Acidwerk puts the acid in acid. Yes, this is a generative bassline and drum synth. No, it does not make the vanilla acid you might be imagining. It’s a beautifully bizarre instrument perfect for creating some chaotic noise in a browser tab right after you’ve closed … the news.
This one is a creation of Tristan Whitehill aka Frogmod Audio. I’ve just been playing with his free Frogmod plug-ins, and they’re so good that they deserve their own article, but – let’s get it to this one, because it is so much better than you think. As Tristan tells the frogs, it’s “a generative acid techno machine to help eject you from your day job into a place hopefully more fun.”
Your browser needs this. You need this. Not just some generic acid techno, like – some generated, weird tempo, completely off-its-gourd mayhem. Listen:
Go enjoy:
https://tristanwhitehill.com/acidwerk
And since it’s open source, you can learn from it and fork it into your own creation:
https://github.com/stanybebe/acidwerk
The DSP code, in this case, comes from the awesomeness that is FAUST, speaking of open-source sound. More like this. Happy aciding.