Audio manipulation using node.js

Question

My team has been using the Web Audio API/Getusermedia in a product and we are going really well with our chrome and firefox users. But we still have a large base of users th

Answer 1

It could easily be done. Node is simply an IO engine designed for rapid response. If it needs to happen in real time then I imagine latency would be a usability-breaking issue due to networking restraints. If it doesn't, then I think it would be a great solution! :)

Either way here are a couple related resources

https://www.npmjs.org/package/webrtc.io <- latency optimization library intended for work with media streams

http://wac.ircam.fr/ an upcoming conference (Jan 2015) dedicated to the types of problems you are dealing with.

http://www.sitepoint.com/5-libraries-html5-audio-api/ A few web libraries for use with audio. #3 and #4 look like they are related to what you are trying to do

Answer 2

You can try using this (is in development):

Node Web Audio API

https://github.com/sebpiq/node-web-audio-api

Installation

npm install web-audio-api

Demo

node test/manual-testing/AudioContext-sound-output.js