This is a list of curated resources related to the Web audio API. Browser support for the web audio API can be found here.
- MDN Web api documentation - Mozilla documentation for developing with web audio API.
- Web audio API - An e-book by Boris Smud.
- Noisehack - A Blog about audio programming with plenty of articles about web audio api.
- Web audio gotchas - A small list of tricky web audio gotchas that are much needed to keep sanity.
- Building a virtual synth pad - Tutorial to build a virtual synth pad that will play audio samples and provide a reverb feature.
- Web audio playground - A graphic builder of an audio context graph. Helps visualize the way connections are made between web audio nodes.
- Web audio for games Web audio techniques applied to game development.
- Peaks.js explained - Article on the development of Peaks.js, an audio waveform rendering tool for the browser.
- Guitar tuner tutorial - Create a guitar tuner with web audio and Polymer
- Synthesizing tones with Fourier transforms - Sound generation with oscillators and Fourier transforms.
- Web MIDI API and Web Audio tutorial - Basic tutorial to create a simple synthesizer controlled by MIDI hardware.
- The Web Audio API from Node to the browser - Tutorial on serving audio files from Node/Express and consuming them in the browser.
- Beat detection using Javascript - How to detect beats and tempo using the web audio API.
- Javascript Air episode on Web Audio - An overview at audio programming with JavaScript and an introduction to some tools and frameworks.
- Slack's web audio channel - A friendly slack channel of people interested in web audio.
- JavaScript Systems Music - An article by Tero Parviainen on recreating generative music pieces by Steve Reich and Brian Eno.
- Recreating Legendary 8-bit games music - An article on how to use web audio to generate 8-bit music (a.k.a chiptune).
- Howler.js - Web audio library. Falls back to HTML5 Audio.
- Tone.js - Framework for creating interactive music in the browser.
- Wad - Library for manipulating audio with web audio.
- Tuna - Audio effects library.
- Blip - Lightweight web audio wrapper.
- Pizzicato* - A library that aims to simplify the way you create and manipulate sounds with the Web Audio API.
- Soundio - Soundio is a Graph Object Model for Web Audio processing graphs. It also provides a JSONify-able structure for exporting and importing them.
- Theresa's sound world - Library for manipulating audio built on top of the web audio API.
- Musical - A light library with a sequencing synthesizer that supports ABC notation.
- virtual-audio-graph - Library for declaratively manipulating the Web Audio API.
- gibber.lib.js - Library version of Gibber
- XSound - Web Audio API Library for Synths, Visualization, Effects ... etc
- Wavesurfer.js - Waveform audio visualization built on top of Web Audio API and HTML5 Canvas.
- Peaks.js - JavaScript UI component created by the BBC for interacting with waveforms.
- Party mode - An audio visualizer powered by d3.js and the web audio api.
- Audiograph - A visualization of Pilotpriest'S 2016 album and one of the winners of the Dolby Web Challenge.
- Web Audio Inspector - A debugging tool that visualizes the Web Audio API graph of a web page in real time.
- Websynths - Web synthesizer by Mitch Wells.
- JS Dynamic Audio Synth - A musical keyboard by Keith William Horwood.
- 106.js - Emulation of the classic Roland Juno-106 analog synthesizer.
- Midi synth - Analog synthesizer simulation loosely based on the architecture of a Moog Prodigy synthesizer.
- X Sound - Web Synthesizer by XSound.
- Acid Machine 2 - similar to Propellerhead ReBirth RB-338 (although doesn't claim to be a port)
- Chrome music lab - Web Audio experiments aimed at making learning music more accessible to everyone.
- Jam with Chrome - A collaborative live music web application.
- Plink - Multiplayer music experience.
- Modulator - An editable graphical node synth.
- sound.io - A live-performance Web Audio tool which allows on-the-fly modification of audio.
- Drums - A 16-step, 8-track, drum sequencer with per-step sample controls.
- Recreating the ring modulator with web audio - An article on coding the device used to create the voices of the Daleks and the Cybermen in Dr. Who.
- Drum machine - Drum machine with several different drumkits.
- Pedalboard - Guitar pedal effects simulation.
- Wave-PD1 - A themerin-like instrument for the browser.
- Wavepot - A live digital signal processor (DSP) editor built with web audio.
- Tonalhub* - Hear a web audio representation of the last year's commit activity of a given GitHub user and repository.
- Tweet FM - An interesting multimedia experiment combining Tweeter feeds and web audio in real time.
- Mod-synth - A visual synthesizer with several components and presets. It can also be used with a MIDI controller.
- The Rick Astley Remix - Remix Rick Astley's most famous song into different styles.
- Theremin - Another Theremin with delays, feedbacks and scuzz.
- Key-and-pad - A Web Audio synthesizer with a XY Pad to control effects.
- Musical Chord Progression Arpeggiator - An app for creating arpeggios with different progressions and styles.
- D3 synth - A D3 visualization that allows editing a sound loop.
- Gibber - is an audiovisual live coding environment for the browser (github)
- Winamp2-js - A reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 using the Web Audio API. GitHub
- Web audio modem - A project showing how to encode and decode data using the web audio API
- Music mouse - A partial emulation by Tero Parviainen of Laurie Spiegel's "Music Mouse - An Intelligent Instrument".
- AudioNodes - Modular audio production suite with multi-track audio mixing, audio effects, parameter automation, MIDI editing, synthesis, cloud production, and more (download, online version)
- Psyren Audio / Visual Synthesizer - interactively generate psytrance squelches (github)
- Chromium Web Audio API Demos - Web audio app list curated by the Chromium project members.
- Web Audio Weekly by Chris Lowis - A weekly newsletter with hints, tips, links and news related to the Web Audio world.
- Audiocrawl - A showcase of web audio projects with the possibility of signing up for a monthly newsletter.
- Awesome Web Audio - A curated list of Web Audio packages and demos.
- Web Audio/MIDI Demo List - A list kept by the W3C audio working group.
- 10 Virtual Instruments on Browser - 10 Virtual Instruments You Can Play In Your Web Browser.
- Output Channel - A blog featuring Web Audio tutorials and demos/reviews.
- Awesome audio visualization - A list focusing on visualization but also including general web audio libraries, projects, videos and influential people to follow.
- Some of the Best Music Pens on CodePen - A list that includes the best audio-related projects in CodePen.
*: Full disclosure: I am the author of these items.
The images used in the header of this file were created by Dale Humphries and Yorlmar Campos from the Noun Project.