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Noise Table

Run noisy machines anywhere! Musical ones, too.

Curated ideas from the web, DAWs, embedded DSP, and creative coding together under one tent.

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There's a LOT of features. It's easier to explore them as they apply to a workflow like one of these:

stage opsFor bands that play to stems, a click and triggered sounds, on a grid or off it, with the rig split across machines.spatial audioFor people placing sound in a room, from a 7.1.4 layout to a ring of speakers built by hand. Sending objects to a cinema renderer is not built yet.sound installationsFor installations: several boxes in one room, kept in sync, fed by sensors and by visitors' phones, and watched from one machine.
live codingFor live coders who write patterns as text and change them while they play. A pattern drives notes only so far, not sample names or parameters.DSP and synth designFor people who design their own synths and effects, try them out, and hand the result to a client as a plugin, a link or a box.
beatmakersFor beatmakers who already have a DAW: arpeggiators built from generative parts, and a plugin that runs them inside it. There is no packaged arpeggiator yet.

notebook

A notebook is a patch that reads like an article: prose, figures and controls in one Koda file.

In the browser a notebook opens in the full app, a download of about 47 MB, and its chips do not show controls there yet; it cannot yet be opened from its link inside the plugin.

Featurenotebook

notebook.kodastill
A notebook in the Noise Table app: Koda source on the left, its prose, sliders and patch figure on the right

The patch below is running in this tab, played by plain HTML sliders through the web audio library.

web audio library

Put a Koda patch inside your own web page: the library runs it in the tab, and your page's own controls play it.

Some patches do not compile for the browser yet, and the hosting page needs cross-origin isolation headers to play. The library draws no KodaX, so a notebook's prose and faceplates need the full app.

Featureweb audio library

ocean.kodaready
noise; `white_noise
  seed; 0xCAFE
  amplitude; 0.12

// the sweep IS the cutoff — this chip's output is wired straight to the filter.
// offset: centre, in 1 V/Oct (3.42 = 700 Hz).  amplitude: depth, in octaves.
// frequency: rate, in Hz.
sweep; `cv
  shape; 'sine
  frequency; 0.2
  amplitude; 1.5
  offset; 3.42

filter; `rbj_filter
  mode; 'lowpass
  oct; sweep
  q; 2.5
  in; noise

output @out; `mix
  ; 0.7, filter

patch

A patch is text and a graph at once: drag a wire between two chips and the Koda text changes to match, and the other way round.

Only the desktop build is checked; the browser draws the graph but dragging is untested, and the graph cannot yet be edited on a phone or inside the VST3 plugin.

Featurepatch

Colour is doing work here, not decoration. The wire colours are categorical — audio, control voltage, relay — and never borrow from the ramp, which is reserved for magnitude: fader position, meter fill, the XY field.

audiocvrelay
ocean.kodapatch view
The ocean patch in the patch editor: noise, an LFO and a CV mix wired into a filter and out

Every chip has a page of its own: the pins, the parameters, and what it does.

See the docs
/chips/plaits_voicechip