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 .

@knowtheatre

When you transition scenes, you possibly have audio playing to the same channels from multiple players. My guess is that you have some audio configuration on your system that doesn't like this change of audio source/routing/mixing.
Can you please take screen captures of your Audio setup in macOS? It doesn't sound like a feedback loop but seems like it must be similar.

@bonemap Hi Russell I used to use Loopback but got into a bit of a mess as it seemed to play sound when I didn't want any! So I removed it to avoid complications. The Multi Output Device actually seems ok re latency when I have buffer set at 128 samples but it causes occasional digital distortion! I suppose I may try Loopback again. As you know I've been using your audio bloom effects which of course respond to frequency bands which I like. Thanks a s always for you expertise. Cheers, David

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

@alice said:

About my Computer

 Is this a laptop?

@dbini said:

<p>You can use the Note Watcher actors. link one to trigger a value of 1 into the speed input of a player, link the other to trigger a value of zero into the same input.</p>

 Thanks a lot! This sounds very elegant and simple. I try this tonight.

@liminal_andy

thank you. I cannot try it out directly right now, because the PC is stationed in an isntallation space. Just to understand you right, VB is acutally something like "soundflower" on Mac? So I route all outgoing sound of isadora to that, and use it as input in Zoom? That way I wouldn't be able to hear the sound myself on my speakers, right?

@woland Yes I think it should be possible to simply record all the content ie the audio and the video.

@bonemap said:

Did you try it? it claims to install an AUv3 plug-in but I could not see it appear inside Isadora.

 I try it yet with the same result but I think it is not an Isadora problem. It doesn't appear in any audio software I use.

You are right with Meldaproduction and it is the same problem by each update. I have also a problem with the aesthetics of the interface but it is common by audio software.

best 

Jean-François

@bonemap

Thanks Russel. Nice work !

Thanks, I have a workaround.

@fred said:

What I meant is like the scene cross fades that exist now where we can set in and out times, except having separate times for audio, allowing for proper more complex scene transitions.

Yes, I understood that. Having separate control of audio and video in fades would make doing this in a complex scene much simpler, I just wanted to give an example of what's currently possible.

@woland thanks!

Explored some more and got some feedback for everyone (still working out the kinks but figured I should report back).  I am currently using VB Virtual Cable which allows to connect virtual sources. I selected the virtual cable on the  audio out field in the NDI Watcher Beta and then selected the same virtual cable in the live inputs. This allowed me to bring the audio from the individual NDI sources to the live inputs in Isadora. Still a few kinks (the separation between the various sources is tenuous because of audio feedback and the responsiveness of the connection requires a couple of restarts) but definitely a work around!

https://vb-audio.com/Cable/

Apparently, a multi-institution push led by Yale University has resulting in Zoom offering a "high quality" audio mode in version 5.2.2. 

This CDM article by Peter Kirn tells you how to take advantage of this new feature which may be important to Isadora users.

Best Wishes,
Mark

https://www.meldaproduction.co...

https://www.meldaproduction.co...

perhaps what you are looking for?

best

Jean-François

Performing some thread necromancy to say that I've just purchased Loopback for a live-streaming show I'm doing on Halloween. It makes audio routing on Mac a complete breeze. Thanks @bonemap  ❤

Best wishes,

Woland

@vidasonik

OK 😞. That's what I see, sort of.

Best Michel

@mc_monte Has been doing a bunch of tricky things with streaming video with synched audio and may have some insight.

@bonemap said:

I would love someone with a good logical mind to give some feedback and perhaps suggest improvements. 

 I look forward to digging into this tomorrow 🙂