Webxophone: Web audio wind instrument

Abstract

In last few years, a musical application has developed by developer and computer software company such as sound effects, midi controller, musical instrument for music playing and collaborate musical works in mobile, tablet PC with iPhone or Android. Especially, by Web technologies, Web audio application with Web Audio API have expeditiously studied thought JavaScript that possibility of novel and flexible language. The Webxophone is a web wind instrument designed for mobile with the web and mobile technologies that microphone input (for blowing), multitouch (for fingering button), Gyro sensors, sound processing and synthesis in real-time on the web without install. This paper aims to present a web wind instrument application like saxophone through Web Audio API with JavaScript for musical expression and various musical performance. © 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.