files/en-us/web/api/analysernode/getbytetimedomaindata/index.md
{{ APIRef("Web Audio API") }}
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.
getByteTimeDomainData(array)
array
None ({{jsxref("undefined")}}).
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).
const audioCtx = new AudioContext();
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();
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