Working with the Web Audio API

by Joshua Reiss

Overview

Working with the Web Audio API is the definitive and instructive guide to understanding and using the Web Audio API.

The Web Audio API provides a powerful and versatile system for controlling audio on the Web. It allows developers to generate sounds, select sources, add effects, create visualizations and render audio scenes in an immersive environment.

This book covers all essential features, with easy to implement code examples for every aspect. All the theory behind it is explained, so that one can understand the design choices as well as the core audio processing concepts. Advanced concepts are also covered, so that the reader will gain the skills to build complex audio applications running in the browser.

Aimed at a wide audience of potential students, researchers and coders, this is a comprehensive guide to the functionality of this industry-standard tool for creating audio applications for the web.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032118673
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/26/2022
Series:	Audio Engineering Society Presents
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joshua Reiss is a Professor with the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London. He has published more than 200 scientific papers, and co-authored the book Intelligent Music Production, and textbook Audio Effects: Theory, Implementation and Application. At the time of writing, he is the President of the Audio Engineering Society (AES). He co-founded the highly successful spin-out company, LandR, and recently co-founded the start-ups Tonz and Nemisindo. His primary focus of research is on state-of-the-art signal processing techniques for sound design and audio production. He maintains a popular blog, YouTube channel and twitter feed for scientific education and research dissemination.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Code Examples

Resources

Preface

Aknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introducing the Web Audio API

Interlude - Generating sound with scheduled sources

Chapter 2 Oscillators

Chapter 3 Audio Buffer sources

Chapter 4 The Constant Source Node

Interlude – Audio parameters

Chapter 5 Scheduling and setting parameters

Chapter 6 Connecting Audio Parameters and Modulation

Interlude – Destination and Source nodes

Chapter 7 Analysis and Visualization

Chapter 8 Loading, playing and recording

Chapter 9 OfflineAudioContext

Interlude – Audio effects

Chapter 10 Delay

Chapter 11 Filtering

Chapter 12 Waveshaper

Chapter 13 Dynamic range compression

Chapter 14 Reverberation

Interlude – Multichannel audio

Chapter 15 Mixing audio

Chapter 16 Stereo panning

Chapter 17 Spatialized sound

Interlude – Audio worklets

Chapter 18 Working with AudioWorklets

Chapter 19 The wonders of audio worklets

References

Appendix – The Web Audio API Interfaces

Index