[Openal] Sound Attributes

[Jason Daly]

Tyhja wrote:
> Hi Daniel and Jason,
>
> Thanks for replying. What i am trying to do is to drive a graphical output
> based on the changing values of the sound input -- something like a sound
> visualisation, if you will. So, you see, i am trying to get the values in
> the wave not the file, to affect my visualisation. Searching through the
> library, it seems i find that there are functions to get values, but they
> are the file values like file frequency 44100 for example. Am i on the right
> track here? I'm sorry if this seems trivial to you, i just started on openAL
> and i greatly appreciate the help so far.
>   

OpenAL isn't what you want for this.  To visualize sound, you probably 
want to either just graphically display the sample values (like sound 
editing software does), or run an FFT on a sliding window, and display 
the resulting frequency domain audio (like sound playing software often 
does).  Either way, there are far better solutions than OpenAL for this.

Of course, if you want to listen to the sound at the same time, OpenAL 
can do that for you quite well :-)

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