timbre.js

JavaScript library for objective sound programming

Timbre.js provides a functional processing and synthesizing audio in your web apps with modern JavaScript's way like jQuery or node.js. It has many T-Object (Timbre-Object) that connected together to define the graph-based routing for overall audio rendering. It is a goal of this project to approach the next generation audio processing for web.

Project Page

English | 日本語

Examples

BeatBox | Chords Work | Gymnopedie | Khoomii | Reich

Supports

Timbre.js runs on modern browsers for Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android or node.js.

Installation

browser

Include the timbre.js file. It will install itself as timbre, T under the global namespace.

<script src="timbre.js"></script>
<script>
  T("sin", {freq:880, mul:0.5}).play();
</script>

Flash fallback (for Opera and IE10)

Download an additional file (Right-click and use "Save As")

• timbre.swf

timbre.swf must be set in the same folder as timbre.js.

node.js

Install via npm: npm install timbre, you can require it as a standard node module.

var T = require("timbre");

T("sin", {freq:880, mul:0.5}).play();

License

MIT

ChangeLog

14.11.25 (356.27KB)

• Merge: #33 update of the note duration formula to handle more 3 dots
• Merge: #36 use latest Web Audio API interfaces

14.10.12 (356.28KB)

• Fixed: Decoding wav file
• Fixed: Envelope release

14.08.07 (356.19KB)

• Fixed: Export for CommonJS env #19

14.06.23 (356.14KB)

• Fixed: #23 fix to work on an iOS device
• Fixed: fix to work on node.js

14.05.28 (355.91KB)

• Fixed: #19

14.05.15 (355.95KB)

• Fixed: #15
• Excluded support of Audio Data API. use Web Audio API instead.

13.08.03 (361.93KB)

• Adding Extra: mp3_decode. See mp3_decode
• Adding Extra: soundfont. See soundfont

13.05.03 (361.93KB)

• Bugfix: wav decoder. See #3

13.05.01 (361.75KB)

• Added: T("task")
• Added: TimbreObject.to()
• Added: TimbreObject.splice()
• Added: TimbreObject.postMessage()
• Updated: T("mml") support multi tracks, command token
• Updated: TimbreObject support buddies interface
• Bugfix: T("mouse.x"), T("mouse.y")

13.04.19 (346.63KB)

• Bugfix: end process of T("params")

13.04.17 (344.94KB)

• Updated: readable stream api (node.js)

13.04.06 (344.94KB)

• Fixed: T("pluck) buffer size

13.04.01 (344.95KB)

• Bugfix: T("buffer").slice()
• Bugfix: fn.pointer() for Opera
• Fixed: Flash fallback

13.03.10 (345.41KB)

• Fixed: Checking Float64Array support. See #2
• Changed: lame support (default -> optional)
• updated dependencies in package.json

13.03.01 (355.72KB)

• Added: T("script")
• Added: T("waveshaper")
• Added: T("lag")
• Added: T("mono")
• Added: T("delay").cross
• Added: T("audio.jsonp") to extras
• Moved: T("keyboard") to extras
• Moved: T("mouse") to extras
• Moved: T("cosc) to extras
• Renamed: T("mml"): mml event listener -> data event listener
• Fixed: Flash fallback support for Opera, IE9 (changing the installation)
• make it easier to make a stereo object

13.02.07 (334.61KB)

• Added T.setup({f64:true}) to use Float64Array instead of Float32Array
• Added Android/Firefox support
• Added Flash fallback support for Opera, IE9
• performance improvements

13.02.06 (337.50KB)

• workadound for iOS6.1 bug (failure to start processing in a callback of XMLHttpRequest)

13.02.02 (335.97KB)

• Fixed: decoder for webkit

13.02.01 (335.96KB)

• Added: T("reverb")
• Added: T("chorus")
• Added: T("eq")
• Added: T("mediastream")
• Added: T("-"), T("/"), T("min"), T("max")
• Added: T("WebAudioAPI:recv"), T("WebAudioAPI:send") at extras
• Added: T("MoogFF") at extras
• Renamed: T("phaseshift") to T("phaser")
• Renamed: event names scope, fft to data (T("scope"), T("spectrum"))
• Fixed: T("osc").phase, T("osc").fb
• Fixed: T("biquad").plot()
• Fixed: T("mml").isEnded

13.01.20a (294.82KB)

• Renamed: T("comp").postGain to T("comp").gain

13.01.20 (294.83KB)

• Added: T("adshr"), T("ahdsfr")
• Added: T("comp")
• Added: T("phaseshift")

13.01.18a (268.71KB)

• new version (beta)
• Overview of what's new and changed from old timbre.js v12.XX