Initializing CsoundObj in Web Csound

Web Csound
#1

Hi,

I’m seeing two ways people are initializing CsoundObj in Web Csound.

  1. CsoundObj.importScripts("./csound/").then(() => {setupCsound();}); (example here)
  2. CsoundObj.initialize().then(() => {startCsound();}); (example here)

Can someone explain the difference between the two in terms of how they initialize CsoundObj?

Thanks!
Jason

#2

importScripts() was what was in the API for a long while, but I modified it in 6.15.0 to initialize() and added the ability to send in an AudioContext to use, which was important for making the Csound nodes work in a larger Webaudio graph.

That said, the new version of WebAudio Csound has undergone many changes for 6.16.0 and the process has changed again. New code looks like:

const cs = await Csound();  // may pass in arguments as object to Csound

Or since it is a promise you can use:

Csound().then(() => {
});

6.16.0-beta is already published to NPM for testing though we are waiting for a few more changes to publish beta4, which we’ll then announce for testing. We’ll have the above documented in tutorials.

#3

Fantastic, thanks for the explanation, Steven! Makes sense. I’m looking forward to 6.16.0!

Jason