Rapid Prototyping of New Instruments with CodeCircle Michael Zbyszynski Mick Grierson Matthew Yee-King EAVI Group, Department of EAVI Group, Department of EAVI Group, Department of Computing Computing Computing Goldsmiths University of Goldsmiths University of Goldsmiths University of London London London New Cross, London, SE14 New Cross, London, SE14 New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, UK 6NW, UK 6NW, UK
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ABSTRACT faces to be programmed in JavaScript. Wyse and Subrama- Our research examines the use of CodeCircle, an online, col- nian[15] examine computer music in browsers more gener- laborative HTML, CSS, and JavaScript editor, as a rapid ally, noting the potential offered by browsers' intrinsic con- prototyping environment for musically expressive instru- nection to networks, ease of access, and portability. New ments. In CodeCircle, we use two primary libraries: Max- standards from W3C and extensions to JavaScript have iLib and RapidLib. MaxiLib is a synthesis and sample pro- made browser technology more \viable" for musical work. cessing library which interfaces with the Web Audio API However, timing can be problematic. Web Audio API for sound generation in the browser. RapidLib is a prod- scripts are run in the browser's main thread, which can be uct of the Rapid-Mix project, and allows users to imple- prone to latency and jitter. Jitter can be reduced by using ment interactive machine learning, using \programming by the Web Audio Clock, rather than the JavaScript clock.[13] demonstration" to design new expressive interactions. Large buffer sizes are required (>1024 samples), and cur- rent implementations impose a fixed latency of two buffers.