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Every music property on the estate: instruments that synthesise their own sound, a turntable, a sheet-music engraver, a tuner that listens through the microphone, a world radio dial, and five era collections holding five thousand tracks between them. All of it runs in the browser, and nothing you drop into any of it is uploaded anywhere.

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Songbuilder Fifteen engines and a roll of the dice Sixty-four patches, nine styles the dice roll inside, twenty keys that remake the roll, and a scratch deck to play the result on. Composer Writes the sheet, engraves it, plays it Five composers written as pastiche with real formal plans, twenty-four bars engraved to a seed you can share, and play-along that silences the staff you take. Drums A sixteen-step machine, synthesised live Eight voices built as they play — a pitch-swept kick, filtered-noise hats, a clap made from a burst train — with swing, tap tempo and a link that carries the pattern. Laband A turntable with a platter you can drag Pitch and speed as genuinely separate controls, a brake that falls at a constant forty-eight semitones a second, and audio that follows your hand both ways. Audio Drop your own files and DJ them 0.1× to 4× tempo, pitch shift, twenty-odd effects, nine reactive visualisers, a queue, scratch and tape stop. Drop any audio file anywhere on the page. Guitars A computed fretboard you can hear The strings are modelled rather than recorded, so every chord and every tuning is calculated on the spot. Tuner It listens, and tells you how far off Autocorrelation gives the note, the octave, the frequency and the deviation in cents — with real string targets for nine tunings and A4 adjustable from 415 to 466 Hz. Audio Bench Drop a file and read what is in it Key, tempo, peak and crest, an eight-band spectral balance, and a plain verdict on why it sounds harsh with the offending partials named to the hertz. Radio A drawn dial over the world’s stations The radio-browser.info community register, shelved by genre and country, played straight from the broadcaster — no key and no account. Concerts Who is actually playing, and where Real upcoming concerts, festivals, theatre and comedy read straight from Ticketmaster, filterable by when, where, what and price. No mock events. Song The archive, decade by decade The door to the five era collections — five thousand tracks across two and a half thousand artists, all of it client-side and none of it tracking you. The Sixties 961 tracks, 489 artists Soul, Motown, garage, psychedelia, folk and surf. The Seventies 1,021 tracks, 420 artists Hard rock, prog, funk, disco, reggae and punk. The Eighties 974 tracks, 526 artists Synth-pop, hip-hop, indie, goth and thrash. The Nineties 1,105 tracks, 525 artists Grunge, britpop, hip-hop, trip-hop and drum & bass. Techno 957 tracks, 673 artists Techno, house, trance, drum & bass, IDM and ambient.

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It all runs in the browser.

The instruments synthesise their own sound rather than playing samples, the analysers read what you drop in without sending it anywhere, and the archives are lists rather than players. If a page needs the microphone or the speakers it asks first, and none of them makes a sound before you have touched something.