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spazy_t

sound reactive visuals
Feb 17^th, 2006, 12:01am

Hello all, this is probably gonna be a complicated post especialy as im a complete novice at processing, but i have been directed to processing to make a soundreactive piece for my degree. Basically i want to make some visuals react to sound coming in from a microphone into the computer (ie the inbuilt mic). I want the sounds to manipulate the image, but can i create the image in another programme eg flash/director, or do i have to make the images in processing as well.

If I can make the images in another programme, do i need to import processing in to that programme, or import the images into processing.

The other thing i seem to be having a hard time with is finding some sort tutorials to do this.

If anyone can help me with the large and complex problem it would be massivley appreciated. Cheers.

TomC

Re: sound reactive visuals
Reply #1 - Feb 17^th, 2006, 12:14am

First of all, Processing doesn't have effective sound manipulation built in, so you'll need a library - either Ess or Sonia will do what you want. Sonia works best for live input from a microphone or another sound source like iTunes or Winamp. Look at the examples for those libraries to see how to get access to the sound analysis.

Sonia is here: http://sonia.pitaru.com/
Ess is here: http://www.tree-axis.com/Ess/

There's an example Sonia applet which does some simple graphics based on microphone/sound input.

There's an example Ess applet which loads an mp3 file and does some analysis.

It sounds like you haven't used Processing at all yet though? Is this a project to learn Processing, or to learn sound analysis, or to produce sound-reactive visuals?

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spazy_t

Re: sound reactive visuals
Reply #2 - Feb 18^th, 2006, 2:36pm

Thanks loads for this 'TOMC'. Your quite right in that i have never used processing, apart from a quick look at some example sketches on the site. But im trying to make sound reactive visuals, its just something i have wanted to do for some time and i have only recently been advised to use processing.

Sorry if this cry for help has been a bit anoying, im just used to using proggrames that do alot of the coding for me and only have to change the code when im trying to make something a little bit complex.

Thanks again.

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