Today, I released two recent music tracks along with some audio visualizer video (made in Scratch!) to go with them.
I've never liked only being able to enter an industry if I pay money. For me, I never like to invest at something I'm just trying out. Audio visualizing is one of those things.
So when I made a new music track which I thought might be pretty cool, I didn't want to see it go the same way as my last one... dwindle with a few views because nobody watched it through. :P
Therefore, I made an audio visualizer to go along with it. When I first searched how to do this on Youtube, however, I found myself faced with a few options: Download After Effects and only get a 30-day trial, learn how to use it and then somehow make an okay-quality audio visualizer... learn and use blender to make an audio visualizer that will take a day and a half to render (nothx)... or...
Scratch! Although it's a somewhat long process to make an audio visualizer in Scratch, it's not too hard once you get the hang of it! Here's how I did it:
Firstly, I made lists of certain groups of instruments in FL Studio 11 by muting all of the ones I didn't want. Then, I played those specific instrument groups while recording the "loudness" for that split second in a list corresponding to that instrument group. Then, once I had five lists, I created seven sprites, set two to pulse to the main beat, two to pulse to the secondary beat, and then one for each other list.
Next, I used Microsoft Expression Encoder demo (which can only record up to ten minutes at a time, but I'm not doing more than that so it doesn't really bother me) to take a screen capture of the offline editor fullscreen. I matched the three second delay so that I could record it properly and get my taskbar out of the way. :P (glitches)
Then, I encoded the file into a video, imported into Windows Live Movie Maker, and synced the song to the visualization!
You can check out these two tracks on my music page!
If you'd like to comment, please, as always, keep comments 100% appropriate in order to get approved!
-Scratchifier
So when I made a new music track which I thought might be pretty cool, I didn't want to see it go the same way as my last one... dwindle with a few views because nobody watched it through. :P
Therefore, I made an audio visualizer to go along with it. When I first searched how to do this on Youtube, however, I found myself faced with a few options: Download After Effects and only get a 30-day trial, learn how to use it and then somehow make an okay-quality audio visualizer... learn and use blender to make an audio visualizer that will take a day and a half to render (nothx)... or...
Scratch! Although it's a somewhat long process to make an audio visualizer in Scratch, it's not too hard once you get the hang of it! Here's how I did it:
Firstly, I made lists of certain groups of instruments in FL Studio 11 by muting all of the ones I didn't want. Then, I played those specific instrument groups while recording the "loudness" for that split second in a list corresponding to that instrument group. Then, once I had five lists, I created seven sprites, set two to pulse to the main beat, two to pulse to the secondary beat, and then one for each other list.
Next, I used Microsoft Expression Encoder demo (which can only record up to ten minutes at a time, but I'm not doing more than that so it doesn't really bother me) to take a screen capture of the offline editor fullscreen. I matched the three second delay so that I could record it properly and get my taskbar out of the way. :P (glitches)
Then, I encoded the file into a video, imported into Windows Live Movie Maker, and synced the song to the visualization!
You can check out these two tracks on my music page!
If you'd like to comment, please, as always, keep comments 100% appropriate in order to get approved!
-Scratchifier