JavaScript for Line of Business Applications

Yes, you can create sound in JavaScript – at least, in some browsers.

So for now, playing with creating sound in JavaScript should be considered something experimental but it is definitely fun to play with, just not for your super, awesome, must-work-in-every-browser game.

I found several sites that had build up complex libraries based on the Web Audio API. These weren’t the greatest things to learn the basics from, but I eventually was able to pare some of the code down to the bare minimum needed to create sounds in the browser. 

There are a few tutorials linked to from there as well, but none really covered what I was interested in, which is why I created this tutorial.

So, to get down to it, let’s create some noise.