The Best JavaScript Audio Libraries for Manipulating Sound

Tate Galbraith
The Startup
Published in
6 min readOct 22, 2020

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Merging code with sound design can be an often overlooked specialization of programming. Unless your daily tasks center around programmatic sound design for games or other interactive programs you might not think twice about having to manipulate sound via code. Downloading prepackaged samples is easy enough and playing a clip is also straightforward, so why reach for anything more complex?

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Tate Galbraith
The Startup

Software Engineer @mixhalo & die-hard Rubyist. Amateur Radio operator with a love for old technology. Tweet at me: https://twitter.com/@Tate_Galbraith