[Jasper_]

If you're a creative mind and you constrain yourselves to the effects available in Web Audio, I'm sure you'll be just at home.

The effects are useful in one setting: hobbyist and toy usage, where you really don't have that many constraints and can play with whatever cool things are around. That said, I'm sure you'd actually get a lot more mileage out of a library of user-made script nodes, rather than whatever the browsers have built for you.

If you're trying to build something production-ready, or port an existing system to the web, most of the fun toys seem like just that: toys.

AudioWorklets don't look like they would improve things for me, but that's a topic for another blog post.

[fenomas]

I didn't say I was making trivial toy that isn't production ready. :| I just said I'm not using script nodes, and I think that's what TFA boils down to - half of it is about script nodes not being usable and the other half is about sample buffers not being suitable replacements for script nodes.

And obviously not having raw script access isn't a good thing. Nonetheless, the other nodes mostly work as advertised, in my limited experience so far, so the stuff that you'd expect to be able to do with them (e.g. FM/AM synthesis) seems to work pretty well.

> AudioWorklets don't look like they would improve things for me, but that's a topic for another blog post.

AFAIK worklets are supposed to be script processor nodes that work performantly. They wouldn't solve the sample rate problems mentioned in TFA but apart from that I'd think they should be pretty usable if they someday work as advertised.

[bigbadotis]

Agreed that you can do much more than "trivial toys" with the current WAAPI! But you can only do a small part of FM without feedback (unless you're just talking about vibrato as opposed to canonical FM synthesis). Look at the modulation paths (aka algorithms) of original Yamaha FM synths...