All your browsers are belong to me

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A browser-based polyphonic synth is built end-to-end in JavaScript: Web Audio-style sample generation in Firefox, event-based recording (store key events not audio), Node + Express backend, Faye pubsub and Redis for state; clock sync uses an NTP-like timestamp exchange and a server-central clock which yields hundreds of clients synced to ~1 ms in tests but still produces audible jitter and noise in large Wi‑Fi demos; the live demo mostly fails but isolated pockets succeed.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:29Audience Participation
3. 1:08The Flaming Lips
4. 1:26Flaming Lips
5. 7:18How Do You Generate Sound in a Browser
6. 8:17Amplitude Modulation
7. 8:34Adsr Envelope
8. 16:40Ntp the Network Time Protocol
9. 25:01Questions

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