Re: Music Synthesis

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Chris Marrin <cmarrin@apple.com> wrote:

> Chris' proposal is node based. As such, it can easily be optimized for a
> given platform. The Mozilla proposal simply provides audio samples which can
> be used by JavaScript and then played (or not in the case of audio
> visualizers). It sounds like you're advocating an API to go with the Mozilla
> proposal. That can be optimized too, but it's not currently being proposed.
> If it were, it would be an SVG (Chris' proposal) vs Canvas (Mozilla's
> proposal with an API) discussion. Either way, I don't believe access to the
> audio samples with pure JavaScript processing is sufficient.
>

So if we had an WebGLArray (or whatever it gets renamed to in ES5)
processing library amenable to parallel/vector/GPU optimization, and a way
of delivering samples to a Worker for processing to avoid main-thread
latency, do you have any fundamental objection to that kind of approach?

Rob
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