RCWeb DAW
The RCWeb DAW (app/daw) is a browser-based music workstation for sketching short arrangements in an RCWeb room.
Overview
DAW gives you a piano-roll editor, five built-in instruments, a small mixer, and local Web Audio playback. It is useful for quickly building loops, trying song ideas, or sharing a browser-made arrangement with another screen in the same room.
How to use
- Open
/daw/in a browser. - Start from the empty arrangement, or choose Menu > Examples to load a demo song.
- Select a track in the mixer: Piano, Synth Pluck, Strings, Drums, or Bass.
- Drag on the piano-roll grid to draw notes. Drag notes to move them, drag their right edge to resize them, and right-click a note to delete it.
- Use the transport controls to play, pause, stop, loop, change BPM, set swing, choose the grid size, and change the song length.
- Adjust each track with volume, pan, tone, reverb, delay, mute, and solo controls.
- Use Menu > Share to show a QR code for the current room, and Menu > Send to copy your current arrangement to other open DAW tabs in that room.
Features
- Five synthesized instruments with no sample files to load.
- Melodic piano-roll editing for Piano, Synth Pluck, Strings, and Bass.
- Labelled drum lanes for Kick, Snare, Toms, Closed Hat, and Open Hat.
- Mixer controls for balancing, shaping, muting, and soloing tracks.
- Master volume, BPM, swing, loop, quantize, and bar-length controls.
- Playback follow mode that keeps the playhead visible while the song runs.
- Built-in examples: Simple Build, Birthday Layers, Pixel Runner, Grand Anthem, Velocity Loop, Clockwork Counterpoint, Moonlit Waltz, and Stormlight Finale.
Room Sharing
DAW is not a live multi-user editor. Your note, mixer, and transport edits stay local until you choose Menu > Send. Sending pushes the current arrangement, tempo, mixer, and master settings to other daw clients in the same RCWeb room.
Playback is local on each device. Each browser starts, stops, and grants audio permission independently, so press Play on the browser that should make sound.