Re: AnalyzerNode - magnitude/phase

Yes! The world needs phases, too!
+1
- lonce

On 2013-09-27 11:22 AM, Chris Lowis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently demoed and talked about the Web Audio API at an event for
> audio engineers and academics. A few of them had played with the API.
> One thing that came up a couple of times was that the AnalyzerNode
> only provides an accessor the magnitude of the frequency spectrum. The
> use cases they were suggestion went beyond visualisation of data
> (ambisonics and beat detection were mentioned), and I think this would
> be a really useful change.
>
> It is currently under-specified exactly what getFloatFrequencyData
> should do, but I think the Webkit implementation returns an array of
> floating point values corresponding to the magnitude of the calculated
> spectrum.
>
> There's a few options perhaps:
>
> i) Allow getFloatFrequencyData() to return an array of complex values somehow.
> ii) Add methods for getRealFrequencyData() and getImaginaryFrequencyData()
> iii) Add getFloatPhaseData() which would return the phase of the
> calculated spectrum, and leave getFloatFrequencyData() returning the
> magnitude.
>
> I can create an issue against the spec for this if we agree it's a
> change worth making. I think option iii is pretty good as it won't
> break existing code, but option i is probably neater.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>

Received on Friday, 27 September 2013 14:58:22 UTC