23 Building a Step Sequencer
Music applications, like sequencers and drum machines, allow users to record, edit, and play back sounds as a collection of organized note arrangements. Due to the nature of the Web Audio API and its relationship to the DOM, music sequencing applications are a challenge to create. In this chapter, you will learn why this is so and how to meet the challenge by building a basic drum pattern step sequencer.
The Problem
The Web Audio API lets you schedule events immediately or in the future. A problem with this approach is that once an event is scheduled, it cannot be unscheduled. So for example, the following code ...
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