Before the HTML5 <audio> element, Flash or another plugin was required to break the silence of the web. While audio on the web no longer requires a plugin, the audio tag brings significant limitations for implementing sophisticated games and interactive applications. The Web Audio API is a high-level JavaScript API for processing and synthesizing audio in web applications. The goal of this API is to include capabilities found in modern game audio engines and some of the mixing, processing, and filtering tasks that are found in modern desktop audio production applications. What follows is a gentle introduction to using this powerful API. GETTING STARTED WITH THE AUDIOCONTEXT An AudioContext is for managing and playing all sounds. To produce a sound using the Web Audio API, create one or more sound sources and connect them to the sound destination provided by the AudioContext instance. This connection doesn't need to be direct, and can go through any number of i