RE: FLASH: Sound Controls

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 09:12 AM 3/1/00 , you wrote:

>Marc,

>Unfortunately, I have to dynamically control all the sound of a 

>site.  From background music

>to sound effects to samples.  What I need is the equivalent of the Lingo 

>"volume" commands.

>Any ideas?


Umm, use Director? Seriously, Flash isn't made for this. You could 

certainly trigger different instances of the same sound, setting the volume 

levels differently for each in the Frame properties box> Sound tab. But the 

sound would have to restart. You could mask the transition with another 

sound, but it's nearly impossible to make it smooth, especially if anything 

else (especially user interactivity) is going on. the only other thing i 

can think of is to use Beatnik. Your visitors will need to have the plug-in 

(standard on new browsers), and you'll have to learn to create and control 

sound in Beatnik. See http://members.tripod.com/NigelR/marc.html for 

Nigel's demo of this. I don't know if you can achieve simultaneous, 

independent volume control of several sounds or if the volume control is 

just for the overall output.


Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media: Specializing in Flash Animation and Digital Audio 

Production

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