hello there, this is my first message on this board, so please forgive any errors i make etc. I am creating a project that captures sound and uses this to alter the image of a live input (web cam)using the video library and sonia

Here is the code-
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import pitaru.sonia_v2_9.*;
import processing.video.*;

Capture cam;

void setup(){
 size(640,480);
 background(0);
   cam = new Capture(this, 640, 480);
   loadPixels();
 
 frameRate(10);
 Sonia.start(this);
 LiveInput.start(32);
 
}

void draw(){
 background(0);
 LiveInput.getSpectrum();
 
   for(int a=1;a<32;a+=1){
circleStrip(a*20, LiveInput.spectrum[a]);

   }
}

void circleStrip(int stripLoc, float spectrumData){
   
   for (int i = -20; i < height ; i+=20){
int j = stripLoc;
   
noStroke();

int intspectrumdata = int(spectrumData);
 
noStroke();

cam.read();
color d = cam.get(j, i);
 
 fill(d, 50);
 rectMode(CENTER);
rect (j, i , 30 + intspectrumdata, 30 + intspectrumdata);
   
   }
}
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My major problem is that it i am only receiving an image every 7 seconds, and i would preferably have two every second, in order to speed it up i can use less channels (16 instead of 32), or use a faster computer, but i was wandering if anybody knew of a way to speed it up in other ways such as code structure, retaining the image quality,  any help would be greatly appreciated ,

many thanks

(i posted this message in the sound folder and the video folder, sorry if thats frowned upon, i wasn't sure which one to put the message in and am quite needy for the help, sorry again)

Oh my days,
thats been bugging me for ages and now its working far faster,
your better than an iced gem,
thank you very much, because now i can use it live,
cheers

cheers, that sounds about right, its all making a massive improvement, there one more thing, and that is that when the sound gets too loud it chokes the video, and makes it slow down, i'm not sure if theres a way of stopping that happening, but if anybody knows what the problem is or how to fix it that, tips would be ace,

thanks for all the help

adam