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FAUST online IDE: dynamically compile and publish FAUST code as WebAudio Plugins

Stéphane Letz, Shihong Ren, Yann Orlarey, Romain Michon, Dominique Fober, ElMehdi Aamari, Michel Buffa, Jerome Lebrun
Developing or porting existing audio and MIDI effects or instruments for the Web platform is a hot topic. Several initiatives, like business enterprise based ones (Propellerhead recently presented its Rack Extension running on the Web1), to more community based open-source projects are emerging. All of them aim to facilitate porting existing code base (usually developed in native languages like C/C++) as well as facilitating the use of existing audio DSP languages and platforms.We present a solution based around the FAUST DSP audio language, its redesigned Web based editor, and the integration of a plugin GUI editor allowing to directly test, generate and deploy WebAudio Plugins (WAP). This recently proposed plugin format aims to facilitate the integration of pure native WebAudio based components, some ported from native languages like C/C++, as well as plugins written in audio DSP Domain Specific Languages. The paper will describe the complete workflow, from the Faust DSP source written and tested in a fully functional editor to a self-contained plugin running in a separate host application.
            
@inproceedings{2019_38,
  abstract = {Developing or porting existing audio and MIDI effects or instruments for the Web platform is a hot topic. Several initiatives, like business enterprise based ones (Propellerhead recently presented its Rack Extension running on the Web1), to more community based open-source projects are emerging. All of them aim to facilitate porting existing code base (usually developed in native languages like C/C++) as well as facilitating the use of existing audio DSP languages and platforms.We present a solution based around the FAUST DSP audio language, its redesigned Web based editor, and the integration of a plugin GUI editor allowing to directly test, generate and deploy WebAudio Plugins (WAP). This recently proposed plugin format aims to facilitate the integration of pure native WebAudio based components, some ported from native languages like C/C++, as well as plugins written in audio DSP Domain Specific Languages. The paper will describe the complete workflow, from the Faust DSP source written and tested in a fully functional editor to a self-contained plugin running in a separate host application.},
  address = {Trondheim, Norway},
  author = {Letz, Stéphane  and Ren, Shihong and Orlarey, Yann and Michon, Romain and Fober, Dominique and Aamari, ElMehdi and Buffa, Michel and Lebrun, Jerome},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Web Audio Conference},
  editor = {Xambó, Anna and Martín, Sara R. and Roma, Gerard},
  month = {December},
  pages = {71--76},
  publisher = {NTNU},
  series = {WAC '19},
  title = {FAUST online IDE: dynamically compile and publish FAUST code as WebAudio Plugins},
  year = {2019},
  ISSN = {2663-5844}
}