gists/js-programming/bytebeat-render.js

/*
Node.JS: Bytebeat generator

Note: Calls `ffmpeg` to convert output raw audio to a WAVE file

Warning: The current result is quick and dirty. Not for educational or
production purposes.

To-Do: Fix signed bytebeat and floatbeat
*/

const { appendFileSync, unlinkSync, writeFileSync } = require("fs")
const { tmpdir } = require("os")
const { execSync } = require("child_process")
const { basename } = require("path")

let BUFFER_SIZE = 65536 // feel free to change this
const LIGHTNING_MODE = false // disables sequential file write optimization,
//                              feel free to change this

const SAMPLE_RATE = 8000 // feel free to change this
const SECONDS = 30 // feel free to change this
const CHANNELS = 1 // feel free to change this

const FINAL_SAMPLE_RATE = 44100 // feel free to change this
const FINAL_SAMPLE_RATE_CONVERSION = SAMPLE_RATE / FINAL_SAMPLE_RATE / CHANNELS
const SAMPLES = SECONDS * FINAL_SAMPLE_RATE // feel free to change this
const PRODUCT = SAMPLES * CHANNELS
BUFFER_SIZE = LIGHTNING_MODE ? PRODUCT : BUFFER_SIZE

const TYPE_BYTEBEAT = 0
const TYPE_SIGNED_BYTEBEAT = 1
const TYPE_FLOATBEAT = 2

const SELECTED_TYPE = TYPE_BYTEBEAT // feel free to change this

// for bytebeat
const int = x => Math.floor(x)
const abs = Math.abs
const cbrt = Math.cbrt
const cos = Math.cos
const cosh = Math.cosh
const floor = Math.floor
const log = Math.log
const log2 = Math.log2
const PI = Math.PI
const pow = Math.pow
const random = Math.random
const sin = Math.sin
const sinh = Math.sinh
const sqrt = Math.sqrt
const tan = Math.tan
const tanh = Math.tanh

const generateAudio = t => {
	return t&t>>8
}

const constrainValue = sample => {
	switch (SELECTED_TYPE) {
	case TYPE_BYTEBEAT:
		return sample & 255
	case TYPE_SIGNED_BYTEBEAT:
		return ((sample + 127) & 255) - 128
	case TYPE_FLOATBEAT:
		return floor(sample * 127) + 127
	}
}

const random_choice = choices => choices[Math.floor(Math.random() * choices.length)]

const randomFileNameAlphabet =
	"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_-"

const generateRandomFilePath = () => {
	let res = tmpdir() + "/" + basename(__filename) + "_"
	for (let i = 0; i < 64; i++)
		res += random_choice(randomFileNameAlphabet)
	return res
}

let t = 0

let filePath = generateRandomFilePath()
writeFileSync(filePath, Buffer.alloc(0))

// the loop of sequential file writing, created to ease load on RAM
for (let buffer = 0; t < PRODUCT; buffer++) {
	let audioData = new Uint8Array(BUFFER_SIZE)

	let idx = 0
	for (; idx < BUFFER_SIZE && t < PRODUCT; idx++) {
		let sample = generateAudio(t * FINAL_SAMPLE_RATE_CONVERSION)
		if (sample.constructor === Array)
			sample.forEach((sample, index) => {
				audioData[CHANNELS * idx + index] = constrainValue(sample)
			})
		else
			audioData[idx] = constrainValue(sample)
		t++
	}

	if (t >= PRODUCT) {
		let truncatedArray = new Uint8Array(idx)
		truncatedArray.set(audioData.subarray(0, idx))
		audioData = truncatedArray
	}

	appendFileSync(filePath, Buffer.from(audioData.buffer))

	audioData = null
}

execSync(
	`ffmpeg -f u8 -ar ${FINAL_SAMPLE_RATE} -ac ${CHANNELS} ` +
	`-i ${filePath} output_${+new Date()}.wav`)
unlinkSync(filePath)