The startRendering()
method of the OfflineAudioContext
Interface starts rendering the audio graph, taking into account the current connections and the current scheduled changes.
The complete
event (of type OfflineAudioCompletionEvent
) is raised when the rendering is finished, containing the resulting AudioBuffer
in its renderedBuffer
property.
Browsers currently support two versions of the startRendering()
method — an older event-based version and a newer promise-based version. The former will eventually be removed, but currently both mechanisms are provided for legacy reasons.
A Promise
that fulfills with an AudioBuffer
.
In this simple example, we declare both an AudioContext
and an OfflineAudioContext
object. We use the AudioContext
to load an audio track via XHR (BaseAudioContext.decodeAudioData
), then the OfflineAudioContext
to render the audio into an AudioBufferSourceNode
and play the track through. After the offline audio graph is set up, you need to render it to an AudioBuffer
using OfflineAudioContext.startRendering
.
When the startRendering()
promise resolves, rendering has completed and the output AudioBuffer
is returned out of the promise.
At this point we create another audio context, create an AudioBufferSourceNode
inside it, and set its buffer to be equal to the promise AudioBuffer
. This is then played as part of a simple standard audio graph.
const audioCtx = new AudioContext();
const offlineCtx = new OfflineAudioContext(2, 44100 * 40, 44100);
source = offlineCtx.createBufferSource();
function getData() {
request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open("GET", "viper.ogg", true);
request.responseType = "arraybuffer";
request.onload = () => {
const audioData = request.response;
audioCtx.decodeAudioData(audioData, (buffer) => {
myBuffer = buffer;
source.buffer = myBuffer;
source.connect(offlineCtx.destination);
source.start();
offlineCtx
.startRendering()
.then((renderedBuffer) => {
console.log("Rendering completed successfully");
const offlineAudioCtx = new AudioContext();
const song = offlineAudioCtx.createBufferSource();
song.buffer = renderedBuffer;
song.connect(offlineAudioCtx.destination);
play.onclick = () => {
song.start();
};
})
.catch((err) => {
console.error(`Rendering failed: ${err}`);
});
});
};
request.send();
}
getData();