Hi,

for those who might need a sound player with positional marker points, I enclose a working test patch.

for my latest project I pimped up the sound player actor with Javascript in order to allow jumps to markers and allow a positional slider (like other players as vlc). My new project is completely driven by audio positions of one piece of music. The marker positions drive the whole setting of video and light changes. 

For setup and rehearsal I need to jump to specific positions in the music. So I designed the marker actor to jump to the exact position, and also to jump to the position 2 seconds before the marked position.

For testing purpose I extracted the relevant parts of the patch and added simple projections as proof of concept. Just use an audio file of your flavor and have fun with test sound player advance .

@luis_mcdowell

See @jfg 's answer above: https://community.troikatronix.com/topic/8402/answered-audio-and-movie-players-elapsed-or-remaining-time/8The zoom controls at the bottom right of the Scene Editor/Control Panel let you zoom the Scene Editor or Control Panel in or out, so you could zoom in to make it bigger. The keyboard shortcut is "Cmd and +" to zoom in on macOS and "Ctrl and +" to zoom in on Windows. The zoom options also exist at the bottom of the "View" menu.

You can also change the default font size of Actors and Controls to make all that text bigger if you go to Isadora > Preferences > General tab (the first one) > User Interface > Actor/Control Font Size

I still missing a position input in the Sound Player like in the movie player.

Best regards, 

Jean-François 

@dbini

Yes! Thank you!

This helps a lot.

Hi,

we had an Isadora Workshop in Salzburg last week, where we experimented on various topics. One question was, how to distribute Audio to different channels of an 8-channel sound interface, for example to send it like in a circle to the speakers with variable speed.

I enclose a patch, which includes 

+ 8 different sounds with a master volume

+ a stereo audio file distributing to 8 speakers, with separate volume faders and a master volume

+ a stereo audio file, distributed around on 8 speakers, with variable times (time per speaker, crossfade time and time to step to the next speaker)

Maybe it's helpful for some of your projects. We made some tests today, it works fine.

Cheers, Gunther

test 8 channel sound

Re: [Sound Discussion](/topic/5930/sound-discussion)

I am guessing that audio input channel assignment is on the to do list for development. I am trying a few things with audio in Isadora 3.0.8 and wanted to check if there are any workarounds for frequency or audio channel assignment and analysis.

I had the thought to attempt to implement a series of 'click tracks' for audio interactivity. This thought involved the export of separate sound layers from a DAW project file to a series of instrument tracks for analysis in Isadora. The tracks are triggered concurrently to then mix using the new audio output channel assignment in the Sound Player - all good so far. 

In terms of assigning input channels for analysis e.g. Sound Frequency Watcher, it appears to get a lot more limited.

I could see multiple tracks of loopback input from a multichannel audio device but only within a single Isadora Live Capture Setting input channel assignment with no way of analysing the multi-tracks individually. 

I was able to implement one click track at a time using AUAudioFIlePlayer routing to AuAudioDeviceOutput with a loopback while other instrument tracks were routed to the new audio interface output. Without the Au plugins I could not see a way to route a loopback input with the new Sound Player. I think moving forward I would want to see an option for the SoundPlayer to select an output so that its audio could be used for loopback.

There may be other ways of doing this that I am missing?

Best Wishes

Russell

Hi.

There are also these threads that includes examples of the SoundPlayer multichannel audio routing:

https://community.troikatronix.com/topic/6108/multi-channel-audio-beyond-straight-routing-with-soundplayer-or-movieplayer?_=1601932510936

https://community.troikatronix.com/topic/6195/new-how-to-article-playing-movies-with-multichannel-audio-on-macos?_=1601898416350

Best wishes

Russell

Thanks Michel!

@gaba
Please open a support ticket (link in my signature).

I have just tested the Sound Player with a wav file in Isadora 2.5.2 and it is working as expected on my system.
So I suspect we will need to look a little deeper at your system config.