User Guide

This user guide contains a few tutorials covering the main features of ipytone. Do not hesitate to also check the Tone.js Documentation and Wiki, which both contain useful information. Ipytone works very much like Tone.js and copies its API in Python.

• Getting Started
  • Audio nodes
    • Connecting audio nodes
    • Method chaining
  • Audio node controls
    • Basic node properties
    • Param and Signal
    • Controlling audio nodes with Python
      • “Pure-Python” example
      • Using ipytone (Tone.js) scheduling
    • Controling audio nodes with (ipy)widgets
  • Dispose audio nodes
• Instruments
  • Building a synth from scratch
    • Oscillator
    • Envelope
  • Built-in instruments
    • Monophonic synths
    • Polyphonic synths
• Audio Samples
  • Audio buffers
    • Example 1: load one sample from a numpy array
    • Example 2: load multiple samples from files (urls)
    • Buffer attributes
  • Player
  • Sampler
  • Dispose buffers
• Timeline
  • Transport
    • Playback state, position, bpm, time signature…
  • Basic scheduling
    • Using callbacks
    • Using contexts
  • Advanced scheduling
    • Event
    • Loop
    • Part
    • Sequence
    • Pattern
    • Dispose events
• Synchronizing Audio State
  • Observing state from Python
    • Observing both state and time
  • Linking audio widgets
  • Analysis audio nodes
    • Analyser
    • FFT and Waveform
    • Meter and DCMeter
• Advanced Usage
  • Building custom audio nodes
  • Building custom instruments