Sound Editing, Scoring and Audio Effects
Adding Sound, Music and Foley Effects to your Animation
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Hi all, Just forked out a small fortune (for me) on some digitial sound recording gear. (Zoom H4n and Rode M3 mike) I had planned on just using my iTouch to digitally record dialogue (seemed OK in my tests) but wouldn't be much chop for Foley/SFX. Manufacturer MRP/RRP seemed rather exhorbidant. They wanted to charge $900 for the Recorder and $250 for the mike. Well, as luck would have it, one is not expected to pay MRP/RRP for these items in the music industry and I left the store having paid less than half price - made me feel better anyway Well, tests show that it's like chalk and cheese when comparing the above to my iTouch. Now I just have to lear…
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Ive been searching for a free music maker, and all the ones i find seem to be editors where you just import a file then add effects. Im looking for something similar to GarageBand that works with windows. When i say similar, i mean with the ready made beats etc and just drag and drop. I've tried ejay, and its not quite what im looking for. Any help would be greatly appretiated. Oh, by the way, i have checked previous posts on these forums, and still havent found what im looking for. Thanks Edit -- I dont mind if the music maker isn't free, just let me know the price
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I have visited computer music composition forums and have downloaded trials of flstudio, Acid, PG Music PowerTracks, and others. I have a midi keyboard and would like to get fairly realistic sounding banjo's, fiddle, guitar, harp, etc and would also like good and ambient techno synthesizers. I like flstudio because its easy to assign sound fonts and the synthesizer plugins make some nice sounds. I also want to record live instruments like a violin and mix it with the computer generated music but flstudio doesn't seem to do this too well. I would like the tool to be flexible enough to allow me to be creative and experiment while composing. Anyone care to share t…
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My wife is trying to compile family audio recordings from her relatives. I need to be able to explain to various not-very-computer savvy people how to record audio on their pc's. I've bookmarked this page for the basic info, but do pc's have built-in mic's or do I recommend external mic's? USB or "regular"? I'm open to advice but it needs to be low-level.
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I have been puzzling a bit with a metronoom, to see if it could help me adding some sense to my dance acts. For some reason I can get them only randomly catch a rythm. So after making a metonoom I caught up with another effect. A metronoom has a division of 60 beats per minute. So it is easy to find an animation pose that fits for 1 beat at 30 frames in a second. With 120 beats p/min it would become 2 beats at 30 frames in a second. Then it begins. 88 beats per minute should be possible at 4 beats p/sec, but I can't divide 30 frame in 4. It would become 7.25 frame and that's only possible when I start shortening the act movements. Or I could change the wav length of one …
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I've been trying to combine some short videos to a DVD. My problem is that the files are a different volumes (all MPG) and I wish to make them all the same. I'm sure there must be a way to separate the audio from the video, increase the audio amplitude, and recombine them. I'm sure there must be, but I have not a clue. Anybody have a hint? Thanks, Myron
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Obviously there are a ton of sounds needed in finish animations. Anything from a creaking door to an explosion to a window opening. Almost everything has sound and looking for wavs or even worse free wavs is a pain. What does everyone use to create sounds from scratch? Not compose as im aware of very slick composition software, just effects like mentioned above. P.S i did a search but I dont think mine is working right.
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Im looking for a sound editing program i can use to, well, edit sounds Anyone know of a quality program? ( free or pay) Tony Thanks All
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Hello! This one is an old issue about I have never asked before but always have "worried" to me, here I go: 1.- As you can see in the picture, in a propertly like Volume (in example), if I click over the value, a number box appears waiting for a figure be entered and a little arrow at left appears too. 2.- Then I press that arrow inside the little square and now I can choose between three options: The "Arrow" (for Use cache or other action's value (¿...?)) A "Padlock" (for Constant value). And a "Watch" (for Time-based value). 3.- I choose the "Time-based value" one (the Watch) cause with this I expect/suppose it'll become in an animatable value propertly,…
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I got Adobe Soundbooth with the CS3 suite and I've been learning some about it with online tutorials and help files. Apparently the one thing it can't do is handle multiple tracks. Has anyone here had any experience with it? Am I correct about no multiple tracks or am I overlooking something?
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i want to change a persons voice from a guy to a girls, using adobe audition but i have no idea as how to do this can anyone give me some pointers, or point me towards a website that can help me? ill keep searching and trying
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Hi, Well i have been doing tuts etc im on the say this one regarding lip sync. The Problem is when scrubbing i can not get any sound. but i do get sound when i click on the word or hit play. it just wont play when scrubbing. I have tried pressing the num lock key and using the + - but still no sound. I have am 11.1, windows 7 32bit , 2gb ram, duel core cpu, Sound blaster audigy (pci) and built in soundmax audio in mother board. Win 7 is set to use the sound blaster. Anyone know if V11.1 had problems with scrubbing or is there a fix available? Thank you in advance edited: just disabled the on board audio to make sure its only seeing the sound …
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i ve a software for changing voices and so on. when i did my recording, i recorded in wav formart, now i am trying to change the voices and my voice sotware is in mp3 please can any only help me with a web site that can be used to change wav to mp3 and vice visa. thank you
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I am a relative newbie to AM and I have completed the "Let's Talk" tutorial and did rather well with it. However, I wanted to try and apply that learning to other models and I am not sure what my next step is. I can only find one sound file (secret) to use and I can't seem to find a tutorial on making up my own. Can anyone help me?!?!?!? Thanks Robbin
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I'm working on an animated feature, where the work in being done overseas. (russia) dialog is recorded and edited here in the US and sent to the animator for lip sync. right now we're viewing the animation in avi files. the final renders will be Tiff files, which will be imported to premier or final cut and converted to 29.97 ntsc. SO how do i RE SYNC the audio to the newly assembled animation? The only thing I can think of is to have the russian team create a blank frame up front with a corresponding beep on the sound track file.
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does anyone know any good software for mac that makes the computer speak so it could be used as synch for animated characters? i know there is a tool on OSX but i would need something that works in a phonemic way because i need to have the talking in diff languages (italian, german..) - as far as i know OSX only speaks correct in english.
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I'm trying to convert some of my old cassette tapes/LPs into my hard drive for future animation projects. I googled and stumbled on this http://www.dak.com/Reviews/2020Story.cfm The price is within my reach, but before I invest I wanted to know if anybody uses this product. If not, what product do you use? How much? How do you rate it? Thanks for your time.
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Hi All Although it will probably be a while before im at the stage of recording and creating sounds etc, I was wondering if there was any software that anyone could recomend thats suitable for a Mac? I now that on a PC theres a voice morphing software which from the demo is poor, but I cant see anything that jumps out for a Mac. Also from what ive seen Adobe after affect is used alot, does anyone advise on wether or not its worth a look? Im not at these stages yet, but there will come a time. Thanks Lee
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what are some of the music features in A:M such as, fading out, fading in,slowing down, speeding up, etc....
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Here's a very nice article from VideoMaker Magazine on the use of diegetic sound, what exactly it is and where it can be found: http://www.videomaker.com/article/15797-diegetic-sound In short, if your characters can hear it, it is considered a diegetic sound. Here are a few quick highlights from the article: (Edited considerably from the original text by VideoMaker Contributing Editor Hal Robertson)
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When I import an MP3 file it does show up in the PWS but with the message "MP3 File not fully supported yet" Is there any form of MP3 that is supported? I was trying it because I figured I could drastically reduce the size of a HA:MR file if it had MP3 sound instead of WAV.
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Is there a simple way to change the sound volume while it is played (time based) thanks
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Anyone know of some software I can use to make custom sound fx files?
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Hi All The fallowing are links to "Public Domain" and/or "Creative Commons" licensed Sound FX and Music. I'm not affiliated with any of these links. Hope someone can use them. Sound FX: The Freesound Project Soungle Sound Jay Music: The Internet Archive Public Domain 2 Ten MusOpen Later earthquake
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Hi, guys I've been playing around with wav files for my animations and I'm wondering...is it possible to: 1) record a new voice onto an existing wav file so that 2 voices speak at the same time? (the original Wav only has 1 voice) or 2) achieve this effect in any other way? The wav editor I use is VoiceOn. Any help (or just a "no,you can't do that") would be appreciated. Thanks Adam
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I'm trying to import a wav file, but I get an error message telling me that the file may not be supported? I never had problem with sound before - any ideas?
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i have been trying to upload WAV. files to a new action, and it won't let me upload them, it just says that they are invalid, but they work just fine...... flaw in the animation program???
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In trying to create foot falls for my battlemech I need to repeat the same sound for each foot step. I set up a channel for the left and right foot/ I then tried to copy/paste the sound further down the timeline. says i can copy the sound, but there is no paste function. Is this correct or a bug? Thanks.
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I am working on my Aniamtions. Well learning Animating might be more accurate and I have next to zero experience with sound. I know of daily wave for getting wave files from movies but is there other sites that we can list on this Forum? I also would like to learn how to create some sounds for Animations if possible. Are there any public domain software for creating/making special affect sounds?
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http://www.mediacollege.com/downloads/sound-effects/
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what the heck here's the sound fx for the soda can mdls j POUR_SODA.mp3 OPEN_SODA_.mp3
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Here for no particular reason is a compilation of the Cartoon sounds from an old A:M CD. If there is interest I can also post the Animal and Environmental sets. When I first listened to these sounds all smashed together I thought it'd make a great community project, where everyone grabbed the soundbite of their choice and put appropriate animation with it. Then I realized just how much work that would be... cartoon_mixdown.wav
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