Learn how to program JavaScript while creating interactive audio applications! This book teaches JavaScript to people involved in creative audio, electronic music and the audio arts. This book encompasses the entire basic core features of the JavaScript language coupled with aspects of the Web Audio API, allowing readers to build browser based audio applications such as music synthesizers and drum machines. Web Audio API instruction will include oscillators, audio file loading and playback, basic audio manipulation, panning and time. In addition to the focus on JavaScript and the Web Audio API there are accommodating instruction on Document Object Model, HTML and CSS.
Autorentext
William Turner, Steve Leonard
Zusammenfassung
Learn how to program JavaScript while creating interactive audio applications with JavaScript for Sound Artists: Learn to Code With the Web Audio API! William Turner and Steve Leonard showcase the basics of JavaScript language programing so that readers can learn how to build browser based audio applications, such as music synthesizers and drum machines. The companion website offers further opportunity for growth. Web Audio API instruction includes oscillators, audio file loading and playback, basic audio manipulation, panning and time. This book encompasses all of the basic features of JavaScript with aspects of the Web Audio API to heighten the capability of any browser.
Inhalt
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