use up to two effects from my examples within this document.
• I would like you to play with at least one effect (or synth) that I am not mentioning below, experiment with the parameters and listen to how the sound changes.
  • To find additional Effects look at the list on the left side of the following page: https://tonejs.github.io/docs/r13/Effect
  • To find additional Synths look at the list on the left side under Instruments of the following page: https://tonejs.github.io/docs/14.7.77/Synth.html
• If you have time move your code into a file as a Class so that you can share it with your group and reuse it.

Tone.JS Source code template

To make your life easier, feel free to copy the following template as it has the tone library already included in the index.html and it also has a power button to turn on Tone (some browsers require Tone.start() to be started with a mouse press, this is a security setting to ensure browsers don’t start playing sound automatically when a page is loaded):

Synths

mySynth.triggerAttack(”C4”); // starts note

mySynth.triggerRelease(); // ends note

mySynth.triggerAttackRelease(”C4”,1); // starts note and releases it 1 second later

mySynth.oscillator.type=”sine”; // changes oscillator to sine, sawtooth, square

mySynth.volume.value= -40 to 10 // volume is exponential starting negative