Google I/O 2015 Web Audio Demo

As has become customary, the announcement page for Google’s annual I/O conference is pretty spectacular. This year they have created a theme tune with animations and sound generated using the Web Audio API. You can click on the various ‘instruments’ to create your own variations. It’s very impressive, and works really well in Safari, Firefox and Opera too.

Web Audio API in Node.js

The Web Audio API implementation in Node.js has come on a little way since I last looked at it. It has basic support for AudioContexts and a handful of node types, with a clear, extensible architecture and a good test suite. There’s still a lot of work to be done, but if being able to run Web Audio code on the server would be useful to you, contributions are welcomed.

Videos from Web Audio Conf

The Web Audio Conference organisers have done a fantastic job of turning around the videos of all of the talks so quickly. Take a look at my writeup of the conference in issue 30 if you don’t know where to start.

Benchmarking FFT performance

Chinmay Pendharkar has been looking at various options for calculating Fast Fourier Transforms in JavaScript and has developed a benchmark suite to test them against one another. If you’re looking to do some offline calculations in a Web Worker, or create some custom code in the now-deprecated ScriptProcessor node (keep an eye on the Audio Worker proposals!) this benchmark should be useful.

AudioCrawl

AudioCrawl gathers together a lot of audio demos and projects in one place and makes them easy to find using tags. Although it mentions Web Audio these demos are not exclusively built using the Web Audio API (there’s some flash in there too), but give a great overview of the creative possibilities of audio on the web.

Converse Rubber Tracks Sample Library

Converse have released a massive, royalty free sample library. I have no idea what it has to do with shoes, but it uses the Web Audio API for auditioning the samples in the browser and is a great source of well-recorded sounds if you need some for your next project.