Jean-Philippe Côté

Jean-Philippe Côté is an educator, technologist and artist based in Montréal (Québec, Canada). He has been using JavaScript since the very beginning for both professional work and artistic projects. He is a respected contributor of the open source community, especially in the fields of music technology, creative coding and physical computing. In 2020, he joined the ranks of the W3C's Web Audio Group. Jean-Philippe holds a master's degree in communication and is currently pursuing a PhD in arts studies and practices. He is a professor at Collège Édouard-Montpetit.

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MIDI in the Browser... Let's Rock the Web!

JSNation 2022

28 min

MIDI in the Browser... Let's Rock the Web!

If you own an electronic music instrument made in the last 3 decades, it most likely supports the MIDI protocol. What if I told you that it is possible to interact with your keytar or drum machine directly from your beloved browser? You would go crazy, right? Well, prepare to do so…With built-in support in Chrome, Firefox and Opera, this possibility is now a reality. This talk will introduce the audience to the Web MIDI API and to my own WEBMIDI.js library so you can get rockin' fast.Web devs, man your synths!