
eBook - PDF
JavaScript for Sound Artists
Learn to Code with the Web Audio API
- 233 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
About this book
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. T he 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.
Key Features
- Uses the readers existing knowledge of audio technology to facilitate learning how to program using JavaScript. The teaching will be done through a series of annotated examples and explanations.
- Downloadable code examples and links to additional reference material included on the books companion website.
- This book makes learning programming more approachable to nonprofessional programmers
- The context of teaching JavaScript for the creative audio community in this manner does not exist anywhere else in the market and uses example-based teaching
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgment
- 1. Overview and Setup
- 2. Getting Started with JavaScript and the Web Audio API
- 3. Operators
- 4. Conditional Statements and Loops
- 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 and Constructors
- 13. Abstracting the File Loader
- 14. The Node Graph and Working with Effects
- 15. The Biquad Filter Node
- 16. The Convolver Node
- 17. Stereo Panning, Channel Splitting, and Merging
- 18. The Delay Node
- 19. Dynamic Range Compression
- 20. Time
- 21. Creating Audio Visualizations
- 22. Adding Flexibility to the Audio Loader Abstraction
- 23. Building a Step Sequencer
- 24. AJAX and JSON
- 25. The Future of JavaScript and the Web Audio API
- Index