Kilobeat is a collaborative web-based dsp (digital signal processing) live coding instrument, with aleatoric recording (applies when a random function is used) and playback. The user interface is as follows. Each row represents a connected device

There was no one in the main server every time I connected, so I took the entire server for myself during the experimentation. I opened four different tabs on my browser and tested running different functions for each tab. There are default functions available as tabs (Silence, Noise, Sine, Saw, …), and each function can be combined to produce new sounds. Some examples are layering (addition), amplitude modulation (multiplication), function composition (passing in one thing as an argument to another). The players can look at the oscilloscope and the spectrum analyzer to visualize their output.

I found the output created by kilobeat limiting, compared to supercollider. It was also quite difficult to make the piece sound enjoyable to the ear. The strength of the platform, it seems, lies in offering users with an easy collaborative experience on the web, which made me wonder whether there was an option on atom for real-time online collaboration. If so, although I appreciate the conceptual idea behind kilobeat, I personally would not use the platform again.