Roadmap

[alex-wilmer]

Synth basics via JS ✅

• Audio Context
• Oscillator Nodes
  • Frequency
  • Type (basic waveforms: sin, triangle, square, sawtooth)
• Connecting nodes together + connecting to context.destination
• Starting and stopping Oscillators (the basic way, creating new ones every time and leaving the stopped ones for the GC to take care of)
• Storing currently active oscillators and subsequently their downstream nodes (effects chain)
• Modifying node values at runtime using events like onmousemove
• Gain Nodes and ramping values up or down (such as volume) relative to context.currentTime (ADSR)
• Mapping input keycodes to pitches (using AudioKeys)

Synth Theory via Ableton

• Basics of Overtone Series and carrier wave manipulation ✅
• Additive vs Subtractive Synthesis
• FM Synthesis ✅
• Wavetable Synthesis
• Vocoders

Tempo

• What is BPM?

Sampling in Ableton

• Drums & Percussion
• Vocals
• Resampling

Sampling basics in JS

• fetching
  • https://github.com/alex-wilmer/sampler-101/blob/master/src/step1.js