# Tone.js: Web Audio framework for interactive music in the browser, README overview

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The README presents Tone.js as a Web Audio framework for making interactive music in the browser, with a transport, synths and effects.

Source: https://github.com/tonejs/tone.js

What it supplies: The README presents Tone.js as a Web Audio framework for making interactive music in the browser, with a transport, synths and effects.

Useful for: - Build browser instruments with prebuilt synths and effects.
- Schedule and synchronize musical events with the global transport.
- Load and play samples with Tone.Player.

First action: - Install with npm install tone and import it, or add it from unpkg.com in a script tag.
- Create a Tone.Synth connected to the destination.
- Play a note with triggerAttackRelease, for example C4 for an eighth note.

Prerequisites and limits: The README targets browsers with Web Audio and gives no version.

- The README is a tutorial introduction; the full API is on the linked documentation site, which was not read.
- It covers browser use only.

The README text read states no licence, so check the repository licence file.

Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on opening, install and example README text only; later sections and code were not read. Nothing was installed or run.

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