I am creating top down game in Pascal for which I want positional sounds. To do this I was going to pass a sound file set at different volumes through each speaker individually, and was going to change the values for the volume as the sound creating object moved around.
However, I cannot find a way to do this, so my question is, is this possible? If yes, how would you go about it? If no, could you show me a more sensible way to control the positional sounds for the game?
Thank you.
Pascal the language? What platform? In any case - OpenAL is probably where you want to start although you may not be able to use Pascal with it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAL
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I'm looking to create this project in processing, however, I'm finding the terminology a bit hard. I'm not sure how to call the effect where the line is staying permanently throughout the song to 'draw' the music data.
I would appreciate any guidance on what tutorials I could look at or an answer from someone.
My aim is to create something as close to this as possible:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb5PTitqtlc&t=58s
Stack Overflow isn't really designed for general "how do I do this" type questions. It's for specific "I tried X, expected Y, but got Z instead" type questions. But I'll try to help in a general sense:
You need to break your problem down into smaller pieces and then take those pieces on one at a time. Write down exactly what you want to happen, in English, and that will be an algorithm that you can think about implementing with code.
Get something simple working. Can you write a simple sketch that plays a song? Then work your way forward in small steps. Can you write a simple sketch that prints out some numeric values based on the song that's playing? Separately from that, can you create a very simple visualization using hard-coded numbers? Get all of that working separately before you think about combining them into a sketch that shows a visualization based on a song that's playing.
Then if you get stuck, you can post a more specific question along with a MCVE. Good luck.
Or even better, how to get the size of the amplitude or the volume of the wave sound every certain time.
In fact I need the two ways, the full waveform and measure it each time. the first one for have a view of the song wave and the second one for visual effects.
this is for Android (NDK) systems.
come on people, I don't ask for the full code answer, I just want you to tell me some advices or something that can help me. You can simply say that the question is hard or makes no sense. but say something.
Whatever, I researched a little bit and I didn't find the answer for the question, but I did find a better solution for the problem, and is a free library named "superpowered", simple, fast, cross-platform, and has all the functions for analize sounds.
hope this help people new to this world of sound programming
Is it possible to add specific reverb to my sound effect/music track in libgdx?
I want to add outdoor/indoor reverb to make all tracks sounded the same.
I don't think that Libgdx has a mechanism to adding effects to sound. The Sound class delivers no function for this.
I see three solutions here:
Prepare two kinds of sounds (one with reverb one without - it is easy to do using software like Audacity - and play one or another due to environment of player's current being
Try to implement it yourself
I see that in the Sound class there is setPitch(long soundId, float pitch) method. Due to Wikipedia the reverb is just a kind of echo so maybe (but not for sure) you could achieve the effect by
making copy of sound
slowering it a little
lowering the volume
playing simultaneously with original sound
Find 3rd part library that will do it for you - the Google returns some examples of libs working with libgdx like SoundTouch Audio Processing Library - maybe you will find something usefull
First one is the easiest and if you are not afraid of space problems I would strongly recommend it to you (althought why not to try implementing it)
I've implemented reverb, positional audio, and arbitrary filters using OpenAL against the latest libgdx 1.10+/lwjgl 3+ with this demo code, based off of gdx-sfx (which only works with lwjgl 2) and libgdx-audio-effects.
I'd like to promote this into a fully fledged library at some point 😂
Here is what i like to achieve:
I like to play around in creating "new" software / hardware instruments.
Sound processing and creation is always managed by software. But one could play the instrument via ultrasonic distance sensor for example. Another idea is to start playback when someone interrupts the light of a photoelectric barrier and so on....
So the instrument would play common sounds, but has to be used in an unusal way. For example, the ultrasonic instrument would play a sound if it detects something in a certain distance. The sound could be manipiulated in pitch for example if the distance gets smaller.
Basically i like to playback a sound sample and manipualte this in realtime.
I guess i have to use WAV samples for this, right? And which programming language do you think fits best for this task?
Edited after kevins hint: please kick me into the right direction - give me a hint where to start.
Thanks in advance
Since you're using the the Processing tag, you can try Processing.
It comes with a sound library like Minim or you can install beads which is great. There's actually a nice book on it: Sonifying Processing
You might find SuperColider fun as well.
The main thing is what are you comfortable with at the moment ?
If Processing syntax looks intimidating, you can actually try a different programming paradigm like data flow. In which case you can use PureData(free, opensource) or MaxMSP(very similar, but commercial). The idea is rather than typing instructions, you connect boxes with wires which is fun and the examples are great too.
If you're into c++ there are plenty of libraries. On the creative side, there's a nice set of libraries called OpenFrameworks that's easy and fun to use. If this is your cup of tea, have a peek at Maximilian.
Bottomline is: there are multiple options to achieve the same task. Choose the best tool for your (based on your background) or try each and see what you like best.
You asked "And which programming language do you think fits best for this task?" - I would also suggest using Processing. I have been used Processing to work with sounds previously. And in all cases I used Minim. It has many UgenS to generate sounds programmatically.
Also, you wants to integrate with some sensors. I'm not sure what types of sensors you will use, but Processing goes pretty well with different Arduino modules and sensors. Check this link for more direction.
Furthermore, you can export your project as .exe or executable .jar files. And their JS version (P5.js) works almost the same as the Java version.
I'm struggling to choose between a vast number of audio programming languages and APIs. I'm very (totally) new to audio programming so please bear with me.
Software
I need to be able to:
Alter volume of different sounds before outputting them to anything (these sounds can have a variety of different origins, for example mp3s and microphone input)
phase shift sounds
superimpose sounds that I have tweaked (as per items 1 and 2)
control the output to each of 8 channels independently of one another
make this all happen on Windows7
These capabilities need be abstracted by a graphical frontend I will probably make myself. What I want to be able to do is create 'sound sources' and move them around a 3D environment along either pre-defined trajectories and/or in relation to the movement of whoever is inside the rig. The reason I want to do pitch bending is so I can mess with red-shift stuff.
I don't want to have to construct full tracks before-hand and just play them. I want the sound that is played to depend on external input from sensors as well as what I am doing on the frontend.
As far as I know this means I cant use any existing full audio making app.
The Question
I've been looking around for for the API or language I should use and I have not turned up a blank, quite the opposite actually. I'm struggling to narrow down my search. A lot of my problem stems from the fact that I have no experience in audio programming.
So, does anyone know off-hand of an API or language that meets my criteria?
Hardware stuff and goals
(I left this until last because I'm not sure how relevant it is)
My goal is to make three rings of speakers at different heights and to have enough control over them to be able to simulate any number of 'sound sources' within the array. The idea is to have someone stand in the middle of the rig and be able to make it sound like there are lots of things moving around them. To get this working I'm planning on doing a little trig and using 8 channels of audio from my PC. The maths is pretty straight forward, it just the rest that I need to worry about
What I want to do next is attach a bunch of cameras to the thing and do some simple image recognition stuff to be able to 'attach sound sources' to different objects. Eg. If someone is standing in the right place it can be made to seem as though all red balls quack like a duck, and all orange ones moan hauntingly.
This is not to detract from Richard Small's answer, but to comment on some of the other options out there:
If you are looking for something higher-level with which you can prototype and develop this faster, you want max/msp or it's open source competitor puredata. These are designed for musicians who are technically minded, but not so much for programmers. As a result, you can build this sort of thing quickly and efficiently.
You also have some lower level options: PortAudio can handle your audio I/O, you would have to do the sound generation and effects and so on on your own or with other libraries. Cinder and OpenFramewoks both provide interfaces for audio, cameras, and other stuff for "creative programming". I'm afraid I don't know if they meet your full requirements, but they are powerful and popular for this sort of thing so I encorage you to look at them.
The two major ones these days tend to be
WWise
WWise Download Link
FMOD
FMOD Download Link
These two engines may even in fact be overkill for what you need, but I can almost guarantee that they will be capable of anything you require.