RE: MIDI web synth (was Re: MIDI proposal implemented)

Chris, 
 
FWIW, I tested this on my Thinkpad T420s (and Chrome 19.0.1084.52 m) and
there was obvious latency (compared to using the onscreen keys). 
 
(I didn't want Vilson's note to give you the sense that everything works
perfectly in the world <g>).
 
Tom White
www.midi.org
 
 


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From: Vilson Vieira [mailto:vilson@void.cc] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 9:10 AM
To: Chris Wilson
Cc: Peter Nyboer; public-audio@w3.org
Subject: Re: MIDI web synth (was Re: MIDI proposal implemented)


Chris, awesome, tested with a Novation Launchpad in Mac and it worked
perfectly. I didn't perceived latency.

Cheers.


2012/5/31 Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com>


Yes, that's correct.  It only grabs the first input (could change that to
grab all inputs, I suppose), and it currently only responds to note on/off
messages (the webaudiosynth demo didn't have a modulator controller) - and
in fact, it's a bit wonky in how it does that, since I was taking in to
account that the demo is a monosynth (only one note). 

Related to that, I wanted to have the keys drawn as "down" on the screen,
but unfortunately webaudiosynth uses jQuery pretty heavily, and I need to
separate out the "play" method call and the drawing in a way that wasn't
trivial to do (again, because it's monosynth).


On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Peter Nyboer <pete@lividinstruments.com>
wrote:


Oh, cool! I gave this a quick try.
The popup appeared, but it didn't react to controls or notes from my
controller.
I sent from my Livid CNTRLR:
notes 0-60 on channel 1
ccs 1-32 and 48-59 ch 1

Chrome Version 19.0.1084.52
OSX 10.68

However, I then figured that it was just attaching to the first input that
it found, which in my case is "IAC Driver Bus 1". So I opened up Max/MSP 5
and used a random note generator to play the synth by sending notes to that
port.

Oh.
Yeah.

I then routed midi from my CNTRLR to the IAC bus, which of course worked.
It seems that it only responds to notes and not CCs?

Peter



On May 31, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:

> I found a few spare moments to graft MIDIBridge on to Aike's Web Audio
synth.  Try it out at http://midiwasynth.appspot.com/, check out the code at
https://github.com/cwilso/webaudiosynth.  Note that MIDIBridge can take a
few seconds to grab the MIDI device, so I put a popup dialog in to let you
know it's ready to go.
>
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Peter Nyboer <pete@lividinstruments.com>
wrote:
> I just joined this list. I saw Chris Rogers preset the Web Audio API at
Stanford's CCRMA a couple of weeks ago and was really blown away.
> I'm quite interested in native MIDI support in a browser along with the
Web Audio API. I'm not much of a web developer - I mostly do integration and
programming for our MIDI Controllers (http://www.lividinstruments.com). The
ability to build music apps that work in a browser using our controllers is
extremely appealing to me professionally and personally.
> I've taken a look at some of the simple examples of the MIDI Bridge, and
they are indeed promising. Are there any examples that use the MIDI Bridge
in concert (pun intended) with the Web Audio API?
> Let me know if there are things you'd like tested or commented on, and
I'll try to follow this aspect of the spec. Hopefully I get some time to try
coding some things that are interesting to me!
>
> Peter Nyboer
> Livid Instruments
>
>
>
>







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