- How to Use This Book
- Who This Book Is For
- What You’ll Build
- How This Book Is Structured
- Using the Code Examples
- How to Read This Book
- Getting Help
- Work in Progress
- Let’s Get Started!
- Chapter 1: Sound & Digital Audio Essentials
- Introduction
- What is Sound?
- Digital Audio Basics
- Audio File Formats
- Essential Music Theory
- Bringing It Together
- Summary
- What’s Next
- Chapter 2: Your First Sounds with Tone.js
- Introduction
- Why Tone.js?
- Setting Up and Starting the Audio Context
- Basic Synths
- Playing Notes and Sequences
- Tone.Transport for Timing
- Bringing It Together
- Chapter Project: Interactive Keyboard
- Summary
- Try It Yourself
- What’s Next
- Chapter 3: Working with Audio Files
- Introduction
- Loading and Playing Samples with Tone.Player
- Tone.Sampler for Multi-Sample Instruments
- Buffering and Streaming Considerations
- Streaming with MediaElementSource
- Extracting Waveform Data for Visualization
- Bringing It Together
- Chapter Project: Sample Player with Waveform Display
- Summary
- Try It Yourself
- What’s Next
- Chapter 4: Synthesis Fundamentals
- Introduction
- Understanding Oscillators
- Envelopes (ADSR) and Amplitude Shaping
- Filters and Frequency Shaping
- Combining Oscillators
- Bringing It Together
- Chapter Project: Build Your Own Synth Voice
- Summary
- Try It Yourself
- What’s Next
- How to Use This Book
Mastering Tone.js
Sound, Synthesis & Visualization for the Web
Learn to build audio applications for the web with Tone.js through hands-on examples. Create synthesizers, process audio files, visualize waveforms, and build interactive instruments. No prior audio programming experience required.
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Learn to build audio applications for the web with Tone.js through hands-on, practical examples.
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- Create synthesizers and audio effects
- Work with audio files and samples
- Visualize waveforms and frequency data
- Build sequencers and interactive instruments
- Master music theory concepts for developers
Every chapter includes working code examples you can run in your browser at masteringtonejs.com.
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Perfect for web developers who want to add sound to their projects. No prior audio programming experience required.
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Naomi Aro
Naomi Aro is a web developer and creator of waveform-playlist, an open-source Web Audio editor used by developers worldwide since 2013. With experience at Spotify and Music AI, and a background as an orchestral violist, she brings both technical expertise and musical insight to teaching audio programming.
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