Posts Tagged ‘Sound’
Unity: Making a simple audio visualization
Posted by Dimitri | Filed under Programming
As stated in the title, this Unity programming tutorial shows how to create a simple audio visualizer. This post focuses on explaining the necessary requirements in obtaining the audio data from the current music being played, and how to process this data to create a audio visualization. It won’t have detailed explanations on how to create a specific effect for an audio visualization. The code featured below and the example project were created and tested in Unity 3.5.2 .
For this post, the audio spectrum data will be displayed as a line using a LineRenderer component and will also feature some cubes that will fall from the top of the waveform, much like the little white bars above the spectrum found on the Windows Media Player “Bars” visualization. However, this visualization will be 3D and not 2D and will render a waveform and not bars.
To achieve that, a script and the following elements will be required: (more…)
Android: changing the ringer volume
Posted by Dimitri | Filed under Programming
Another Android tutorial, this time, explaining how to change the different sound volumes of the Android system, such as the ringer, music and notification loudness. The source code featured below is available for download at the end of the post.
Using a seek bar to control audio’s volume in Android is a lot like changing the screen brightness with a seek bar. However, instead of using a ContentResolver to obtain the service that controls the audio, Android has a class that makes everything easier, named AudioManager. So, the example here will basically obtain a reference to the AudioManager and will use it to get the current ringer volume and use it to set the progress of a seek bar. When changed, the seek bar progress will set the value of the sound volume. Here is the code: (more…)