field notes from the edge of web audio
The browser, but as a DAW — Waveform Playlist, Mastering Tone.js, and a growing pile of openDAW experiments.
React + Tone.js components for multi-track audio and MIDI in the browser. Canvas waveforms and spectrograms, cues, fades, effects, recording, annotations, AudioBuffer / WAV export. Also published as Web Components for framework-free embedding.
The math behind tempo maps and warp markers, taught in code. Six chapters working through closed-form tempo regimes, real audio playback, meter, and repairing messy beat-detection data — closed-form where possible, numerical integration where not.
Mastering Tone.js — a guide to interactive audio in the browser
The canonical primer on look-ahead scheduling — why setTimeout alone won't keep a sequencer in time.
A Wait-Free SPSC Ringbuffer for the Web
Moving audio between the AudioWorklet and the main thread without locks or allocations.