This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The delayTime property of the DelayNode interface is an a-rate AudioParam representing the amount of delay to apply.
delayTime is expressed in seconds, its minimal value is 0, and its maximum value is defined by the maxDelayTime argument of the BaseAudioContext.createDelay method that created it.
Note: Though the AudioParam returned is read-only, the value it represents is not.
An AudioParam.
See BaseAudioContext.createDelay() for example code.
| Specification |
|---|
| Web Audio API> # dom-delaynode-delaytime> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
delayTime |
24 | 12 | 25 | 15 | 7 | 25 | 25 | 14 | 7 | 1.5 | 4.4 | 7 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DelayNode/delayTime