Re: Detecting time-averaged levels

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Joseph Berkovitz <joe@noteflight.com>wrote:

> A number of scenarios in the Use Case document require a time-averaged
> level for some audio pathway -- maybe something like an RMS using a rolling
> average of squared signal values.
>
> Anyway, I'm wondering if I have missed any simple way of calculating such
> a level, or whether one must fall back to a JavaScriptAudioNode to do this.
>  It kind of seems natural for a RealtimeAnalyzerNode to do this even though
> it's not frequency-domain data.
>

You can do the "rolling average" with a ConvolverNode and do the squaring
with an AudioGainNode (feeding the input signal also to the .gain param).
Another way to do averaging is with one or more BiquadFilterNodes (as
low-pass filters).


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