James Long posted an excellent article on his blog about iOS 6′s Web Audio API that theoretically be an alternative to the Apple App Store for iOS music apps. The question I’m wondering is if apps that you “Add to your homescreen” can interact with App Store apps through things like Virtual MIDI, assuming the app had Virtual MIDI support itself… Anybody developers know?
This is not possible at the moment. Although the web audio api is nearly features complete, MIDI is not included in this draft.
Fortunately there is web midi. There is hot discussion about that topic since a few month on the W3C mailing list. This is what they came up with so far:
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/audio/raw-file/tip/midi/specification.html
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Yup, MIDI.
At the moment, mobile safari also doesn’t support any sort of realtime capture from the mic. We’re also still waiting for stuff like access to the file system. For saving projects, the Dropbox API might work but that might be an awfully long wait every time you wanted to work on something you’d saved, particularly with things like multi-trackers. Loading (4) 3 minute wav files isn’t quick!
I’m stoked on this stuff but it will be a while before we can get to parity with native apps. That said, there are a lot of wonderful things people can make and use right now with mobile safari and some of the html5 APIs.
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