Darkroom Labs

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The steady one. Its experimental sibling, DreVelopDrop, is just below.

DevelopDrop

A small browser instrument: a bass synth, three drummers and a kaleidoscope you wipe clear with a squeegee. DreDarkroom, Safelight and SquidgySqueegee are the DJ aliases.

Open DevelopDrop

On the line

Ready to play

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ChungusCello

A physically-modelled cello — every note is a simulated bowed string, not a recording. Bow it, pluck it, tremolo it, or chug it through the Chungus amp. Fretless touch fingerboard with slides and vibrato, a loop station, sing-to-play, a tuner, and a sampler that turns any sound into an instrument (MeowSynth's meow included). MIDI and MPE in and out, WAV/MIDI/stem exports with a Reaper project, and it installs offline.

Works on phones (turn sideways for longer strings) · play it in VR on Meta Quest 2 / 3 from the Quest Browser

Open ChungusCello

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Glass Groove

Wipe the fog off a glowing picture and make music with your thumbs. A bass, three drummers and a picture that reacts to everything you touch, built for one hand on a phone. Two-finger double tap for a Surge: a long rise with a countdown and colours that climb with the sound. Keeps playing when you leave, works offline, and shares a beat as a link.

Mobile first · early and still being tested on real phones · feedback and requests welcome

Open Glass Groove

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DreVelopDrop

The experimental parallel version of DevelopDrop: a wetter squeegee with drips, buttons that squash and feed the picture, an ink scene, a developer mode with live numbers, and a Studio that keeps what you play so you can edit it on a timeline, render it to WAV and stems, and record it as video. New ideas land here first and may change or break.

Experimental · your recordings stay on your device

Open DreVelopDrop

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KlartextKit

A small toolkit for learning the German gamers use in strategy and VR chat. Big colour-coded callout buttons you tap to hear, spaced-repetition flashcards, a quiz, chat practice, timers that count down in German, a VR break guard, and a stress lab that pushes your device until it breaks and writes down where. A nod to C&C: Rivals, Hyper Dash // Hero Drop and heist games like GTA 5. Modular and light (about 21 KB to start; every tool loads only when you open it), works offline, and switches to big buttons by itself in the Quest Browser.

The German is AI-written and not yet checked by native speakers: tell me what is wrong · no account, nothing uploaded · white-label ready

Open KlartextKit

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Word Lab

Plain-English meanings for the words used across Darklabs, with a portmanteau maker, read-aloud buttons, a robot-name generator and easy-reading settings. Made so that people who find tech words hard, or who do not speak English as a first language, can follow along.

short sentences · listen to any word · easy reading, big text, calm mode

Open the Word Lab

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PenrosePulse

An infinite staircase of sound. It starts as one soft felt piano, then you press Climb: a pad breathes in, a marimba circles your phrase, a shuffling shaker and a soft tom arrive, the chord swells and rolls into the drop — then the key lifts a whole step and it climbs again, forever. Endless-zoom light visuals, an endlessly rising staircase tone, touch / keys / pads / MIDI, and it installs offline.

Play over it or steer it with the Ascent slider · glowing keys and pads that only play notes from the chord · works on phones and in the Quest Browser

Open PenrosePulse

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MixingMagic

One desk for drums, bass, cello, meows, monkey beats and a PenrosePulse melody. Draw a groove on a grid, mix it, and export it as a WAV.

Opens inline on the home page too · saved on your device as you go

Open MixingMagic

DarkDeck

Modelled acoustic drum kit with sequencer, a two-deck DJ mixer (load your own tracks), a sampler, a master effects rack and an SFX maker. Bring your own audio or use the built-in demos.

Open DarkDeck

Darklabs FM

A radio with no recordings in it. Drum & bass front and centre, plus breaks, hard dark techno and soft melodic techno. Every sound is synthesised live in your browser, and every track is composed from a seed. Tell me what you think: your feedback goes straight to my phone.

Synth-generated · produced in the Dark Labs · no samples, no recordings

Tune in

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VR Lab

A short, honest course in making VR apps in the browser with three.js and WebXR, with a live example you can step into. Plus where to point your support, and a way to get alerts.

eight small lessons · headset optional · no account needed

Open the VR Lab

MeowSynth

A tiny browser synth made entirely of human "meow" impressions. Play chromatic melodies and trigger mood pads with a single click.

Open MeowSynth

📱 Mobile App Available

Testing APK for Android:

Download the .apk file from the releases
Enable "Install from Unknown Sources" in your Android settings
Tap the downloaded file to install
Open MeowSynth app and enjoy

MonkeyBeat

A browser-based drum machine with customizable pads, samples, and sequencing. Build your rhythm with style.

Open MonkeyBeat

Both Together

Run MeowSynth and MonkeyBeat side by side on one page (stacked on phones). Play the meows over your own beat.

Open Both

In the trays

Work in progress — still developing, rough edges expected

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CircuitStomp

A drum & bass machine built entirely from synthesised robot voices — no samples anywhere. Sequencer with pitch and chance per step, live playing, MIDI in and out, and exports of stems, MIDI and a ready-made Reaper project. Includes 11 lessons and a printable guide.

Open CircuitStomp

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BlueHeronBass

A five-string bass with a blue heron in its voice: finger, pick, slap, pop, tap and harmonics, a fuzz and envelope-filter amp, a loop station and MIDI. No samples, no sign-up.

Open BlueHeronBass

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Crate Capture

Find CC0 and public domain music, check the licence properly, keep the proof, and hand it over cleanly. Guides on searching wide and far, a map of 16 sources (and the things that only look free), and a finds log that fingerprints your files and writes the licence sheet. Everything stays on your device.

six checks · provenance sheet and LICENSES.txt · no uploads, no accounts

Open Crate Capture

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Darklabs Radio

A cleared-for-use radio station with a TTS presenter reading idents between tracks — built to be hosted or broadcast, with room to adapt to other environments later on.

Presenter voice is placeholder browser TTS until real voice pops exist. No shared live stream yet — each listener's browser plays its own loop.

Open Darklabs Radio

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CrateCall

An audition tool for the VR game's music and SFX pool — rate tracks Love/Keep/Maybe/Drop, trim and export a loop, and send picks to the team in one click.

Open CrateCall

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Sonic Smithy

The SFX counterpart to CrateCall: audition and auto-rate CC0 sound packs, layer and slice/loop them, generate new sci-fi SFX from scratch (with a dedicated Pistol Lab and Rail Lab), then export a Godot-ready folder with a manifest and autoload script.

Open Sonic Smithy

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Dark Cinema Lab

A dark reference hub for cinema ideas and looks. Work in progress.

Open Dark Cinema Lab

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Prompt Lab

A browser-based experimental laboratory for comparing and evaluating AI prompts.

Open Prompt Lab

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Resonance Core

A game prototype that runs in the browser. Rough edges expected.

Open Resonance Core

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Resonic CLI Toolkit

A command-line generator for Resonic Player: a fast, visual way to build launch arguments for musicians and sound designers.

Open Resonic Toolkit

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BrokeBots

An experimental browser game for PC (with a mobile version and two-player potential), made by chain-prompting five independent models. Potentially broken robots here.

Open BrokeBots

Darkography

The Dre Darkroom photography portfolio.

Open Darkography

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Pipeline Test

A deployment pipeline test page. Nothing to see here. (Probably.)

Open Pipeline Test

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ThroatTapper

Percussion made from throat flicks and taps. Four tap articulations on keys 1–4, plus a chromatic tonal hum across the QWERTY middle row.

Not a great instrument, so it sits at the bottom now.

Open ThroatTapper

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GlowGrain

A sunlit felt piano that blooms: turn up Bloom and a pad, a warm bass, a marimba figure, light percussion, a voice and a self-playing piano wake in turn. Synthesised in the browser, with tape warmth, a loop station and WAV / MIDI export.

Parked: PenrosePulse took the spotlight.

Open GlowGrain

Roadmap To The Future

What's playable now, and what's waiting its turn

The first few are playable or in preview. The rest are projects on the back burner for now: some half-built, some just ideas in a drawer, all of them waiting while the instruments above get finished. Nothing here is abandoned.

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IDEA: Drunk Bots

Two teams of identical, very drunk bots wander into a huge flat-pack maze, each quite sure they know the way out. Shout directions at your team and be first to get four through the checkout. A quick game with a tabletop VR mode.

A parody. Not affiliated with any real furniture retailer, living or flat-packed · works on desktop, phones and in VR browsers

Let them in

Contact Sheet

A small pipeline that pulls new clips and stills off a VR headset's gallery, renames them cleanly, and gets them ready to publish — unlisted on YouTube until you say otherwise, stills backed up to your own cloud storage.

Open Contact Sheet

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Safelight// Slow Future

A transmission from 2133, played back at 33⅓. A turntable you can play and scratch, synthesised vinyl crackle, and a crate of hand-printed sleeves. Side A is Safelight; flip it and SquidgySqueegee takes over side B.

λ 589 nm · sound on · mixes are placeholders for now

Tune in to Safelight

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Dre Darkroom// Obscura

An experimental preview of the Dre Darkroom homepage. A camera obscura hero, four developer trays, a crimson safelight, two little games and a roll of 24 hidden frames to find.

sound on · the more you look, the more you find

Step into the room

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Mobile first: the workshop

Glass Groove is the first of a line of things designed for a phone before anything else. Next on the bench: a one-tap Loop button, a Journey slider, a replay as a link, two phones paired by QR code, and a proper tour. Real-phone testing comes first.

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Performance panel

A developer mode for the phone-first projects: frame rate, how far ahead of the audio clock the scheduler is, audio dropouts, memory, battery drain and heat where the browser reports them, with a log you can copy. Measured, not guessed.

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Word Lab in more languages

Human-written or human-checked translations of the main explanations, with the same read-aloud buttons. Machine translation is not enough on its own, so each language waits for someone who speaks it.

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Crate Club

A small community around Crate Capture: share finds with their proof, see who has checked a track, flag licence problems, follow curators. It needs accounts and a database, so it waits for the server. The plan is in the Crate Capture folder.

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Ask Dre

A little chat that answers the way I would, with a lot of music knowledge behind it. It needs a small server to do properly, so it waits for the migration.

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The Lobby

A little 3D lobby you can wander round: a skateboard parked by the door, a fogged-up window, and twelve hidden frames to find. Half sketched, waiting its turn.

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PenrosePulse: looping visuals

Mirror-and-feedback pictures that loop forever, for the infinite staircase to climb through. An idea in the drawer.

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Darklabs FM: replies

Saved feedback, replies, and a private inbox, once there's a proper server to keep them on. For now, feedback goes straight to a phone.

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One shared kit

Move every instrument onto the same audio and visual building blocks, so a fix in one place fixes them all.

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DarkLabs, with a capital L

A visual-only respelling of the name. No links change, nothing breaks, it just looks sharper.

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Earshot

A future audition tool for sorting and rating new material. Not live yet.