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Reputation: 67310

Web Audio API — squaring a signal by using a Gain

Should it be possible to square a signal by creating a Gain instance and connecting the signal both to the gain input and amplitude control parameter? Because I am seeing odd results at least in Firefox. I can see that Tone.js uses a wave-shaper instead for a pow operation, so perhaps this is the way to go. But I'm curious, since the API says the gain parameter is audio-rate, obviously there must be some delays involved.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 406

Answers (2)

Raymond Toy
Raymond Toy

Reputation: 6056

This works for me:

var c = new AudioContext();
var o = c.createOscillator();
var g = c.createGain();
g.gain.value = 0;
g.connect(c.destination);
o.connect(g);
o.connect(g.gain);
o.start();
o.stop(c.currentTime + 2);

You can't tell from listening but if you paste the code into http://hoch.github.io/canopy/, you can see that the sine wave has been squared.

Upvotes: 2

cwilso
cwilso

Reputation: 13918

Yes, it works to square a signal this way. (I use it in my vocoder.) There should be no delay in doing things this way.

Upvotes: 1

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