Every guide, by topic
Written for producers rather than for search engines, which is why every one of them carries a playable instrument instead of a screenshot. Each topic starts with a hub page and goes deeper from there.
Web DAW
Four pages on the same idea: the whole studio is a URL. Start with the hub, then dig into the comparison, the software angle or the free tier.
Web DAW
What a web DAW is, what it can do today, and the instruments that make one.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →Browser-based DAW
Browser versus installed: latency, CPU, plugins, files - where each one actually wins.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →Production software
The stack a producer needs, and how much of it you can skip when it runs in a tab.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →Free music software
What free really costs in music software, and what a 7-day full-access trial answers.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →Beat making
How a beat is actually built - the grid, the swing, the genre. Play the pattern on the page, then open the full machine.
Make beats online
The anatomy of a beat: kick, snare, hats, swing and arrangement, on a grid you can click.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →Hip-hop beats
Boom bap: 88 BPM, swung hats, a snare that lands late and a bass that breathes.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →Trap beats
140 BPM half-time, 808 glides, rolls at 1/16 and 1/32 - built on the same grid.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →Drill beats
Sliding 808s, triplet hats and a snare that refuses to land where you expect it.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →Lofi beats
Heavy swing, a dusty filter and a kit that sits behind the beat instead of on it.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →Phonk beats
Memphis cowbell, distorted 808s and a mix that is supposed to be too loud.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →House beats
Four to the floor, offbeat hats, and why the clap lands a hair late on purpose.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →Online synth
The category page the catalog never had. What a browser synth is, how wavetables work, how an 808 is built, and what you give up by leaving the plugin folder behind.
Online synthesizer
What a browser synth can do, and the five in the catalog compared side by side.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →Wavetable synthesis
The technique, not the product: what a wavetable is and why sweeping through one moves.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →Design an 808
A sine, a pitch envelope and a glide - the whole 808 recipe, on a grid you can play.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →Instead of a VST
Where a browser synth replaces a plugin, and the three cases where it plainly does not.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →Alternatives
Honest comparisons with the tools people already use. Each page says what the other one does better before it says where GOONS wins - that is the only version worth citing.
Studio alternatives
Six browser studios compared on the things that decide it: price, export, offline, plugins.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →vs BandLab
Free and social versus paid and instrument-led - which one fits which kind of producer.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →vs Soundtrap
The classroom question: seats, logins, Chromebooks and what each one asks of a school.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →GarageBand on Windows
There is no GarageBand for Windows. Here is the honest answer to what people mean by it.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →FL Studio online
FL has no browser version. What a step-sequencer-first workflow looks like in a tab.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →Any machine
For everyone the installed DAW leaves out: locked-down laptops, Chromebooks, school labs and machines that were never going to run a 4 GB installer.
Make music anywhere
Producing with no installer, no admin rights and no licence file - what that actually takes.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →On a Chromebook
ChromeOS runs no DAW installer. It runs a very good browser - which is the whole point.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →For schools
Thirty machines, one URL, no per-seat licence and nothing for IT to deploy.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →On a low-end PC
What actually costs you CPU in a session, and how to spend an old machine wisely.
Read the guide Playable instrument included →Every guide links to the real instrument
The playable bricks on these pages are demonstrations. The 20+ full apps - synths, drum machines, samplers, effects and a shared mixer - come with one subscription.
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