Audio Input

Bring the outside world into your patch. Audio Input captures a live source — a microphone, a guitar or synth through your audio interface, anything your computer hears — and turns it into a signal you can patch anywhere, exactly like an oscillator's output. It's the mirror of the Output module: Output sends the patch to your speakers; Audio Input pulls the world in.

How it works

Pick a device, and its live audio streams straight into the two output jacks. From there it's just another voice in the rack — run it through filters, delays, a reverb, or ring-modulate it against an oscillator. The level meter shows what's coming in so you can set a healthy gain before you patch.

The first time you choose a device your browser asks permission to use it; the choice is saved with your patch. Live input needs a secure (HTTPS) connection and a desktop browser (Chrome, Edge, or Firefox).

Controls

  • Device — choose which input to listen to (microphone, line-in, interface).

Opens a picker of everything the browser can see.

  • Input — Clean (default) captures the raw signal, ideal for instruments and

audio interfaces; Processed turns on the browser's automatic gain / noise reduction, which only helps a weak built-in laptop mic. Leave it on Clean for any real interface — the browser's auto-gain tends to crush an interface's level.

  • Mode — Mono sums both input channels to a centered signal on both output

jacks, so a source on either channel is heard (handy when a mic is wired to only one input of an interface); Stereo passes the device's left and right channels separately (only meaningful on a true stereo input).

  • Gain — makeup gain in dB (default +12). A clean interface signal often

arrives quiet; turn it up to a healthy level, watching the meter — back off if it hits red.

Inputs & outputs

  • L / R (out) — the live captured signal. In Mono both carry the same thing;

in Stereo they carry the left and right channels. Patch them onward like any other source.

Tips

  • Monitor on headphones. Echo cancellation is off (you want the true sound, not

a cleaned-up voice-call version), so a mic near your speakers will feed back.

  • Try Audio Input → a filter or delay → Output for instant live processing, or feed

it into a Ring Mod or Vocoder-style patch against an oscillator for classic talk-box textures.