JavaScript for Sound Artists

Learn to Code with the Web Audio API

William Turner, Steve Leonard (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

233 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-96153-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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

Autor

William Turner, Steve Leonard

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.04.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 18 Tables, black and white; 70 Illustrations, color
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 394 g
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Film- / Video-Bearbeitung
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Web / Internet ► JavaScript
• ISBN-10: 1-138-96153-1 / 1138961531
• ISBN-13: 978-1-138-96153-1 / 9781138961531
• Zustand: Neuware