JavaScript for Sound Artists
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JavaScript for Sound Artists

Learn to Code with the Web Audio API

  1. 233 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 4 Jun |Learn more

JavaScript for Sound Artists

Learn to Code with the Web Audio API

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. 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.

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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    Information

    Publisher
    Routledge
    Year
    2017
    Print ISBN
    9781138731134
    eBook ISBN
    9781317334941
    Topic
    Computer Science
    Subtopic
    Digital Media
    Index
    Computer Science

    Table of contents

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

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