Virtual Megus: a generative music experiment

Listen to Virtual Megus

Generative music is one of my long-time interests. Virtual Megus is an attempt to create a system
that plays neverending electronic music. I’m not into abstract noises, so my goal is to
achieve pleasant-sounding results. As a musician, I obviously have some biases, and my system
probably has them too, hence the name — Virtual Megus.

Virtual Megus works in Chrome and Firefox browsers.

I’m going to document my progress in my blog and Twitter.

Current features

• Audio engine (synths and effects):
  • Drum machine
  • Monophonic subtractive synth
  • Polyphonic subtractive synth
• Music generation:
  • Simple, but pretty powerful drum pattern generator
  • Primitive random bass line generator
  • Primitive random arpeggio generator
  • Simple melody generator
  • Chord progressions generator
  • Simple song structure generator
• UI:
  • Simple visualizer