WebAssembly / WebAssembly/tool-conventions

audio/MIDI/CV graph functionality?

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Description

would/could these conventions provide the abstractions/system to supply the features of an audio graph?

as in, that could be used to connect audio/MIDI/CV consuming/producing web tools

such a system would enable not just an audio effects rack style flow, but actual in-browser intra-tool modular synthesis, say, between Cardinal and other such apps

if CV streams are a new one to anyone, they're part of the JACK/PipeWire API and the LV2 plugin format

fwiw fyi, the JACK and LV2 systems have a client/port metadata system that is likely worth looking at, in this regard

Carla, set to multi-client mode (system wide audio graph, not separate internal/external graphs), exposes LV2 plugins it hosts as JACK clients in their own right, using the appropriate plugin metadata as properties for the JACK port type, name, pretty-name, etc.

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Start by reviewing the JACK API, LV2 plugin format, and the cited Carla multi-client behavior, then compare them with the conventions used by this repository. Define the scope and abstractions needed for interoperable audio, MIDI, and CV graph connections; done requires an agreed design rather than a single implementation change.

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Tech stack
wasm
Domain
audio-video-rtc
Issue type
Feature
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