Table of Contents

Preface. 1. Overview and Setup. 2. Getting Started with JavaScript and the Web Audio API. 3. Operators. 4. Conditional Statements, Loops, and Scope. 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, Constructors, and Classes. 13. Abstracting the File Loader. 14. The Node Graph and Working with Effects. 15. Adding Flexibility to the Audio Loader Abstraction. 16. The Biquad Filter Node. 17. The Convolver Node. 18. Stereo Panning, Channel Splitting, and Merging. 19. The Delay Node. 20. Dynamic Range Compression. 21. Time. 22. Creating Audio Visualizations. 23. Building a Step Sequencer. 24. AJAX and JSON. 25. The Future of JavaScript and the Web Audio API. Index.

About the Author

William Turner is a technical trainer with over 13 years of experience. He currently operates a boutique web development and training company at helpknow.com.

Steve Leonard is a technical writer for Juniper Networks and developed some of the initial documentation for the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series of switches among other products. He now writes the internal programmer guide for developers of Juniper’s next-generation operating system and is responsible for the network management documentation for end users of that new OS.