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WebAudio Modules 2.0: Audio Plugins for the Web Platform - Michel Buffa - ADC22
Web Audio Modules 2.0 (WAM) is the latest version of an open source audio plugin standard for the web platform, developed since 2015 by a group of academic researchers and developers from the computer music industry. Version 2.0 enables the development of audio effects, instruments, and MIDI controllers as plugins and compatible hosts and takes into account recent evolution in the development of web technologies. Indeed, since 2018 W3C Web standards have matured: the appearance of WebAssembly, stabilization of WebComponents, support for AudioWorklets [1] in the Web Audio API, and continued evolution of JavaScript have all helped make professional-grade, Web-based audio production a reality. In addition, commercial companies now offer digital audio workstations (DAW) on the Web which act as host Web applications and support plugins [2] (including WAM ones). Taking into account these developments and the feedback received from developers over the past few years, we released “Web Audio Modules 2.0” (WAM2), an open source SDK and API distributed as four GitHub repositories (https://github.com/webaudiomodules) and as npm modules (MIT License, see https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=keywords:webaudiomodules). WAM2 now supports parameter automation, plugin groups, audio thread isolation, midi events, plugin/host extended communication. WAM2 is Web-aware: plugins can be loaded and instantiated by hosts using a simple URI using dynamic imports.
One of the repository, wam-examples, comes with more than 20 examples of plugins, written using different languages and building chain. It can be tried online here: https://mainline.i3s.unice.fr/wam2/packages/_/
WebAudio Modules 2.0 comes also with more extended examples such as a guitar effect pedalboard plugin ( https://wam-bank.herokuapp.com/), an open source DAW prototype (https://wam-openstudio.vidalmazuy.fr/), a collaborative sequencer (sort of Ableton Live meets Google Docs) entirely developed with WAM2 (https://sequencer.party/), which comes with more than 20 open source WAM2 plugins.
Furthermore, the FAUST online IDE (https://faustide.grame.fr/) can now compile FAUST code into a WAM2 plugin, including GUIs and online publication for reuse in any compatible host (tutorial here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HDEm4m_cD47YBuDilzGYiANYQDktj56Njyv0umGYO6o/edit?usp=sharing-)
In this talk, we propose to present the WAM2 proposal, illustrated by many interactive demonstrations of plugins and host, including open source and commercial ones.
[1] H. Choi. Audioworklet: the Future of Web Audio. International Computer Music Conference ICMC 2018.
[2] M. Buffa, J. Lebrun, S. Ren, S. Letz, Y. Orlarey, and al.. Emerging W3C APIs opened up commercial opportunities for computer music applications. The Web Conference 2020 - DevTrack, Apr 2020, Taipei.
Slides: link will be updated when available.
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Michel Buffa
Michel Buffa is a professor/researcher at University Côte d'Azur, a member of the WIMMICS research group, common to INRIA and to the I3S Laboratory (CNRS). He contributed to the development of the WebAudio research field, since he participated in all WebAudio Conferences, being part of each program committee since 2015 (he organized the last edition in 2022). He actively works with the W3C WebAudio working group.
Along with other professional audio developers and academic researchers, he is actively involved in the development of Web Audio Modules, a plugin standard for the Web. Some of his plugins (tube guitar amplifier simulators) are available in commercial Digital Audio Workstations. He has been the national coordinator of the French research project WASABI, which consists of building a 2M songs knowledge database that mixes metadata from cultural, lyrics, and audio analysis, with Web Audio applications on top of it.
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Special thanks to the ADC22 Team:
Lina Berzinskas
Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper
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