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#1 2010-06-06 17:04:35
- samurai768
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A Volume Mixer
This morning, I was making an animation,and it had music and graphics and voices, it WAS AWESOME! Sadly, the voices weren't heard over the loud music.
A volume mixer for separate noises would be great!
It could make some things louder, and some things softer.
What do you think?
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#3 2010-06-06 17:18:45
Re: A Volume Mixer
iCode-747 wrote:
You can change the volume, right?
What are these blocks?
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5804 … 7at611.png
Or do these only control instrument volume?
Those control all of the volume, but are global, which means they control all the volume.
The only thing I can think of is to change the volume in another program(Audacity for instance).
But I support! 
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#7 2010-06-06 18:34:52
Re: A Volume Mixer
Yeah, I definitely support - how would it work, though? I can't see a way to make this ultra-easy for users to understand and still be flexible. I guess you could play sounds through "channels" and adjust the volume of each channel, but I still think it would be nice to have the channels merge globally somehow... Thoughts?
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#8 2010-06-06 19:22:15
- samurai768
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Re: A Volume Mixer
coolstuff wrote:
Yeah, I definitely support - how would it work, though? I can't see a way to make this ultra-easy for users to understand and still be flexible. I guess you could play sounds through "channels" and adjust the volume of each channel, but I still think it would be nice to have the channels merge globally somehow... Thoughts?
Well, every time you add a new sound, when you click on the volume mixer it will add another slider for volume, and it will all be one mixer.
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#9 2010-06-06 19:24:55
Re: A Volume Mixer
samurai768 wrote:
coolstuff wrote:
Yeah, I definitely support - how would it work, though? I can't see a way to make this ultra-easy for users to understand and still be flexible. I guess you could play sounds through "channels" and adjust the volume of each channel, but I still think it would be nice to have the channels merge globally somehow... Thoughts?
Well, every time you add a new sound, when you click on the volume mixer it will add another slider for volume, and it will all be one mixer.
Well, I was thinking more along the lines of blocks like "Play sound [x] in channel [y]" And then for every channel you could adjust the volume for - but I like your ideas, too.
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#10 2010-06-06 22:01:19
Re: A Volume Mixer
iCode-747 wrote:
climber59 wrote:
Well if the voices and music were in different sprites the volume blocks could make the music quieter and the voices louder.
The volume blocks control all of the sound.
They control all of the sound of one sprite but not others. You are right if you are talking about online but offline they are sprite based.
Here look at this project (uploaded to mediafire because it wont work online)
http://www.mediafire.com/?nm22hhkdwe2
Last edited by climber59 (2010-06-06 22:04:20)
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#11 2010-06-07 20:18:44
- gettysburg11
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Re: A Volume Mixer
I support, because I would probably end up using this idea in one of my projects, and because it's just a good idea.
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#12 2010-06-08 06:55:02
- MyRedNeptune
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Re: A Volume Mixer
Greatdane wrote:
Those control all of the volume, but are global, which means they control all the volume.
Are you sure? I believe they control the sound on separate sprites. Although, that might only be true for Scratch sound blocks, since I've only ever used the volume blocks for my MIDI projects.
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#13 2010-06-08 07:39:30
Re: A Volume Mixer
MyRedNeptune wrote:
Greatdane wrote:
Those control all of the volume, but are global, which means they control all the volume.
Are you sure? I believe they control the sound on separate sprites. Although, that might only be true for Scratch sound blocks, since I've only ever used the volume blocks for my MIDI projects.
Oh, I'm pretty sure it control the sound for individual sprites - for example, when I start displaying the watcher for the volume, it says "[Sprite Name]'s Volume."
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#14 2010-06-08 10:49:31
- juststickman
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Re: A Volume Mixer
coolstuff wrote:
MyRedNeptune wrote:
Greatdane wrote:
Those control all of the volume, but are global, which means they control all the volume.
Are you sure? I believe they control the sound on separate sprites. Although, that might only be true for Scratch sound blocks, since I've only ever used the volume blocks for my MIDI projects.
Oh, I'm pretty sure it control the sound for individual sprites - for example, when I start displaying the watcher for the volume, it says "[Sprite Name]'s Volume."
I'm pretty sure too...
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#16 2010-06-12 23:00:57
- samurai768
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Re: A Volume Mixer
coka wrote:
Great idea, instead of this,
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5804 … 7at611.png
the blocks could work like:
[change volume of [Meow ▼] by (-10) ]
and
[set volume of [Meow ▼] to (100) %]
and
(volume of [Meow ▼] )
Or even better:
[change volume of sound [Meow ▼] by (10)]
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