Tarenga

LoFi Engine

An endless lo-fi radio: every note is made as you listen.

Listen in your browser

Nothing to install: press PLAY. The sound is made entirely on your device, inside the browser; nothing is sent anywhere. Share a track’s link and the other person hears the same track. Works on phones too.

Main screen while playing: chords, instruments, groove and level Mixer: layer volumes, ambience such as rain and café, groove and EQ Tools: save to WAV, presets, Auto DJ and Day Mode

It uses no recorded tracks, loops or samples. Pick a mood and the harmony, melody, bass, drums and ambience are generated on the spot, for hours, without repeating themselves:

Every track grows from a seed number, and the same seed always plays the same track. Share the link to one you like, or save it as a preset; preset files move freely between the browser and the desktop apps.

The same idea on a real Commodore 64, on three SID voices: LOFI64.

Download

Windows app 358 KB Linux app 104 KB

Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit. Nothing to install: download, run, press PLAY. The file is not signed, so Windows SmartScreen may show a warning: More info → Run anyway. Linux: desktops with GTK 3 and PulseAudio/PipeWire, such as Ubuntu 20.04 and later; unpack, run ./LoFiEngine, or add it to your app menu with ./install.sh.

Free. Share it as you like; please don’t modify and redistribute it.