@generative-music/piece-buttafingers v5.2.0

pieces-alex-bainter

A collection of generative music pieces for generative.fm.

Installation

Each piece is available via npm under the @generative-music scope. For example, the piece "Observable Streams" can be installed like so:

npm i @generative-music/piece-observable-streams

Usage

IMPORTANT: The pieces use audio files hosted on samples.generative.fm, which does not support requests from unrecognized origins.

The default export of every piece is a function which takes an object parameter and returns a promise which resolves with a cleanup function once the piece is ready.

The object parameter passed to the exported function of a piece should have three properties:

• audioContext: An instantiated implementation of the Web Audio API AudioContext interface.
• destination: An AudioNode to which the piece's own nodes will be connected.
• preferredFormat: A string containing the audio format to use for any audio files. Currently accepted values are ogg and mp3.

Currently, all pieces use Tone.js which is required to control a piece.

import Tone from 'tone';
import makePiece from '@generative-music/piece-observable-streams';

// Detect ogg support, otherwise use mp3
const preferredFormat = document.createElement('audio').canPlayType('audio/ogg') !== '' ? 'ogg' : 'mp3';

makePiece({ audioContext: Tone.context, destination: Tone.Master, preferredFormat }).then(cleanUp => {
  // Starting the piece
  // Make sure you follow the Chrome Autoplay policy: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes#webaudio
  Tone.Transport.start();

  // Stopping the piece
  Tone.Transport.stop(); // stop Transport events
  Tone.Transport.cancel(); // remove all Transport events
  cleanUp(); // dispose of audio nodes created by the piece
})