Online Music & Sound Generators
Virtual Drumming
Use your computer keyboard to play a virtual drumset. Choose the set up from your favorite professional drummer, play drumming games and find links to virtual drum lessons.
Virtual Piano
Use your computer keyboard to play a virtual piano.
Incredibox
Incredibox is a musical app in which you can quickly and easily create a mix by running a band of beatboxers. Enjoyed by music teachers Incredibox is used in schools to introduce rhythm and music mechanisms to children.
Groove Pizza
A musedlab creation, Groove Pizza is a fun drum beat generator that pulls in some cross curricular applications with geometry.
Patatap
An interesting sound generator that creates abstract visual images to accompany the sounds.
Skop Bruce Lee
Not all content is SFW or for students! But, this site is so much fun to play with! Stick with the Bruce Lee sounds...
Scratch
Your students can use Scratch to code their own interactive music, art, stories, animations, and games. In the process, they learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for everyone in today’s society. A great companion app for Makey Makey projects.
Every Noise at Once
An algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1538 genres by Spotify. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier. Click anything to hear an example of what it sounds like. Click the » on a genre to see a map of its artists.
Kunst der Fuge
Huge library of midi files of music from the 17th-18th centuries! Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Debussy and many more. Great for downing loading midi scores that can be manipulated in DAW or into notation software for lessons teaching editing techniques, adding dynamics, articulations, etc.