JavaScript for Sound Artists: Learn to Code with the Web Audio API

by William Turner, Steve Leonard

Overview

Learn how to program JavaScript while creating interactive audio applications with JavaScript for Sound Artists! This books explores the basics of JavaScript language programing so that readers can learn to build browser based audio applications, such as music synthesizers and drum machines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032062723
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	08/18/2022
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

William Turner is a technical trainer with over 13 years of experience. He currently operates a boutique web development and training company at helpknow.com.

Steve Leonard is a technical writer for Juniper Networks and developed some of the initial documentation for the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series of switches among other products. He now writes the internal programmer guide for developers of Juniper’s next-generation operating system and is responsible for the network management documentation for end users of that new OS.

Table of Contents

Preface. 1. Overview and Setup. 2. Getting Started with JavaScript and the Web Audio API. 3. Operators. 4. Conditional Statements, Loops, and Scope. 5. Functions. 6. Objects. 7. Node Graphs and Oscillators. 8. Using HTML and CSS to Build User Interfaces. 9. DOM Programming with JavaScript. 10. Simplifying DOM Programming with JQuery. 11. Loading and Playing Audio Files. 12. Factories, Constructors, and Classes. 13. Abstracting the File Loader. 14. The Node Graph and Working with Effects. 15. Adding Flexibility to the Audio Loader Abstraction. 16. The Biquad Filter Node. 17. The Convolver Node. 18. Stereo Panning, Channel Splitting, and Merging. 19. The Delay Node. 20. Dynamic Range Compression. 21. Time. 22. Creating Audio Visualizations. 23. Building a Step Sequencer. 24. AJAX and JSON. 25. The Future of JavaScript and the Web Audio API. Index.