webaudioscratchsheet.md

Originally from etherpad

The Web Audio Editor in Firefox Developer Tools is still a work in progress. A lot of love is needed in its current state, and once the basic features are working, here are some dream features, and future planning.

Resources

• Open Web Audio Editor Bugs
• Create new Web Audio Editor bug

Features/Ideas

Views

• Context View (displays meta information about the AudioContext itself) bug 1007321
• Display automation over time (toggle between GRAPH view and AUTOMATION view?) bug 1007876
• Display input/output nodes in a connections panel bug 1007875

Visual Feedback

• Display feedback when an AudioSourceNode is playing.bug 1006626

AudioNode controls

• Start/stop AudioSourceNodes bug 1006624
• "Tap into" nodes, listen along the way bug 1007887
• Play AudioBufferSourceNode's buffers (use a new AudioContext/audio element) bug 1007889
• "Disable/bypass" AudioNodes in a chain bug 1007778

Global Controls

• Hide unconnected nodes from view bug 1007255
• Debugger break on AudioNode connect (or other events) bug 1007901

Misc

• Support multiple AudioContext's on a page (low priority IMO) bug 1006624

Platform work needed

• GC-event when node is GC'd (so we can clear up dead-nodes in the graph view) bug 980506
• Bypass/skip node in an audio chain (possible to implement on actor, but may be better to be native) -- for bug 1007778, may be necessary

Edge Cases to Test

• Buffer with loop

Research

• Who is going to use this tool? Game developers? Audio hackers?