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rMIXr: how we learned to stop worrying and love...

rMIXr: how we learned to stop worrying and love the graph

In this talk we present a case study in the use of the web audio APIs. Specifically, our use of them for the creation of a rapidly developed
prototype application. The app, called rMIXr (http://rmixr.com), is a simple digital audio workstation (DAW) for fan remix contests. We created rMIXr in 48 hours at the Midem Hack Day in June 2015. We’ll give a brief demo of the app and show multi-channel sync. We'll also show various effects as well as cutting/time-slicing.
During the talk we will go through our solutions to these issues, showing by example a number of practical ways to get things done with the Web Audio APIs. We will walk through our abstractions and object models for building a fully functional DAW in the browser. These abstractions were necessary because we included a number of effects from third party libraries. Some of these effects libraries do not comply with the “source and sink” model that the web audio API predicates. Our abstractions gave us a more flexible graph structure that was critical to making this application work. While not perfect, it was certainly excellent for the rapid prototype scenario of the hackday. We’ll also talk about some potential improvements to our abstractions. We will then show how to use localstorage to communicate across browser windows and how this approach can be harnessed to quickly create flexible UI elements with multiple windows.
Slides as given at the 2016 Web Audio Conference in Atlanta, GA. Full abstract at https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/54668

Ben Fields

April 05, 2016
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  1. this talk represents our experience using the web audio APIs

    to go from nothing to a reasonably complete prototype in 48 hours about a year ago. actual API usage may vary.
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