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Charlie Gerard

If by tone you mean notes, notes are named frequencies.

The data you get back from the WebAudio API is the frequencies picked up by the microphone copied into a Uint8Array using the getFrequencyByteData method on the AnalyserNode.

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Supun Kavinda

By tone, I meant tone: which makes a C note from violin and piano distinct.

However, I got what you meant. Nice and creative work!

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Josep Jaume Rey

Notes are just particular frequencies that are given a name. In any case, the tone you're using is a bit off.

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Matt Buck

Traditionally, that's referred to as timbre. It's the volume of specific frequencies in a note's harmonic series that account for differences in timbre in pitched instruments. Here's a great video explaining how that works.