Re: Introduction

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:17 AM, John Byrd <jbyrd@giganticsoftware.com>wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I figured it might be neighborly to introduce myself to the list.  I'm
> John Byrd, and I run an audio middleware company out of Irvine, CA, USA.
>  I've worked in the video game industry for almost 20 years now, and most
> of my focus has been on the audio side of video games.
>
> My company makes audio rendering engines for game consoles, tablets and
> other devices.  In particular, our previous rendering engine, GiganticAudio
> 1.0, bears a lot of technical resemblance to WebAudio.  I wrote this engine
> myself in 2006.
>
> I've browsed the source code in Blink and I see a lot of very familiar
> concepts.  The resemblance (which I think is coincidental) is rather
> striking -- our engine also used the concepts of audio contexts, nodes, and
> interconnects between those nodes.
>
> So that brings me to one item of discussion, and I'd appreciate the team's
> input on this.  Although I am new to the sources, I do not personally see
> any reason why the WebAudio architecture must by definition be tied to web
> browsers.  Of course I see that the WebAudio objects are all accessible and
> manipulable via JavaScript DOM, and I also see that the webkit/blink
> implementation depends for some reason on the <wtf> headers, but I do not
> see any technical reason why this implementation might be forked and
> repurposed for native audio rendering applications.  If anyone can think of
> a reason why this can't or shouldn't be done, I would love to hear it.
>

Hi John, good to hear from you.  Indeed, there is no technical reason why
it can't be forked and re-purposed.  In fact, I'm pretty sure that this has
already happened in at least one case.


>
> In any case, I learned a lot from putting a fundamentally similar
> architecture into large-scale production on a number of video games, and I
> hope to be of service to the WebAudio team in the future.
>

Looking forward to it!


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