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title: AnalyserNode.getByteTimeDomainData()
slug: Web/API/AnalyserNode/getByteTimeDomainData
page-type: web-api-instance-method
browser-compat: api.AnalyserNode.getByteTimeDomainData

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{{ APIRef("Mountain View APIRef Project") }}

The getByteTimeDomainData() method of the {{ domxref("AnalyserNode") }} Interface copies the current waveform, or time-domain, data into a {{jsxref("Uint8Array")}} (unsigned byte array) passed into it.

If the array has fewer elements than the {{domxref("AnalyserNode.fftSize")}}, excess elements are dropped. If it has more elements than needed, excess elements are ignored.

Syntax

getByteTimeDomainData(array)

Parameters

• array

  • : The {{jsxref("Uint8Array")}} that the time domain data will be copied to. If the array has fewer elements than the {{domxref("AnalyserNode.fftSize")}}, excess elements are dropped. If it has more elements than needed, excess elements are ignored.

Return value

None ({{jsxref("undefined")}}).

Examples

The following example shows basic usage of an {{domxref("AudioContext")}} to create an AnalyserNode, then {{domxref("window.requestAnimationFrame()","requestAnimationFrame")}} and {{htmlelement("canvas")}} to collect time domain data repeatedly and draw an "oscilloscope style" output of the current audio input. For more complete applied examples/information, check out our Voice-change-O-matic demo (see app.js lines 108–193 for relevant code).relevant code).

const audioCtx = new (window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext)();
const analyser = audioCtx.createAnalyser();

// …

analyser.fftSize = 2048;
const bufferLength = analyser.fftSize;
const dataArray = new Uint8Array(bufferLength);
analyser.getByteTimeDomainData(dataArray);

// draw an oscilloscope of the current audio source
function draw() {
  drawVisual = requestAnimationFrame(draw);
  analyser.getByteTimeDomainData(dataArray);

  canvasCtx.fillStyle = "rgb(200, 200, 200)";
  canvasCtx.fillRect(0, 0, WIDTH, HEIGHT);

  canvasCtx.lineWidth = 2;
  canvasCtx.strokeStyle = "rgb(0, 0, 0)";

  const sliceWidth = (WIDTH * 1.0) / bufferLength;
  let x = 0;

  canvasCtx.beginPath();
  for (let i = 0; i < bufferLength; i++) {
    const v = dataArray[i] / 128.0;
    const y = (v * HEIGHT) / 2;

    if (i === 0) {
      canvasCtx.moveTo(x, y);
    } else {
      canvasCtx.lineTo(x, y);
    }

    x += sliceWidth;
  }

  canvasCtx.lineTo(WIDTH, HEIGHT / 2);
  canvasCtx.stroke();
}

draw();

Specifications

{{Specifications}}

Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}

See also

• Using the Web Audio API