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

Chapter 1

Chapter 2 Overview and Setup

Chapter 3 Getting Started with JavaScript and The Web Audio API

Chapter 4 Operators

Chapter 5 Conditional Statements and Loops

Chapter 6 Functions

Chapter 7 Objects

Chapter 8 Node Graphs and Oscillators

Chapter 9 Using HTML and CSS to Build User Interfaces

Chapter 10 DOM Programming with JavaScript

Chapter 11 Simplifying DOM Programming with JQuery

Chapter 12 Loading and Playing Audio Files

Chapter 13 Factories and Constructors

Chapter 14 Abstracting the File Loader

Chapter 15 The Node Graph and Working with Effects

Chapter 16 The Biquad Filter Node

Chapter 17 The Convolver Node

Chapter 18 Stereo Panning, Channel Splitting and Merging

Chapter 19 The Delay Node

Chapter 20 Dynamic Range Compression

Chapter 21 Time

Chapter 22 Creating Audio Visualizations

Chapter 23 Adding Flexibility to the Audio Loader Abstraction

Chapter 24 Building a Step Sequencer

Chapter 25 AJAX and JSON

Chapter 26 AJAX and JSON

The Future of JavaScript and the Web Audio API