Introduction

Hi,

I'm a new participant in this group, and I would very much like to  
thank Alistair and all the members for inviting me to join.  I'll be  
on the call at 12, and I very much look forward to getting to know  
everyone.

Here's a little bit about me and about my interest in the W3C Audio  
Incubator:

By way of background, I'm a composer, pianist and software developer.  
The bulk of my professional career has been in software, where I have  
been active for the last 30 years as a developer and architect. My  
most recent undertaking is Noteflight, a music notation software  
company that I founded in 2008.  Noteflight seems quite relevant to  
the concerns of this group in that it is a completely browser-based  
notation editor with its own substantial sequencing and wavetable  
synthesis features.  It has a substantial and rapidly growing user  
base of over 100K users.  Although Noteflight is currently built in  
Flash, our ideal is to offer Noteflight on top of 100% open web  
standards -- which naturally includes the goal of helping those very  
standards reach the level of feature-completeness and adoption that we  
need.  (Noteflight also speaks MusicXML, and so we have an important  
connection with Michael Good who's already in this group.)

The sequencing/synthesis aspects of Noteflight were broken out early  
in 2010 as an open-source project called StandingWave3, written in  
ActionScript3.  (We saw broad value in encouraging others to work with  
programmatic audio generation on the Flash platform, and other  
developers have picked it up for various projects.) Interestingly,  
StandingWave3 is very much like the proposed AudioNode API being  
considered by this group, with many strong similarities and a few  
significant differences. So it seems to me that Noteflight and  
StandingWave together present a very rich real-world use case for the  
Audio APIs being proposed here, as well as offering some ideas for  
possible reuse in this group.

I have just read through the current Audio API proposal, and -- as you  
might guess from my remarks above -- I'm very impressed and like what  
I'm seeing.  I am forming some thoughts and questions which I will  
attempt to write up and circulate in the next few days, driven in some  
cases by the use cases and prior solutions that we've had to work out  
for Noteflight.

Anyway, that's enough for now!  Talk to you soon...

Best,

.... .  .    .       Joe

Joe Berkovitz
President
Noteflight LLC
160 Sidney St
Cambridge, MA 02139
phone: +1 978 314 6271
http://www.noteflight.com
http://joeberkovitz.com