I posted before about the HTML5 Theremin built using the Web Audio API. It’s a great implementation of the powerful features of the new Web Audio specs. There are many, many more great examples found in these github pages, including a great collection of synthesizer and visualizers and games (such as Angry Birds) that use
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Karaoke Fun with the Web Audio API Explained
Thursday’s post had a few simple examples of using the Web Audio API and HTML5 features to load sounds and process them. I got started with this following this excellent post ‘Getting Started with Web Audio API‘ along with another post I used to create the file input. Today’s post will explain some of the
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I’ve been learning a lot about the Web Audio API features built into HTML5 enabled browsers and brushing up on my javascript skills at the same time. I’ll be writing a post tomorrow to explain what it is, and how it works, but above is the result of some of my experimentation. This mini web
Continue reading »Music Notation Software
Since my sight reading isn’t exactly up to par these days, I tried to find good, easy-to-use, online music notation software that could play back via midi so I could hear what a snippet of a score sounded like. (Specifically the background to this Hans Zimmer twitter profile). Digging around I did find Noteflight, which
Continue reading »Honestly It’s Not Magic – How Shazam Works
The music identification service Shazam has been with us for a while now. This great service/app let’s you identify a piece of music playing in the background or on the radio just by holding up your phone and letting it ‘listen’ to the music for about 10-15 seconds. The app more often than not successfully
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