Molybdenum

Molybdenum is a simple, MIDI-controllable music app.

Screenshot of Molybdenum music app



It runs HTML/JS in its own browser, allowing users to connect a MIDI device and play notes. I began with four simple oscillators and eventually added a few hard-coded refinements: a subtle ADSR envelope and "Biquad filter" LFO. These are ripe for improvements or for breaking out into the UI.

There is plenty of console logging going on, too (CTRL+SHIFT+I). I designed this app as an exercise in learning about Electron. Overall, this is meant for basic sound-making on low-end devices.



Created June 2024.

Source code is available from Google Drive or GitHub.
Executable (AppImage) for Linux available here.

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