BaseAudioContext

BaseAudioContext.baseLatency Read only

Returns a double epresents the number of seconds of processing latency incurred by the AudioContext passing the audio from the AudioDestinationNode to the audio subsystem.

BaseAudioContext.currentTime (en-US) Read only

Returns a double representing an ever-increasing hardware time in seconds used for scheduling. It starts at 0.

BaseAudioContext.destination (en-US) Read only

Returns an AudioDestinationNode (en-US) representing the final destination of all audio in the context. It can be thought of as the audio-rendering device.

BaseAudioContext.listener (en-US) Read only

Returns the AudioListener (en-US) object, used for 3D spatialization.

BaseAudioContext.sampleRate (en-US) Read only

Returns a float representing the sample rate (in samples per second) used by all nodes in this context. The sample-rate of an AudioContext (en-US) cannot be changed.

BaseAudioContext.state (en-US) Read only

Returns the current state of the AudioContext.

BaseAudioContext.onstatechange (en-US)

An event handler that runs when an event of type statechange (en-US) has fired. This occurs when the AudioContext's state changes, due to the calling of one of the state change methods (AudioContext.suspend (en-US), AudioContext.resume (en-US), or AudioContext.close (en-US)).

Also implements methods from the interface EventTarget.

BaseAudioContext.createBuffer() (en-US)

Creates a new, empty AudioBuffer object, which can then be populated by data and played via an AudioBufferSourceNode (en-US).

BaseAudioContext.createConstantSource() (en-US)

Creates a ConstantSourceNode (en-US) object, which is an audio source that continuously outputs a monaural (one-channel) sound signal whose samples all have the same value.

BaseAudioContext.createBufferSource() (en-US)

Creates an AudioBufferSourceNode (en-US), which can be used to play and manipulate audio data contained within an AudioBuffer object. AudioBuffers are created using AudioContext.createBuffer (en-US) or returned by AudioContext.decodeAudioData (en-US) when it successfully decodes an audio track.

BaseAudioContext.createScriptProcessor() (en-US)

Creates a ScriptProcessorNode (en-US), which can be used for direct audio processing via JavaScript.

BaseAudioContext.createStereoPanner() (en-US)

Creates a StereoPannerNode (en-US), which can be used to apply stereo panning to an audio source.

BaseAudioContext.createAnalyser() (en-US)

Creates an AnalyserNode, which can be used to expose audio time and frequency data and for example to create data visualisations.

BaseAudioContext.createBiquadFilter()

Creates a BiquadFilterNode (en-US), which represents a second order filter configurable as several different common filter types: high-pass, low-pass, band-pass, etc.

BaseAudioContext.createChannelMerger() (en-US)

Creates a ChannelMergerNode (en-US), which is used to combine channels from multiple audio streams into a single audio stream.

BaseAudioContext.createChannelSplitter() (en-US)

Creates a ChannelSplitterNode (en-US), which is used to access the individual channels of an audio stream and process them separately.

BaseAudioContext.createConvolver() (en-US)

Creates a ConvolverNode (en-US), which can be used to apply convolution effects to your audio graph, for example a reverberation effect.

BaseAudioContext.createDelay() (en-US)

Creates a DelayNode (en-US), which is used to delay the incoming audio signal by a certain amount. This node is also useful to create feedback loops in a Web Audio API graph.

BaseAudioContext.createDynamicsCompressor() (en-US)

Creates a DynamicsCompressorNode (en-US), which can be used to apply acoustic compression to an audio signal.

BaseAudioContext.createGain() (en-US)

Creates a GainNode (en-US), which can be used to control the overall volume of the audio graph.

BaseAudioContext.createIIRFilter() (en-US)

Creates an IIRFilterNode (en-US), which represents a second order filter configurable as several different common filter types.

BaseAudioContext.createOscillator() (en-US)

Creates an OscillatorNode (en-US), a source representing a periodic waveform. It basically generates a tone.

BaseAudioContext.createPanner() (en-US)

Creates a PannerNode (en-US), which is used to spatialise an incoming audio stream in 3D space.

BaseAudioContext.createPeriodicWave() (en-US)

Creates a PeriodicWave (en-US), used to define a periodic waveform that can be used to determine the output of an OscillatorNode (en-US).

BaseAudioContext.createWaveShaper() (en-US)

Creates a WaveShaperNode (en-US), which is used to implement non-linear distortion effects.

BaseAudioContext.decodeAudioData() (en-US)

Asynchronously decodes audio file data contained in an ArrayBuffer. In this case, the ArrayBuffer is usually loaded from an XMLHttpRequest's response attribute after setting the responseType to arraybuffer. This method only works on complete files, not fragments of audio files.

BaseAudioContext.resume() (en-US)

Resumes the progression of time in an audio context that has previously been suspended/paused.

Basic audio context declaration:

var audioCtx = new AudioContext();

Cross browser variant:

var AudioContext = window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext;
var audioCtx = new AudioContext();

var oscillatorNode = audioCtx.createOscillator();
var gainNode = audioCtx.createGain();
var finish = audioCtx.destination;
// etc.

• Using the Web Audio API (en-US)
• AudioContext (en-US)
• OfflineAudioContext (en-US)