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setOrientation

Summary

Describes which direction the audio source is pointing in the 3D cartesian coordinate space. Depending on how directional the sound is (controlled by the cone attributes), a sound pointing away from the listener can be very quiet or completely silent. The x, y, and z parameters represent a direction vector in 3D space. The default value is (1,0,0).

Method of apis/webaudio/PannerNodeapis/webaudio/PannerNode

Syntax

var  = PannerNode.setOrientation(x, y, z);

Parameters

x

Data-type
Number

y

Data-type
Number

z

Data-type
Number

Return Value

Returns an object of type NumberNumber

Examples

var audioCtx = new AudioContext();
var panner = audioCtx.createPanner();
panner.setOrientation(1,0,0);

Related specifications

W3C Web Audio API
W3C Editor’s Draft