Cracked – Method chaining/CSS-style selector web audio library

by stephenhandley on 5/16/2025, 2:46:18 AM with 23 comments

  • by freeamz on 5/16/2025, 4:23:26 AM

    Hmm seems like the jQuery of Web Audio API? How are the browser support on mobile?

    Edit: with a bit pure data flavor mixed in... super nice!

  • by nailer on 5/16/2025, 3:53:41 AM

    Just in case you scrolled past it, the live demo was in the github website link:

    https://idroppedmyphonethescreencracked.tumblr.com/

  • by stephenhandley on 5/16/2025, 2:46:18 AM

    WebAudio-based library that provides quick way to set up a web audio graph.

    Desktop wrapper: https://github.com/billorcutt/Cracked

    Cat examples: https://idroppedmyphonethescreencracked.tumblr.com/

  • by wesz on 5/16/2025, 3:08:03 AM

    This is brilliant! I'm gonna use it to prototype synths for my drum patterns/bass lines website.

  • by xipix on 5/16/2025, 5:50:06 AM

    Can it handle "nodes" that emit a different number of audio samples than they consume?

    I'm thinking of time stretch effects like mine https://github.com/bungee-audio-stretch/bungee

  • by chaosprint on 5/16/2025, 9:09:42 AM

    if you are looking for some performant declarative web audio lib in js, check:

    https://glicol.js.org/

    it's ported from Rust

  • by tristanMatthias on 5/16/2025, 5:10:45 AM

    Would love to plug this into https://synthia.app

  • by phantomathkg on 5/16/2025, 4:36:31 AM

    Interesting library with a rather weird name.

  • by noelwelsh on 5/16/2025, 8:33:35 AM

    I find the underlying premise a bit odd. I can name values in Javascript just fine:

    const whatever = ...

    I would rather refer to them by these names than by strings. It's both faster and safer to do so.

  • by gitroom on 5/16/2025, 5:47:15 AM

    This is super cool, Im definitely gonna mess around with it for my own synth experiments!