Is there a way...

[clientele]

for some sort of flash object to have lights move to audio coming from a channel. For example like in winamp or windows media player visualization?

[Corey]

Yes. You can do it manually in Flash. Or there's at least one automated way I know of. It's in Adobe After Effects, a filter called Audio Spectrum which allows you to export visual representations of your audios frequencies to a .swf file.

I bet there's probably other tools around to help create flash files from waveforms too...

[clientele]

Cool I will try and mess around in Adobe after effects and see what I can come up with. thanks..I will report back.

[Corey]

The cool thing is that it applies the effect to a path, i.e. you can really customize the thing to be part of your overall design... :yes

[clientele]

well I couldnt find anything I was lookin for, only found random lights that flash but I need something to flash with the music real-time..buts thats ok for now. thanks.

[yosik]

I looked for something like that in Flashkit.com and came out with a couple of flash movies. They are at:

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Sound/Music_Ba-Cloudy20-9376/index.php

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Sound/Players/song_con-juergen_-7425/index.php

Good luck.

Actually, you could do something similar in AMS without the use of Flash. Using a transparent .png image, you could link the image size to the volume of the sound, putting that in a fast page timer event.

Yossi

[Corey]

Voila!

http://www.designcontest.net/tutorials/spectrumanalyser/

[AGRO]

I found this link. It is shareware. I messed with it for about 15 min. It generates an array.as file that you link to your .fla to and then import your generated .wav file into your template .fla they provide for you, then play. Kinda buggy.

http://www.handyarchive.com/Audio/Streaming-Audio/11474-Axis-Spectrum-Analyzer.html

[clientele]

Thanks alot I will play with it and let you know if I can fiqure it out

[AGRO]

Well I tried Axis Spectrum Anaylzer and it is nice.

recording example

With spending a little time in SoundForge and playing with the array, I could sync it up alot better, but for just pluging it in it does not do a bad job at all. This program has so much potential.

[biloy01]

hehehehehe

[Corey]

Hmmm, I just watched the Axis sample. It's way out of sync...

[clientele]

Hmmm, I just watched the Axis sample. It's way out of sync...

Yeah I was seeing the same thing