This project needs a new name (?)

[jsakas]

A year ago when we started this experiment the idea was to write a port of Reason's Subtractor synth. Mainly this was because we just wanted a base target to hit for functionality, and this synth seemed pretty simple and powerful. (Turns out its not that simple!)

Over the course of developing the project we have moved away from this idea. There are 2 main reasons for this:

• We have a good baseline of functionality already. We should just develop features based upon solely what we think sounds good and we think is useful, and not rely on some other instrument to determine those features. Plus, we've already diverged the implementation by introducing the Super section.

• There are technical limitations. The Web Audio API is still in its infancy, so it is actually very difficult to mimic all of the things that can be done writing programs with lower level code like C.

I think it would be a good idea to name this project something different than what is already out there.

A few starter ideas...

• WS-101 (WebSynth 101)
• Substation
• Subby
• WAS-101 (Web Audio Synth 101)
• WebSynth
• BrowserSynth

🤷🏻‍♂️

[stealthybox]

JSynth would be kind of punny
Substation is a cool name
WAS-101 has a great retro feel if we could skin the UI to feel more 80's

WebSynth/BrowserSynth sounds really lame to me