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Single-cycle polysynth

Murmur8

Murmur8 plays a single cycle of a waveform. Reshape it with sliders or draw it by hand, and it drifts on its own if you let it. A flock of starlings follows the wave across the sky.

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Murmur8 on screen: a coloured waveform over a night sky, birds following the line, reeds along the bottom.

What it does

One cycle of a wave, and what you do with it

01

A new wave, and 32 back

Every sound starts as a new single-cycle wave, with the settings kept. The last 32 stay in the history.

Murmur8 with the shape tab open: sliders on the left, a waveform over a dusk sky, birds on the line and reeds along the bottom.
02

Draw the wave

Drag the points of the wave, or scribble a new line across the stage.

Edit mode: drag dots, tap to add, double-tap a dot to remove, scribble to draw a new wave.
03

Four sounds, blended

Superposition stores up to four sounds and blends the wave and the settings between them.

A square pad with a different stored sound in each corner, A to D, each drawn as its own wave. A puck near corner A pulls hardest on A, so the wave you hear on the right is mostly A with a little of the others.ABCDwave and settings,blended by the puckwhat you hearfour stored sounds
04

Drone under a clock sky

Drone holds up to four voices, each with a wave of its own. The sky can follow the clock where you are.

The screen with the controls hidden: only the sky, the reeds and the wave.

Features

More of what it has

Works on

Where it runs

Go deeper

Learn it, then leave it running

Murmur8 runs in your browser

Nothing to install. The sound starts after your first tap.

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