shell
A daily sound-design puzzle. Hear a sound, rebuild it on a synth in your browser, in as few guesses as you can.
play today’s puzzle
opens shell.snails.fm. no account needed to play.
how a day works
three steps
hear it
Play the day’s target sound, as many times as you like.
rebuild it
Every module on the synth is open. Nothing is hidden or locked for the puzzle: any knob might be part of the answer.
submit
Each guess colours the ideas you touched. Green is right, yellow is the right idea at the wrong value, red is wrong. Fewer guesses is better.
the instrument
the synth
+−in the browsertoday
The puzzle runs on the full synth, in the browser. No install, no plugin, no sign-up.
+−in your DAWlater
The same instrument as a plugin, later. Every recipe will paste into it as a code, free.
+−the same sounddeterministic
The engine renders a patch to the same samples on every machine, so the sound you match is the sound the setter made.
setters
Every puzzle carries the name of the person who set it. Sound designers who’d like to set one: charlie [at] snails.fm.