OsirisEdit Moves to the Web
OsirisEdit Moves to the Web
When we released Osiris, the idea was never just to make another wavetable oscillator. A big part of what makes Osiris what it is is the ability to build your own wavetables, process them, package them into WavPaks, and make the instrument yours.
OsirisEdit has always been part of that.
The original editor started as an open source Mac application that we adapted specifically for the Osiris workflow. It worked, and it has served us well, but over time the problem became pretty obvious: it was still a desktop application tied to a specific platform and an aging architecture.
Windows users have asked for OsirisEdit for years. Apple Silicon eventually meant running the existing application through Rosetta. Linux was outside the conversation entirely.
We could have kept chasing operating systems.
Instead, we moved the whole thing to the browser.
OsirisEdit Web is live
OsirisEdit Web is now available at:
No download. No installer. No account.
Open the page and start working.
That also means OsirisEdit is no longer a Mac-only tool. It can run from a modern browser on Mac, Windows, Linux, iPad, or whatever machine happens to be in front of you.
More importantly, this wasn't about throwing the old editor away and starting over.
The wavetable engine was ported from the original application so that the behavior Osiris users already know remains intact. The effects, harmonic processing, wavetable structure, and conversion workflow all carry forward.
The goal was pretty simple: keep the instrument useful without tying its editor to the lifespan of any one computer platform.
We added a few things while we were in there
Once OsirisEdit was living in the browser, there were also some things we could finally rethink.
Generate
Generate can create an entire 32-wave wavetable in one shot using Harmonic Morph, Additive Random, Catalog Shapes, Glitch / Chaos, or FM / Phase Distortion generation.
Coherence lets you decide whether those 32 waves behave like one evolving idea or get progressively more independent and unpredictable.
You can generate something, start moving through the table, process it, break it, reshape it, and very quickly end up somewhere you probably wouldn't have drawn by hand.
Which is kind of the point.
Library
The new Library lets you collect wavetables while you're working instead of treating every table like an isolated file.
Build them up, keep the ones worth keeping, and when you're ready, OsirisEdit can package the collection into the A / B / C / D folder structure Osiris expects.
Unzip it to the SD card and you have a WavPak.
A better conversion workflow
Convert to WavPak is still there, including control over sample rate, bit depth, bank length, and wave length.
We also kept a Faithful conversion mode for compatibility with the original application. If you have older material or a workflow that depends on exactly how the original editor handled non-standard settings, that behavior is still available.
There is also a Corrected mode for moving forward without preserving those quirks.
Hardware shouldn't become an island
This part matters to us.
Osiris is hardware. Once an instrument leaves our shop, we don't think the relationship ends because the operating system on somebody's computer changes three years later.
Software moves fast. Hardware doesn't have to.
Moving OsirisEdit to the web gives us a much better foundation for supporting the instrument over time without asking customers to keep an old laptop around just to edit a wavetable.
It also means the editor itself can evolve without another download, another installer, or another platform-specific version.
Fix it once. Everybody gets it.
That's a much better place for OsirisEdit to live.
Go make something
OsirisEdit Web is free and available now.
There isn't a trial, license key, account, or download involved.
Just open it:
Build some wavetables. Make a WavPak. Put it in Osiris.
Then make some music.