Faust Playground

Faust playground is a Web platform designed to enable children to learn basic audio programming in a simple and graphic way. In particular, it allows them to develop musical instruments for Android smartphones.

Useful links

• https://faustplayground.grame.fr: official FaustPlayground website
• https://github.com/grame-cncm/faustplayground: GitHub repository

Development

Notes

This project uses Vite for development mode and builds and FaustWasm for compiling Faust in the browser.

Setup

Clone and enter the repository, then run:

npm install

Run in development mode (automatic reloading)

npm run dev

Then press <kbd>o</kbd> to open in a browser.

Build

npm run build

Generates output in dist/. To view locally, run

cd dist
python -m http.server

To create examples (in public/json/)

• create a patch in the platform
• possibly rename it using the the "Edit" button
• save it (regular or precompiled version) using the "Save" button
• rename it with a .json file extension

To add new Faust modules

In public/faust-modules/, add your .dsp files to effects/ or generators/. Then update index.json to include the paths to your new modules.