Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15
WaveCraft, the synth your AI can actually play
A free browser synthesizer and drum machine that lets AI control a real instrument through an MCP server, while preserving the editable score, stems, and MIDI.
Why it surfacedWaveCraft replaces the usual prompt-to-audio blob with 67 inspectable parameters, 46 presets, deterministic rendering, and a song represented as an editable JSON document. It is an unusually concrete answer to the question of what AI-assisted music-making might look like when the human is still allowed to be a player.
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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem
August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.