@dancecuts/soundtouchjs-scheduled-audio-worklet v0.1.24

SoundTouchJS Scheduled Audio Worklet

This package was created as a fork from @cutterbl's soundtouchjs-audio-worklet, with various improvements and most importantly adds the ability to schedule playback of the worklet, similar to the way AudioBufferSourceNode works.

Installation

To install the package:

• yarn add @dancecuts/soundtouchjs-scheduled-audio-worklet
• OR
• npm install @dancecuts/soundtouchjs-scheduled-audio-worklet.

Next you'll need to register the actual worklet. The worklet file is located at /dist/scheduled-soundtouch-worklet.js. Here's a sample of how to add an AudioWorklet:

const context = new AudioContext();
await context.audioWorklet.addModule("scheduled-soundtouch-worklet.js");
// now the ScheduledSoundTouchWorklet is registered!

I recommend copying the /dist/scheduled-soundtouch-worklet.js file to your project's /public directory, then adding the module from that path.

Creating a ScheduledSoundTouchNode

After you've read in an audio file and decoded it to an AudioBuffer, you can easily create a ScheduledSoundTouchNode for playback using the createScheduledSoundTouchNode function:

import {createScheduledSoundTouchNode} from "@dancecuts/soundtouchjs-audio-worklet";

const context = new AudioContext();
AudioBuffer buffer;
const node = createScheduledSoundTouchNode(audioContext, buffer);

ScheduledSoundTouchNode properties

The ScheduledSoundTouchNode has the following properties you can change:

• pitch (float): Changes the pitch of playback. Defaults to 1.
  • Note: pitch takes precendence over pitchSemitones, meaning if both are set only pitch will apply.
• pitchSemitones (float): Changes the pitch of playback in half-step increments. Defaults to 0.
• rate (float): Controls the "rate" of playback (tempo is changed and affects pitch). Defaults to 1.
• tempo (float): Controls the tempo of playback (tempo is changed and does not affect pitch). Defaults to 1.

Note: these properties can be changed at any time, even if ready is false.

Example: to change the pitch of node to 2:

node.pitch = 2;

There are also the following read-only properties:

• ready (boolean): True if the worklet is ready for playback.
• playing (boolean): True if playback is active.
• duration (float): The duration of the provided buffer.
• bufferLength (float): The length of the provided buffer.
• sampleRate (float): The sample rate of the provided buffer.
• numberOfChannels (int): The number of channels of the provided buffer.

ScheduledSoundTouchNode events

You can listen to the following events:

• onended: called when playback has ended, either from: the duration parameter of start() being reached, the end of the audio buffer, or stop() being called.
• oninitialized: called when the worklet is ready for playback. The instance is provided as a parameter.

Example: to listen to the onended event of node:

node.onended = () => {
  //...do disconnect()s or other work here...
};

ScheduledSoundTouchNode playback

start()

The start() function has three optional parameters to control playback, which are based off of AudioBufferSourceNode's start() function:

• when (float, optional): Used to schedule playback of this node. Provide a value in seconds relative to the provided AudioContext's currentTime. Default is the provided AudioContext's currentTime (meaning playback begins immediately).
• offset (float, optional): Where in the audio source to start at, in seconds. Default is 0.
• duration (float, optional): How long to play the audio source for, in seconds. Default is the duration of the audio buffer.

Note: You cannot call start() until the worklet is ready! You can check if it's ready by checking the .ready property, or listening to the oninitialized event.

Example: to play the node 2 seconds from now, 10 seconds into the track for 5 seconds:

node.start(context.currentTime + 2, 10, 5);

stop()

Stops playback immediately. Unlike AudioBufferSourceNode, this node can be reused and start() can be called as many times as you need.

Complete example

For a live demonstration, check out /example. If loading the worklet is throwing CORS errors, you'll need to host it on a server - I recommend using the serve package for this.

import {createScheduledSoundTouchNode} from "@dancecuts/soundtouchjs-audio-worklet";

const context = new AudioContext();
await context.audioWorklet.addModule("scheduled-soundtouch-worklet.js");
// now the ScheduledSoundTouchWorklet is registered!

// read in "my-audio-file.mp3" and decode it as an AudioBuffer
const fileArrayBuffer = await (await fetch("./my-audio-file.mp3")).arrayBuffer();
const buffer = await context.decodeAudioData(fileArrayBuffer);
// create node
const node = createScheduledSoundTouchNode(audioContext, buffer);
// ...assign properties as needed... 
node.pitch = 1.2; 
node.tempo = 1.4;

node.oninitialized = () => {
  // node is now ready for playback
  node.connect(context);
  node.start(context.currentTime + 2, 10, 5);
};
node.onended = () => {
  // node finished playing, clean up
  node.disconnect();
};