JAVASCRIPT/FLASH MIXING CONSOLE

Here is a fun little project I started a while back and presented at Yahoo! hack day. This is a Javascript (and Flash) mixing console. The UI is created with Javascript using the YUI library.  One area where Javascript does not excel is audio playback. This is where Flash comes in. I am using Soundmanager2 library written by Scott Schiller. This is a really useful Javascript to Flash bridge that can control all the aspects of audio playback from Javascript events.

Here is an example to play with. You might want to turn your speakers down as you play with this since I didn’t hook up a play control. I also noticed some audio latency the more tracks you add. This can create a cool delay effect if you add duplicate tracks. You can add your own tracks by creating an array of Javascript objects with a filepath and name.

For now I will be using this for a personal blog redesign. I would love to build a web app that let’s users share mixes for songwriting purposes. If you have any other useful applications, let me know and feel free to reuse this code.