Music Markup Web Components

Music Markup Web Components are built using StencilJS and distributed as web components (currently not using Shadow DOM);

The idea behind it is to provide some general markup for creating music instruments and visualisations using web components.

Currently there are three components:

<mm-context>

This is the top level tag to use to create the audio context. You can provide an alternative-context if you want to provide your own AudioContext, otherwise it will create a shared one for the application

<mm-keyboard>

The <mm-keyboard> tag provides an audio context for creating a keyboard element. It takes one property at the moment oscillator-type, which can be one of sine, square, sawsawtooth or triangle. Inside you attach via a single slot any keys you want to bind. The mm-keyboard listens for real keyboard events as well as events from virtual keys. Currently it also provides the wave form picker.

<mm-key>

The <mm-key> tag is used to add a key to the keyboard. You can provide it a frequency and time for the note, and you can also pass a class-name property to pass down custom classes.

In the current example it's used like this

<mm-context>
  <mm-keyboard oscillator-type="sawtooth">
    <mm-key class-name="white b" frequency="174.614" time="1"></mm-key>
    <mm-key class-name="black as" frequency="184.997" time="1"></mm-key>
    <mm-key class-name="white a" frequency="195.998" time="1"></mm-key>
    <mm-key class-name="black gs" frequency="200.000" time="1"></mm-key>
    <mm-key class-name="white g" frequency="207.652" time="1"></mm-key>
    <mm-key class-name="black fs" frequency="233.082" time="1"></mm-key>
    <mm-key class-name="white f" frequency="246.942" time="1"></mm-key>
    <mm-key class-name="white e" frequency="261.626" time="1"></mm-key> <!-- Middle c -->
    <mm-key class-name="black ds" frequency="277.183" time="1"></mm-key>
    <mm-key class-name="white d" frequency="293.665" time="1"></mm-key>
    <mm-key class-name="black cs" frequency="311.127" time="1"></mm-key>
    <mm-key class-name="white c" frequency="329.628" time="1"></mm-key>
  </mm-keyboard>
</mm-context>

Future features include:

• Adding support for MP3 Audio / WAV files
• Provide theme support (Design different skins)
• Add a visualiser for control
• Support nested tags that provide node pass throughs

Getting Started

To start a new project mm-components uses the Stencil starter

git clone https://github.com/tanepiper/mm-components.git mm-components
cd mm-components
git remote rm origin

and run:

npm install
npm start

To view the build, start an HTTP server inside of the /www directory.

To watch for file changes during development, run:

npm run dev

To build the app for production, run:

npm run build

To run the unit tests once, run:

npm test

To run the unit tests and watch for file changes during development, run:

npm run test.watch