Colleges & universities
A real sound lab, without the hardware budget.
Give every student a full modular synthesis system in the browser — for teaching, studio work, and research. Eurorack-faithful depth and faithful classic-hardware ports, deployable on your own servers, with patches that are reproducible because they are just data.
Why higher ed
The capability of a hardware lab, the reach of a browser.
One full system per student
No sign-up sheet for the one good modular rack. Every student has an unlimited system on the machine in front of them, in class and at home.
Run it on your servers
Self-host from a Docker bundle to keep data on premises and satisfy institutional IT, data-residency, and research-ethics requirements.
Reproducible by default
A patch is a file. Share an exact starting rack with a cohort; let students and researchers save, version, and re-open work precisely.
Genuine signal depth
Volt-per-octave tracking, CV ranges, gate and trigger timing, sample-accurate audio — and native ports of legendary hardware to study.
Built-in reference
Every module has a plain-language, diagram-rich explainer. The module library doubles as set reading for a synthesis course.
No vendor lock to a wall of gear
Curriculum and exercises live as shareable patches and lessons, not in a fragile rack that one failed module takes offline.
Where it fits
Across the music-technology and STEM curriculum.
- Sound synthesis and electronic-music modules
- Acoustics and the physics of sound and waves
- Audio programming and DSP concepts, made tangible
- Composition and sound-design studios
- Interaction and creative-coding courses
- Outreach and open-day demonstrations
- Student research into generative and algorithmic patches
- Accessible practice on any device, on or off campus
Teaching
Hand a cohort the same starting patch, walk through a technique live, then set an open brief. Because there is no hardware to share, the whole class works at once.
Research & studio
Save, version, and share exact patches for reproducible experiments and student projects — generative systems, algorithmic composition, sonification.
Study the canon
Faithful ports of the instruments that defined the field.
Alongside modern modules, the library includes careful recreations of classic American modular designs from the late 1960s onward — so students can patch the historical instruments they read about, not just hear them.
Oscillator banks, ladder and filter-coupler designs, sequential controllers, fixed filter banks, and more — documented module by module in the module library, with the hardware lineage noted on each page. A primary-source way to teach the history and the technique together.
Spin up a teaching lab.
Pilot Webrack with a class or a module. We will help with deployment, reproducible exercises, and getting your students patching.
FAQ
Questions from departments & IT.
Can we run this on the department’s own servers?
Yes. Webrack can be self-hosted from a Docker bundle on your own infrastructure, which keeps all data on premises and works behind your institution’s network. Universities with data-residency or research-ethics requirements usually choose this. See the self-hosted hosting page for the technical detail.
Is it capable enough for a degree-level synthesis or audio module?
Yes. The library includes deep modules and faithful ports of classic hardware, with volt-per-octave tracking, control-voltage ranges, and sample-accurate timing. Students can build genuinely complex systems — the same depth you would expect from a hardware modular lab, without the per-seat hardware cost.
How does it help with reproducibility in teaching and research?
A patch is data. A lecturer can share an exact starting rack with a whole cohort, and a student or researcher can save, version, and re-open a patch precisely. That makes lab exercises reproducible in a way a wall of physical modules never can be.
What does each student need?
A web browser. It runs on the lab PCs, student laptops, and Chromebooks you already have — audio is computed on the device. There is no per-seat hardware to buy, store, maintain, or insure.