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  • Making music in the browser: what browser DAWs can and cannot do

    Browser DAWs run on the Web Audio API, which now processes audio on its own thread in small fixed blocks. That is enough for sketching, beat-making and remote collaboration. The hard limits are plug-ins, MIDI support in some browsers, input processing you have to switch off, and storage the browser can wipe. Here is what each limit means and how to work around it.

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