searching for a simple software oscillator - willing to buy

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sinnis
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searching for a simple software oscillator - willing to buy

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I teach music theory in the Dallas Tx area and am putting together a web page to help kids with ear training. Though I have used mp3s of sine waves generated in Audacity, I would really like tiny oscillators in the text: students would have several in view at once and be able to sweep a several octave range with each one in real time (with a pop-up potentiometer). They could turn them on/off, control their individual volume - and tune them - that's about it. Ideally they would be small so I could have text, keyboards, etc. around them.

I would greatly appreciate any advice. If it is beyond novice capability (and doesn't already exist somewhere) I would certainly be willing to pay someone to code if for me.

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Sorry I cannot help with this. This is an interesting idea. I will be following this closely. My children (who are learning piano and guitar right now) could certainly benefit from something like this.
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I've considered how to build something like this before. It would represent a union of two of my interests. However, it is not possible to embed this functionality in a web page using PHP / JavaScript to a usable level. Consider a Java Applet, Flash (pushing it) or (probably the best) a software download.

I used to use the CM 101 which is a nice simple VSTi but you need a VSTi host for that and also it's not strictly freeware. You should be able to do a web search for a simple, standalone, freeware software synth and find something of use.
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