Compatibility: Simple Melody App

[ksen0]

In terms of backwards compatibility, despite some limitations, most common uses should work. All the following examples are from the Simple Melody App tutorial.

1: console logging on osc

// Variable for frequency (middle C).
let myFreq = 262;

// Variable for Oscillator.
let osc;

function setup() {
  createCanvas(400, 400);

  /* Create an Oscillator object with a 
  Frequency defined by the variable myFreq */

  osc = new p5.Oscillator(myFreq);
  console.log(osc.f);
}

function draw() {
  background(220);
}

• in p5.js v1: console logs 262
• in p5.js v2 console logs undefined ❌

2: toggling based on osc.started

// Variable for Oscillator.
let osc;

// Middle C frequency.
let myFreq = 262;
function setup() {
  createCanvas(400, 400);
  // Create the Oscillator object.
  osc = new p5.Oscillator(myFreq);
  // console.log(osc.f);
}

function draw() {
  background(220);
}

function mousePressed() {
  // Toggle the note that is playing.
  if (osc.started) {
    osc.stop();
  } else {
    osc.start();
  }
}

• in p5.js v1: mouse press toggles sound
• in p5.js v2: mouse press has no effect ❌

3: Overall melody app not working

// Variable for frequency (middle C).
let myFreq = 262;

// Array of frequencies in C Major.
let frequencies = [
  myFreq,
  (myFreq * 9) / 8,
  (myFreq * 5) / 4,
  (myFreq * 4) / 3,
  (myFreq * 3) / 2,
  (myFreq * 5) / 3,
  (myFreq * 15) / 8,
  myFreq * 2,
];

// Melody Object for C Major
let melody = {name: '',
              notesIndex: [],
              tempo: 0
             };


// Empty array for oscillator objects.
let oscillators = [];

// Calculate duration of each note in seconds.
let noteDuration = 60 / melody.tempo;

/* number of notes that can be played (equal to the number of frequencies/oscillators) */
let numNotes = frequencies.length;

//canvas width
let cWidth = 400;

// Tempo selection list (in beats per min).
let tempoList = [
  "100",
  "110",
  "120",
  "130",
  "140",
  "150",
  "160",
  "170",
  "180",
  "190",
  "200",
  "210",
  "220",
  "230",
  "240",
  "250",
  "260",
  "270",
  "280",
  "290",
  "300"
];

// Variable for tempo dropdown.
let tempoSelect;

function setup() {
  createCanvas(cWidth, 400);

  // Initialize oscillators and place in oscillators array.
  for (let freq of frequencies) {
    osc = new p5.Oscillator(freq);
    oscillators.push(osc);
  }
  //set color mode to HSB (better for using notes to color keys)
  colorMode(HSB);

  // Play button.
  let playButton = createButton("🎵 Play your song when you are done! 🎶");
  playButton.position(width * 0.2, 540);
  playButton.mouseClicked(play);

  // Text to prompt users to set tempo
  let p = createP("Step 1: Select a tempo");
  p.style("color", "magenta");
  p.position(10, 415);

  // Tempo dropdown menu.
  tempoSelect = createSelect();
  tempoSelect.position(10, 455);
  tempoSelect.option(0);

  // Add tempos to dropdown options.
  for (let tempo of tempoList) {
    tempoSelect.option(tempo);
  }
  
  // Directions to input text.
let p2 = createP('Step 2: Type a name for your melody and click "Set name"');
p2.style("color", "magenta");
p2.position(10, 465);

  // Name of song input.
    nameInput = createInput("Type a name and set");
  	nameInput.position(10, 500);
  	nameInput.size(200);
  
  // Name button.
let nameButton = createButton('Set name');
nameButton.position(250, 500);
nameButton.mouseClicked(setName);

  // Reset button.
let resetButton = createButton('Reset Melody');
resetButton.position(150, 580);
resetButton.mouseClicked(resetMelody);

}

function draw() {
  background(220);
  
  // Draw and color keys on canvas
  drawMelody();
  
  // Call setTempo() when selected
  tempoSelect.changed(setTempo);
  
  // Display melody name
  fill("magenta")
  textSize(20)
  text(`Melody Name: 
${melody.name}`, 50, 50);
  
  // Display melody name
  fill("magenta")
  textSize(20)
  text(`Tempo: 
${tempoSelect.selected()}`, 300, 50);
}


//update melody object when clicked
function mousePressed() {
    updateMelody();
}


// Starts playing a note at index n in the oscillators array.
function playNote(n) {
  // Starts oscillator if needed.
  if (oscillators[n].started === false) {
    oscillators[n].start();
    // Starts playing the note by increasing the volume with a 0.01 sec fade-in.
    oscillators[n].amp(1, 0.01);
  }

  // Stops playing the note after number of seconds stored in noteDuration * 1000
  setTimeout(stopNote, noteDuration * 1000, n);
}

// Stops playing the note.
function stopNote(n) {
  // Lower oscillator volume to 0.
  oscillators[n].amp(0, 0.01);

  // Stop the oscillator.
  oscillators[n].stop();
}

// Plays the notes in a melody.
function play() {
  // Read each [index, note] in melody.notesIndex
  for (let [index, note] of melody.notesIndex.entries()) {
    // Play each note at scheduled time
    setTimeout(playNote, noteDuration * 1000 * index, note);
  }
  
  //prints index of notes from Major C for melody
  console.log(`${melody.notesIndex}`)
}

//User Interface
function drawMelody() {
  // draw key buttons
  let keyWidth = width / numNotes;

  //Loop for the number of notes available
  for (let i = 0; i < numNotes; i++) {
    //set x for each element
    let x = i * keyWidth;
    let y = keyWidth * 3; // height 3x width

    /*  
    Check if the oscillator[i] has started playing and
    the index for the oscillator (i) matches the value 
    in melody.notesIndex[i]
      */
    if (oscillators[i].started) {
 

      //true: define a local variable h
      //using map(), numNotes and i
      let h = map(i, 0, numNotes, 0, 360);
      // use h in fill to set the color of the button
      fill(h, 100, 100);
    } else {
      fill("white");
    }

    // Draw a rounded rectangle button.
    rect(x, y, keyWidth, keyWidth * 2, 10);
  }
}

// Sets tempo of melody object
function setTempo() {
  // Check that the tempo choice isn’t 0
  if (tempoSelect.selected() !== 0) {
    melody.tempo = tempoSelect.selected();
    noteDuration = 60 / melody.tempo;
  }
}

// Set name of melody.
function setName(){
    melody.name = nameInput.value();
}

//Reset melody object
function resetMelody(){
  // Empty melody object
  melody.name =  "Untitled", 
  melody.notesIndex = [], 
  melody.tempo = 0,
    
  // Reset tempo dropdown
  tempoSelect.selected(0);
      }

//save notes based on rectangles on the screen
function updateMelody() {
  //width of keys
  let keyWidth = width / numNotes;
  
  //Loop for the number of notes available
  for (let i = 0; i < numNotes; i++) {
    //set x and y for each element
    let x = i * keyWidth;
    let y = keyWidth * 3;
  
        /* Check if the mouse is 
        over the key */
        if (mouseX > x && 
            mouseX < x + keyWidth && 
            mouseY > y && 
            mouseY < y + keyWidth * 2) {
          
          //save notes index array
          let notes = melody.notesIndex;
          
          //add new note index to the array
          notes.push(i);
          
          //reassign to melody object
          melody.notesIndex = notes;
          
          //play note at that index
          playNote(i);
        }
      }
}

• in p5.js v1: here's the working code in v1
• in p5.js v2: app does not work ❌ - if the above 2 issues resolved it will likely work

[sidwellr]

Backwards compatibility is not one of the listed goals for this new version of p5.sound, so I don't know where the expectation that "most common uses should work" came from. These examples illustrate this point.

For example 1, the old p5.sound stored the current oscillator frequency in osc.f; the new version stores it in osc.frequency. Make this change to line 14 and it will work. I note that neither osc.f nor osc.frequency are documented. The old version does have a method osc.getFreq() which returns the frequency, but this doesn't exist in the new version.

For examples 2 and 3, osc.started doesn't exist in the new version, and isn't documented in the old version. For both versions, the p5.Oscillator example tracks the status manually using its own playing variable, and that would be a reasonable way to fix example 2. But example 3 has lots of oscillators and tracking the status of each manually would be more difficult. An alternative is to use osc.node.state which is either "started" or "stopped"

So in example 2, replace if (osc.started) { with if (osc.node.state === "started") {, and in example 3, replace if (oscillators[n].started === false) { with if (oscillators[n].node.state === "stopped") {.

So one solution here is to update the tutorial to use the new version 2 constructs.

If there is a desire to improve backwards compatibility, I suggest adding a method osc.getFreq() which just returns osc.frequency and a getter osc.started which returns osc.node.state === "started". But the tutorial would still need to be updated to use the documented osc.getFreq() instead of osc.f.

[ogbabydiesal]

1. good catch! it does exist but with a more descriptive name
2. the next version will have started I commited it here: fd12ce7
3. can add getFreq() discussed this with @ksen0
4. I think updateing example to use new getFreq() method sounds good to me
5. also if you want to take any of this one be my guest or else I can get to it this weekend

[ksen0]

Will be easier to embed editable sketches when processing/p5.js-website#1469 is merged

[ogbabydiesal]

simple melody app has be merged into p5 website, audionode.freq returns frequency